We’re All Becoming Cyborgs 1.0 · We Just Don’t Realize It
The phone on your nightstand is the prosthetic. The text box on your screen is the interface. The conversation you had this morning with an AI that drafted, critiqued, and…
Stronger Together Was a Slogan · Now It’s a Strategy Requirement
For two decades, "stronger together" was corporate wallpaper. It announced mergers nobody asked for. It headlined campaign buttons and pep-rally decks. It got slapped on the lobby wall above a…
The Innovation Dividend · Why the Right Projects Pay You Twice
Every technology project your company greenlights carries a number: an expected return on investment. The business case gets built, the spreadsheet gets blessed, and if the ratio looks right, the…
Innovation is a Process: Project Vista
We're proud to present a foundational post from our CEO's "Innovation is a Process" series... Divergent Ideation, Convergent Prioritization Most organizations treat innovation like lightning. They wait for it…
Why the Old Big 4 Consulting Model is Dying
and What the Mid-market Should be Considering in its Place There is a ritual that plays out in conference rooms across middle-market America several thousand times a year. A…
When the World’s Biggest Firms Ignore Their Own Advice
In March 2023, Bloomberg spent $10 million building BloombergGPT, a custom large language model trained on decades of proprietary financial data. The team published a paper, the press covered it…
Innovation is a Process · Opportunity-space Matrices
We're proud to present another article in our CEO's "Innovation is a Process" series... Most companies approach innovation backwards. They start with a solution (usually whatever technology the trade press…
Why Popular Innovation Frameworks Fail the Mid-Market
and What They All Get Wrong About People Every few years, a new framework arrives in the mid-market executive's inbox, promising to unlock innovation. The names rotate; the pitch does…
The “Status Quo” Lotus Flower You Are Eating May Kill Your Company
In Homer's Odyssey, the Lotus-Eaters are a people "trapped" in a state of terminal, honey-sweet contentment. They weren't being tortured or oppressed; they were simply sedated into irrelevance. Once a…
The Easy Answers are Free. The Wrong Questions are Fatal.
The "commoditization of certainty" is the defining economic reality of our time. Answers to nearly any question can be obtained in less than 60 seconds from a free website. For…