Insights & Perspectives
Closing the Transformation Gap
We iterated several exercises and visual strategy tools to help create a better shared understanding on this thing called the ‘Transformation Gap’.
A Look into the Pre-Summit Day
In this series, we are releasing a few choice excerpts from the full report. Featured today are brief overviews by Enrico Maset and Nir Melamud.
Strategy Tools’ Partner Success Summit in a nutshell
The first half of 2021 has been a challenging period for many partners and their clients. At the same time, many partners have been able to pivot and adapt extremely well.
Rise of Innovation Superclusters
An emerging global phenomenon Globally there are some 7000 innovation clusters. The EU alone has just below 3000 clusters. A country like Norway has 40. Denmark counts 14. Business clusters, according to traditional literature, are naturally emerging phenomenon,...
Building An Innovation Cluster
What is an Innovation Cluster? An innovation cluster, or often called industry cluster can be understood in two ways. The traditional view is that it is a collection of companies situated within some level of proximity, allowing for more collaboration, interaction,...
Who Starts the Transformation?
At the time, it struck me that we, at Strategy Tools, did not really have an answer to her question. So, we went back to our research, case studies, and interviews. We dug into our data, analyzed well-known cases, sketched out early designs for tools, and tested them. Eventually, we arrived at the Transformation Starters Map. What we found surprised us!
Connecting Strategy, Transformation and Finance
Successful business transformation comes from making a series of strategic decisions, aligning a large number of diverse players, and managing their culture, organization, finance and capital markets.
Three Types of Transformation
Transformation is becoming the "new normal", and is becoming more and more prevalent across industries. This trend is only expected to continue to accelerate. Even heavy-asset industries (like GE) and slower-moving industry (energy & utilities) are facing an...
Starting a Cluster Business Model Revolution in Europe
‘We are humans and our nature is to fly’... Stephen Hawking said it, cluster leaders prove it. As a cluster leader myself, my daily routine is to multiply impact as quickly as possible, to as many people as possible, as consciously as possible. Like a ripple effect....









