How a company quit its core business to grow in a new space
Every company comes across tipping points that dictate its place in business history forever. A reasonable mix of paranoia and smart risks are the prerequisites to survive. A Danish company offers a timely case study on breaking away from corporate inertia, while also pausing us to self-reflect on our actions or lack thereof.
3 questions to remove your blind spots while chasing adjacent markets
Entering an adjacent market is more than a simple transfer of competencies. The sooner you accept this, the faster you find the right adjacent market that values what you offer.
Ask these 14 questions to jump-start your company’s growth
Discover a cross-functional growth exercise to supercharge your business even in gloomy times. The insights from this exercise can make your organization much more resourceful and nimbler to take control of the eventual good times.
A decision-making hack to avoid drowning in data
Leaders often drink from a firehose of data points fed to them from different teams. It’s worth thinking about how many of these data points lead to “sound” decisions.
Adopt an ecosystem mindset to find value in any market
The ecosystem mindset stops you from being passive or reactive in a market. This mindset forces you to take an active role in generating value while uncovering new ways to capture more value. Analyzing any market with the ecosystem mindset stops you from being completely surprised by market developments.