How-I-help-clients
July 2, 2019
I drive transformation and build businesses by bringing together the capabilities needed to help organisations grow and ...
A Use Case for AI/ML
December 11, 2019
Advances in computational power, together with an ability to store vast amounts of data, have resulted in staggering bre...
Why Some Platforms Thrive and Others Don’t
December 29, 2019
In 2016, Didi became the world’s largest ride-sharing company, reaching 25 million trips a day in China and surpassing...
When Patients Become Innovators
January 10, 2020
Health care consumers are contributing their skills, money, and time to develop effective solutions that aren’t availa...
Train Your People to Think in Code
January 15, 2020
Taking a code-centered approach to work will benefit organizations in three ways. Today, most companies equate doing ana...
Three keys to faster, better decisions
January 10, 2020
Decision makers fed up with slow or subpar results take heart. Three practices can help improve decision making and conv...
The value of freeing ideas, not just locking them up
December 20, 2019
We can have both innovation and equality, say Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh There is a growing view that technology inher...
The most powerful person in Silicon Valley
December 18, 2019
Billionaire Masayoshi Son–not Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Mark Zuckerberg–has the most audacious vision for an AI-powe...
The 10 worst technologies of the 21st century
January 14, 2020
You’d think it would be easy to come up with a list of bad technologies from the past couple of decades. But we had a ...
Strategy Needs Creativity
January 9, 2020
I’ve noticed that business school students often feel frustrated when they’re taught strategy. There’s a gap betwe...
Strategic-principles-for-competing-in-the-digital-age
August 2, 2019
Digitization is rewriting the rules of competition, with incumbent companies most at risk of being left behind. Here are...
Seventy years of highs and lows in the history of machine learning
January 13, 2020
From the birth of the phrase “artificial intelligence” to the eve of quantum supremacy. 1950 The Imitation Game Alan...
Put Purpose at the Core of Your Strategy
January 8, 2020
Eight years ago we launched a global study of high growth in companies, investigating the importance of three strategies...
Project Planning Outcomes
September 1, 2020
Application Project Planning Outcomes High Level User Story: Detailed User Stories & Functional Specifications: Comp...
People and Machines: Partners in Innovation
December 21, 2019
The greatest impact of intelligent technologies won’t be from eliminating jobs but from changing what people do and dr...
Mobility’s second great inflection point
November 19, 2019
There’s a well-known quote attributed to Henry Ford that he actually never said but that historians confirm he almost ...
Learning to Work with Intelligent Machines
December 28, 2019
It’s 6:30 in the morning, and Kristen is wheeling her prostate patient into the OR. She’s a senior resident, a surge...
From disrupted to disruptor: Reinventing your business by transforming the core
June 1, 2019
Companies must be open to radical reinvention to find new, significant, and sustainable sources of revenue. When Madonna...
Finding-your-technology-sweet-spot
September 2, 2019
The potential impact of digital technology varies widely by industry, but most enterprise leaders share an important cha...
Data Science Can’t Fix Hiring (Yet)
January 16, 2020
Recruiting managers desperately need new tools, because the existing ones—unstructured interviews, personality tests, ...
Creativity and AI: The Next Step
January 12, 2020
Combining two types of machine intelligence could open new frontiers of art In 1997 IBM’s Deep Blue famously defeated ...
Coronavirus disrupts digital advertising budgets
March 11, 2020
With ad spend expected to fall in many sectors, media buyers share what they’re seeing on the ground. Analysts exp...
Building the AI-Powered Organization
December 30, 2019
Artificial intelligence is reshaping business—though not at the blistering pace many assume. True, AI is now guiding d...
Blitzscaling 01: Overview of the Five Stages of Blitzscaling
October 2, 2020
A group of entrepreneurs taught a class at Stanford called “Technology-enabled Blitzscaling ” and this is my attempt...
Bias busters: Knowing when to kill a project
January 11, 2020
You’re keen on encouraging innovation and letting a thousand flowers bloom, but how do you sort the weeds from the see...
A Structured Approach to Strategic Decisions
January 9, 2020
Reducing errors in judgment requires a disciplined process. Envision the following situations: A board of directors cons...
7 Steps to Successful Project Management – Infographic
December 17, 2019
Some time ago we highlighted the most popular mistakes that may ruin even the most successful project so that everybody ...
19-marketplace-tactics-for-overcoming-the-chicken-or-egg-problem
October 2, 2019
As investors and advisors in over 60 early-marketplace startups, we’ve paid close attention to what it takes to ge...
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2019
December 30, 2019
How we’ll invent the future, by Bill Gates We asked Gates to choose this year’s list of inventions that will change ...