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Connected Strategy is practical and relevant—but starts too late. It optimizes customer relationships after someone is already visible as a buyer. But people don’t start with a product; they start with friction. This piece contrasts Connected Strategy with Jobs to be Done thinking—arguing that innovation must begin with hidden needs, not observed behaviour.

Most companies treat innovation like emergency care—reactive, costly, and often too late. This article explores why early, preventive innovation leads to better outcomes. Using a healthcare metaphor, it shows how to invest before the crisis hits, spot weak signals, and build long-term adaptability into your business model. Shift from survival mode to sustained vitality.

Innovation funding often fails not due to weak ideas, but unclear internal contracts. Innovation teams face cuts when they don’t fit core business logic. To survive, innovation needs dedicated funding, fit-for-purpose metrics, and strategic mandates. It must be seen not as cost, but as market intelligence. Rethink who pays—and what returns matter across types of innovation.

Many claim to coach or lead startups without ever having built one. This post explores why real leadership is contextual, lived—not just learned—and why knowing your “phase fit” is key to making a real impact.

Everyone talks about it. Few mean it. Even fewer do it. Real innovation demands risk, urgency — and entrepreneurs, not internal tourists. 👉 Why most corporate labs fail — and what it takes to build for real.

"Be a pirate!" sounds cool—until you realise companies don’t want pirates. They want control. Real innovators aren’t outlaws; they’re entrepreneurial traders. Pirates burn bridges. Traders build trade routes. Pirates get hunted. Traders change systems from within. So ask yourself: Do you want to be a pirate—or build the future? 🏴☠️ or 🚢

Many companies benchmark their innovation efforts within their industry — falling into the trap of the Handorgel Effect. This article explains why real innovation requires breaking away from the industry's rhythm and benchmarking against the outsiders aiming to disrupt your market.

Why 'Fail Fast' is overrated: real innovation comes from smart experiments, not glorified mistakes. Test smarter, not harder.

Skype’s rise and fall shows the limits of network effects — from global verb to sunset product, its legacy shaped how we communicate today.

How to ignite network effects on your platform: overcome the cold start and build the foundation for scalable, self-reinforcing growth.

Exclusivity sparks growth, but sustaining quality at scale defines survival. Clubhouse shows how fast network effects can flip.

Discover how innovation frameworks evolve by integrating tools and processes into holistic systems for continuous growth and validation.

Innovators are turning to Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Google Bard, Microsoft Bing, Meta's LLaMa, and others to speed up tasks

SMEs can thrive by leveraging agility, digital tools & customer focus—disrupting markets where big players fail to adapt.

Kill assumptions before they kill your business. Innovation isn't about ideas—it's about firing the wrong ones fast.

Many companies build their business models like massive castle walls: solid, proven, and designed for long-term returns. These walls can end

For nearly two decades, companies have used frameworks like McKinsey’s “Three Horizons” model to manage innovation activities and allocate r

Over the past two decades, companies have embraced the need for Digital Transformation. Driven by technologies, social and political changes

Innovation is not just measured by what you achieve, but by how you achieve it. It's the alignment of strategy with culture, Running a start

Startups fail. That’s not news. What’s surprising is how many people misinterpret failure. Instead of seeing it as a necessary step in the e