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Disrupting healthcare – putting it in the hands of consumers
We have all read commentary on the need for disrupting healthcare, of the concept of consumer-centered care, and that AI and digital health...
The 30-second vision guide
The 30-second vision guide: Visions are goals, you need a goal before you have a strategy. These goals can be for any horizon – from long term lofty...
Are we under-estimating the term ‘customer’
The term customer is the flavor of the decade - customer experience, customer service, voice of the customer, customer-led, customer-centric and so...
Resources
The customer retention funnel
The customer retention funnel Proactive retention focuses on creating the right experience to build loyalty. Reactive retention focuses on the...
Defining innovation horizons
Defining innovation horizons Using the three horizons and three boxes helps define the execution challenge ahead - improving, expanding, divesting...
The Era of “Move Fast and Break Things” Is Over – HBR
LINK HERE >> FROM HBR There is so much to like in this article: diversity, impact, growth, evolution, regulation ... and a favorite for me:...
Recommended books:
Here are my TOP 10:
These Amazon links are all books in my own reading library:
- Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs
- Business Model You: A One-Page Method For Reinventing Your Career
- The Lean Startup– Eric Reis
- Business Model Generation – Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
- The Three-Box Solution – Govindarajan, Vijay
- Blue Ocean Strategy – Kim, W. Chan; Renée Mauborgne
- Value Proposition Design: – Strategyzer
- Testing Business Ideas: A Field Guide for Rapid Experimentation
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
I have all these too:
- Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model (Mullins, John; Komisar, Randy; Mullins, John; Komisar, Randy)
- Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills, and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation (Van Der Pijl, Patrick; Lokitz, Justin; Solomon , Lisa Kay; Van Der Pijl, Patrick; Lokitz, Justin; Solomon , Lisa Kay)
- Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma, Second Edition (O’Reilly, Charles A.; Tushman, Michael L.)
- The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth (Clayton; Christensen, Clayton M.; Michael; Raynor, Michael E.)
- Brand Asset Valuation A Complete Guide – 2020 Edition (Blokdyk, Gerardus)
- 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era (Merchant, Nilofer)
- Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price (Ramanujam, Madhavan; Tacke, Georg)
- HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy (including featured article ‘What Is Strategy?’ by Michael E. Porter)
- The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist’s Guide to Success in Business and Life (Dixit, Avinash K.; Barry J. J. Nalebuff)
- Strategic Storytelling: How to Create Persuasive Business Presentations (McKinsey, Dave)
- Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate Change (Ertel, Chris; Solomon, Lisa Kay)