The Tata Values — driving Brand and Ethics for Prosperity Nov 23, 2014 Value Creation From Rich Karlgaard: Prosperity, of course, isn’t caused by government. It’s brought about by entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial companies. Few Developmental Evaluation — compliments a Adaptive Innovation Process Jul 16, 2014 Value Creation Social problems are in general complex in comparison to complicated and simple problems as formulated by David Snowden. We have to use an adaptive How to Stay on Track With Your Strategy? Apr 22, 2014 Systems & Value Creation Now that your strategy is ready to be implemented how do you know that it is being implemented as planned and you are not being distracted by the Jeff Bezos Latest Annual Letter (2014): Focus on Customers and Innovation Apr 13, 2014 Value Creation Buffett said that reading annual letters of organisations around the world is a good learning exercise. This one from Jeff Bezos is a good one. One How Caring Brings Out the Best in You: Seth Godin Mar 26, 2014 Value Creation & Value Delivery From Seth: Instead, the restaurant makes the menu longer instead of figuring out how to make even one dish worth traveling across town for. We add Tesla’s Most Disruptive Product May Not Be Its Electric Cars Mar 12, 2014 Value Creation Tesla and Musk have been fascinating for many years now. Joh McDuling writes in QZ about Tesla’s new batteries plant, the Gigafactory. Tesla has The Meaning of Design Jan 20, 2014 People & Value Creation Ben @ Stratechery writes eloquently about what design thinking is. It’s key to innovation and creating value to customers. All our work, whether Understanding the Knowledge Funnel to Reinvent Your Organisation Jan 16, 2014 featured & Value Creation The mighty business models of giants like Home Depot failed when they entered China. One of the main reasons was the lack of empathy with customers Why Foreign Retailers Stumble in China: Lack of Empathy Jan 15, 2014 Value Creation & Value Delivery Why did the might Home Depot and other retailers, very successful in the US and Canada, fail in China. Anil Gupta and Haiyan Wang explain in the The “C” of Strategy Jan 9, 2014 featured & People & Value Creation Strategy is about choices. These choices are not easy to make and the question that comes through always is where do you start. There are basically The Abandonment Question Jan 8, 2014 Humanomics & Systems & Value Creation In a series of questions that every organisation needs to ask itself, we looked at the purpose question. Now we look at Abandonment. The 5 Questions Every Company Should Ask Itself Jan 6, 2014 Value Creation IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION, YOU DISCOVER NOTHING. — W. Edwards Deming, American statistician and expert on innovation Reading Strategy Is Non-Linear Jan 5, 2014 Quote & Value Creation When I discuss strategy it is not always easy to present the idea. An analogy is always useful. Here is a good one by Nino Lancette in Medium. By Is the Age of Efficiency Over? Jan 4, 2014 Humanomics & People & Systems & Value Creation & Value Delivery The new year always brings in new thoughts and new plans for me. What about you? What are you thinking about changing in this new year? And, Happy Design for the Market Nov 27, 2013 Humanomics & Value Creation Paul Polak writing at the Unreasonable Institute. It bears repeating: the appropriate technology movement died because it was led by Insights for Designing Your Strategy Oct 3, 2013 featured & Value Creation Greg Githens is writing some stuff on Strategy with a lot of clarity. Somebody you should follow if you are interested in Strategy. On Insights: Business Model Innovation at Large Organisations Sep 30, 2013 People & Value Creation & Value Delivery HBR on why large organisations struggle at business model innovation: Lack of top management support and attention Unlike other innovations, Theory of the Business. Sep 26, 2013 Humanomics & Value Creation Drucker suggested that every organisation has a theory of its business. It consists of its understanding of the environment including customers and Go Outside for Strategy Sep 26, 2013 People & Value Creation I am facilitating strategy workshops and consulting for organizations in the social sector and in my view for Strategy the most important Empathy As a Starting Point for Innovation Sep 11, 2013 Humanomics & People & Value Creation Dana Silvers writing on design thinking and empathy. This matches up exactly with what we do at TACSI. I discussed how Strategy and Innovation in Why Seeing Is Succeeding? Sep 11, 2013 Value Creation Kim & Mauborgne, authors of Blue Ocean Strategy talks about the value of understanding customers for creating a good strategy. Exactly what I do Strategy for Impact - Starts With Understanding Customers Sep 10, 2013 Value Creation The Strategy for a not for profit needs to be absolutely focussed on impact. At the service innovation level, we do that by using co-design to work Value Innovation Sep 10, 2013 Value Creation In Strategy understanding non-customers and current customers by listening to them and understanding their “job to be done” is one of the keys to Paul Witkay on the Ten Types of Innovations Aug 26, 2013 archetypes & innovation & startup & Value Creation It is not the types or its validity that I am interested but the ability to provide “archetypes”, to provide heuristics for business models which is Scientific Management or Scientific Method Aug 26, 2013 Value Creation The key to invention is not more data, but more exploration and inspiration. What happens after that? The scientific method takes over. Hypothesis, Business Model Innovation - Learning From Nonprofits, Really? Aug 21, 2013 Value Creation The Boston Consulting Group discusses ten lessons from non profits that can be learned by the business community. The focus is on reframing problems Why Does Co-Design Work? Aug 21, 2013 Value Creation One thing we have learnt is that using co-design techniques we can solve complex issues through conversations rather than analytical and data driven Growth Hacking the Tempo Way Aug 21, 2013 Value Creation From Pando Daily (H/T, Eric Ries) In growth hacking, marketing meets product development with the purpose of attracting and retaining more product The Difference Incubator Aug 21, 2013 Humanomics & Value Creation I had a great chat with Bessi Graham, the CEO of the Difference Incubator in Melbourne about their incubator program for social enterprises. The Experiments for Innovation Aug 21, 2013 Quote & Value Creation Here is what Bezos says: “We’ve tried to create tools to reduce the cost of doing experiments so that we can do more of them. If you can increase Humanomics Manifesto Aug 7, 2013 Value Creation The Why What and How of Humanomics In starting this blog, I wrote about Humanomics and my journey into this and why I am doing what I am doing. Thinking Time and Place Aug 7, 2013 Value Creation Thinking time is critical for creativity and innovation. We cannot be filling our calendar with meetings and planned work. You need to have some Jeff Bezos and the Great Project Aug 6, 2013 Humanomics & Value Creation Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com bought the Washington Post yesterday for $250 million. This is an interesting development, far more The Power of a Story to Communicate Value Aug 6, 2013 Value Creation I like the definition that Saul Kaplan uses in his book The Business Model Innovation Factory, about what a business model is. He says, A business Understanding and Inventing Business Models for Social Change Aug 1, 2013 Value Creation & Value Delivery Tremendous amount of work is being undertaken in understanding business models in the corporate world. At the same time to invent new ones. Digital Disruption - Buying the Book Shows the Disruption Aug 1, 2013 Value Creation I was checking out this book on Digital Disruption. As I do, I first go to Amazon and see what the reviews are and then think about where to buy. Do Business Models for Social Change Jul 22, 2013 Humanomics & Value Creation In 2006 I was doing my MBA and as part of my marketing course I came across the work of Henry Chesbrough in his book Open Innovation. He introduced B Corp - Is This the Organisation of Change? Jul 18, 2013 Humanomics & Value Creation So what is a business? It is about making money? Is it about serving customers? Is it about serving owners or in this current world, shareholders? Pfizer’s Focus on Business Model Innovation Jul 13, 2013 Humanomics & Value Creation As I am talking to businesses and people who work with businesses, it is getting clear that business model innovation is the clear focus for many Power of Positive Deviance Jul 3, 2013 Value Creation This is an important and powerful idea that we at TACSI use as part of our work. A review at SSIR by Dean Karlan, a professor of economics at Yale Lecturing Birds on How to Fly Jun 30, 2013 Value Creation Nassim Taleb discussing about the concept of Anti-Fragile and the importance of trail and error Rule 4: Trial and error beats academic knowledge Efficiency and Care Are Not the Same Jun 28, 2013 Value Creation Great post by Mark Addleson on the problems with efficiency: Put these problems down to the desire for greater efficiency, rather than better Failure and the Culture of Silicon Valley Jun 27, 2013 Quote & Value Creation Cushman at Hacker News on the thinking behind the people working in silicon valley This applies to Silicon Valley in general, I think. We take