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  • Disruption-Proof: How Entire Sectors Avoid Transformation

    There used to be a question posed when Amazon first began eating into entire sectors – such as cloud computing, groceries, streaming video, and healthcare. Where won’t Amazon go? Is any sector Amazon-proof? Today’s question is where won’t disruption go?… Continue reading

    Disruption-Proof: How Entire Sectors Avoid Transformation
  • Does Regulation Really Stifle Innovation?

    Last week I did a presentation to a group of managers when the issue of governance and regulation ‘getting in the way’ of innovation came up. People often think regulations stifle innovation, new business and services. They assume that regulators… Continue reading

    Does Regulation Really Stifle Innovation?
  • Four Factors Hindering Transformation

    The problem with good service design is that you don’t notice it. It’s only when you experience truly bad design that you appreciate the good stuff. That’s why so few organisations are design led. They focus on designing out the… Continue reading

    Four Factors Hindering Transformation
  • What We Can Learn From The Oldest Companies in The World

    Shigemitsu Kongo, a Japanese Buddhist temple builder, formed his construction company Kongo Gumi in in 578 AD. His company built relationships with their customers that lasted for 1,400 years, surviving through many wars and natural disasters,  just like their temples. It… Continue reading

    What We Can Learn From The Oldest Companies in The World
  • Why We Solve The Wrong Problems

    Everywhere I look I see organisations and people investing heavily in new initiatives, transformation, and change programmes.  And in almost every case the goals will never be met. One of the most crucial causes of the failure? The right questions were… Continue reading

    Why We Solve The Wrong Problems
  • Building Trust and Standing Out in the Digital Age

    In many ways the events of 2016 are less a surprise and more the logical outcome of what we already knew. As I wrote early last year – we are in an era of ‘trust deficit’ – where more people distrust institutions… Continue reading

    Building Trust and Standing Out in the Digital Age
  • What if Uber did health, housing and social care?

    If you’ve been to a conference in the past 12 months – you’ll almost certainly have seen the slide above, or a version of it. Mentioning “disruptive innovation” adds a sprinkle of sophistication to otherwise ordinary presentations. It’s a sit up… Continue reading