Bryan Elanko Bryan Elanko

A pastiche (Tarantino) approach to strategy development

Cross-pollinate your strategy influences. Keep an eye on what’s happening in other industries and innovative companies beyond your familiar set. There’s a bias for executives to look inward within their own company, maybe even study the past, or look at their peer companies to craft strategy. Sometimes the smartest strategy might be to borrow effective strategies from other industries and make it your own. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel always!

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Bryan Elanko Bryan Elanko

Be empathetic to every stakeholder in your ecosystem

Why stop empathy mapping at the user or customer level? Why not extend it to every stakeholder in your company’s ecosystem? Let’s not use empathy mapping strictly for user experience design alone. Let’s think about empathy mapping as a collaborative tool for value creation for every stakeholder.

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2-minute Product Marketing Insights