Book Summary: From Strategy to Execution
I was recently sent a summary of a 2008 book, "From Strategy to Execution: Turning Accelerated Global Change into Opportunity" by Daniel Pantaleo and Nirmal Pal (Springer). It is ridiculously expensive, but you can buy it now from Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com or...
The Difference: 2000 & 2010
This post was first published on Pete Laburn's blog in Dec 2010 10 years ago, futurists were saying that ‘In five to ten years 80% percent of of what drives the world will be driven by continuations, 15% of what we have will be driven by cycles and 5% will be driven...
Time for remorse and apology for banks is past – or is it?
Yesterday, Bob Diamond, Barclays Bank's CEO came before a parliamentary committee in London. As part of his submission, and when talking about banker's bonuses and salaries, he said that the time for "remorse and apology" by banks over their role in the financial...
Improve your presentation skills – by reading this superb book
A fellow professional speaker and mate, Graham Davies, has written one of the best books I've ever read on presentation skills. It's "The Presentation Coach: Bare Knuckle Brilliance For Every Presenter" (Capstone). Buy it now at Amazon.co.uk or Kalahari.net if you're...
Ideafood’s top 11 marketing trends for 2011
Dan Wallace is the founder of Ideafood, a consultancy that focuses on increasing sales and profitability. I was interested in two things he put yesterday. Firstly, he did a quick online poll of his clients and colleagues about how they plan to spend marketing budgets...
The 5 Most Dim-Witted Leadership Strategies
Today's post was inspired by The 8 Stupidest Management Fads of All Time and The 5 Dumbest Management Concepts of All Time by Geoffrey James. I would respectfully disagree with some on his lists but I did enjoy his provocative perspectives. Geoffrey's articles got...
The Invitation of the Blank Page
The turning of the page from one year to the next invites both reflection on the year lived and aspirations for the year to come. Surveying the script on the worn and dog-eared pages of the past year invites reflection on the good and bad; the ups and downs; the...
Strategic Intuition – A Brief Summary
This post was first published on Pete Laburn's blog in Feb 2010 Have you ever wondered how some people come up with their great ideas, and wished you knew how to do the same? William Duggan’s book, ‘Strategic Intuition’ is about the discipline of great idea...
Mobilitate – a great ‘better South Africa’ web 2.0 initiative
@chazzie001 sent me this link to Mobilitate via Twitter over the weekend. It's a South African initiative aiming to form communities to give feedback to various layers of government in a multitude of categories. Both positive and negative. It's run by a crowd called...
Mobilitate – a great 'better South Africa' web 2.0 initiative
@chazzie001 sent me this link to Mobilitate via Twitter over the weekend. It's a South African initiative aiming to form communities to give feedback to various layers of government in a multitude of categories. Both positive and negative. It's run by a crowd called...
Kindle, digital rights management and clippings limits
My business partner, Barrie Bramley recently wrote a report about how digital readers are changing his reading habits. I too started using a Kindle in 2010, and have enjoyed it. Much more than I thought I would. There are frustrations, since I use books as academic...
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Customer Experience Leaders
A number of weeks ago I was having a discussion about the relevance of customer experience in business strategy and I was struck by my own sense of bewilderment regarding the simplicity and clarity of this discussion. Yet many companies still have massive blind spots...
Making Strategic Intuition work for you
I met William Duggan in 2008, and had the pleasure of taking him out to dinner while he was on a lecture tour in South Africa. His book, Strategic Intuition is one of the best books on developing strategy - and creativity - that I have read (buy it now at Amazon.co.uk...
Making Strategic Intuition work for you
I met William Duggan in 2008, and had the pleasure of taking him out to dinner while he was on a lecture tour in South Africa. His book, Strategic Intuition is one of the best books on developing strategy - and creativity - that I have read (buy it now at Amazon.co.uk...
Great example of Collaboration: Fujitsu Turns Traditional Approach to Innovation on its Head With New “Open Innovation” Service
Our research and presenations often identify Collaboration as one of the big trends in the New World of Work - collaboration with customers, vendors, suppliers and even employees! I'm a big supporter of Crowdsourcing or Open Innovation as a tool for developing rich...
Seth Godin on How to organize a retreat and a meeting
Seth Godin has some really excellent thoughts on how to change the way we run our businesses. Recently, he wrote about how we could change retreats (away days) and meetings.
10 mindblowing augmented reality apps and videos
We've been predicting in our research and presentations for over a year now that Augmented Reality or AR will be the next big thing. AR has the ability to completely redefine how customers experience your products and services. It's especially exciting in service...
Changing the way I Read
For those of you who follow the TomorrowToday blog regularly, you'll know that one of my interests during 2010 was the shifting landscape of reading. All kinds of reading. Books, Newspapers, Magazines. What we were reading on? How we were going to pay for it? How...
10 Digital media trends that will influence 2011
2010 was an exciting year for digital and mobile media and it can be defined as the year in which digital media came of age with Apps and Tablets leading the way. 2011 will build on this trend with competitors launching new products and applications. Consumers will...
The biggest global challenges in 2011
As I look ahead to what 2011 might hold for the global economy, there are a number of key threats that need close watching. Some are known and fairly predictable threats: war in the Middle East continued evidence of state sponsored cyber warfare the economic crisis in...