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.

Leadership in Clusters and Networks

Leadership in Clusters and Networks

By: Christian Rangen and Tanja Hoel This blogpost is written for the Global Drucker Forum 2020, Leadership Everywhere Why Clusters Matter Clusters can play a significant role in shaping national growth industries and accelerate national transformation. Countries like...

Building Better Cluster Business Models

Building Better Cluster Business Models

A Global Challenge Over the past 5 years I have worked with more than 50 clusters and cluster initiatives around the world. Over the past 12 months I have read more than 250 cluster snapshot analysis. The single biggest challenge standing out across all of these...

Clusters & Capital: 10 Challenges to Overcome

Clusters & Capital: 10 Challenges to Overcome

By: Christian Rangen & Victor Haze  Over the past five years, we have worked closely with clusters, cluster managers and national cluster programs. One of us as an advisor, the other as an Innovation Manager. Most of the clusters we have met are firmly grounded in...