Posts by George Veth
Systems Thinking Powers Bionic Success
Google has turned 23. Amazon is 27; Facebook, 17. Apple has produced 12 generations of the iPhone since 2007. How do digital natives grow from nothing to become the world’s most valuable companies at such young ages while the largest legacy firms place massive bets on digital transformation and make only incremental progress? The question…
Read MoreCalculating complexity: Maximizing the value of customization
New tools that help pinpoint complexity’s cost—and where it comes from—can help companies make better tradeoffs in managing product portfolios.
Read MoreHow To Tell a Compelling Story With Data
3 Steps To Turn Any Data Analysis Into a Memorable Story
Read MoreThe secret recipe for organizational culture is no recipe
Culture emerges from a variety of ingredients within your organization, and cookie-cutter approaches won’t get it right.
Read MoreInnovative Work Cultures Know the Difference Between ‘Leader’ and ‘Manager’
Managers and leaders can be one and the same, but not every manager is equipped with the leadership skills that help fuel a high-purpose company culture.
Read MoreHow to Build the Organizational Culture of Your Dreams
This is a reprint of a story I wrote several years ago. It points to the attributes of great teams and great organizational culture and I am both inspired and pleased to share it with you again here. That said, there are a few things that I have learned since the original writing that are…
Read MoreResearch: How to Get Better at Killing Bad Projects
Most innovation managers know that few of their initiatives will succeed, so they keep multiple projects running at the same time and create processes for quickly separating winners from losers. One popular way to make decisions about what stays and what goes is the use of stage gates. Yet, even with stage gates, firms struggle to…
Read MoreIt’s time for businesses to chart a course for reinforcement learning
An advanced artificial intelligence technique is quickly becoming accessible to organizations as a tool for speeding innovation and solving complex business problems.
Read MoreTop Articles on Strategy Execution – March 2021
This is adaptable’s Top Ten list and Month-in-Review post for March 2021. Enjoy!
Read MorePrepared Minds
A well-planned strategy session helps key players to thoroughly understand the status quo and their organization’s place in it. With this knowledge, executives are ready to chart new directions for their organization when opportunity knocks.
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