The Last Word: The hard test for companies is finding out whether or not they’re willing to stop pretending while they still have a choice. This week, I read a post...
Tag - Reinvention
Stories of strategic transformation and bold new directions
Too many firms say too much about too little and miss the news that counts. In a hollowed-out media, the press release is overdue a rethink. “If you’ve got nothing to...
The Last Word: Bogotá shows that urban resilience works only when housing, transport, water, and public spaces are redesigned together. Last week, I argued that the...
From catching up to shaping Europe: Five strategic resets, and a 5C Framework for winning the Second Age of Leadership in emerging Europe. For thirty years, Central and...
The Last Word: Urban intelligence gives us the capacity to redesign daily life before a changing, warming climate makes cities unliveable. On July 23, weather stations...
A struggling firm reaches for artificial intelligence as it once reached for innovation. Neither saves a business the sums no longer favour. Lip-Bu Tan took charge of...
The Last Word: One more client might buy some time, one more initiative may create some new energy, but neither is enough to save a company. Ask IT companies what is...
The Last Word: Reinvention is the ability to turn learning into a different path. It means changing what you do, and how you create value. I read an interview with...
Fewer Europeans are eating out and margins are thin. Their way back runs through theatre, delivery and a smaller, cheaper table than before. Guido Zöllick got his tax...
The Last Word: Creativity is not the ability to summon ideas out of nowhere, but to recognise a real possibility before it becomes obvious. We tend to imagine creativity...
Brussels is pouring billions into digitising Europe’s water networks, promising fewer leaks and cleaner data, even as hackers test them too. In Bytom, a mining...
The Last Word: Organisations that matter will not ask whether AI replaces people. They will ask what people can now become capable of doing. The simplest story about AI...