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New-age value creation: Working backwards from the future you envision

Nairobi, July 8 -- "A plan is not a strategy. A strategy is not a plan," advises Roger Martin. Do leading-edge firms like Google or Tesla do traditional five-year plans? Then, label them with the buz... Read More


Want lasting success? Think small to grow big

Nairobi, July 1 -- "You can't be seen, until you learn to see" -- marketing whiz, Seth Godin. Is "How can we reach more customers?" the first question to ask? Or, should one start by asking, "Which s... Read More


Questions to help determine your firm's innovativeness

Nairobi, June 24 -- "It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all" --Edward de Bono. Do market capture innovation ideas require mo... Read More


Here's why straight-line thinking fails in business

Nairobi, June 17 -- Tough to see around the next corner with straight line thinking. Look out the window. Do you see any straight lines in nature? Is thinking in a linear way, our built-in default mo... Read More