Insights & Perspectives

Designing client programs for outcomes, not sessions

Most programmes are designed around sessions. They should be designed around outcomes. Here is how to lock in outcomes from day one, with the Program Outcome Canvas and four worked examples.

The €19 Trillion Question

Our new e-book, Europe's Alternate Tech Future, rewrites thirty years of European tech history and asks what the path not taken is really worth. Download it free here. In September 2024, Mario Draghi said out loud what many in Brussels already knew. Europe had fallen...

How Money Flows Through Clusters

Just like a business, a cluster needs a business model and a financial model. Here are the five ways money flows out of a cluster, and the three ways it comes in.

Closing the Transformation Gap

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

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.

Rise of Innovation Superclusters

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

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?

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!

Three Types of Transformation

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

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....