Insights & Perspectives
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....
Rita McGrath on Strategy Tools in Action
Imagine enrolling in a traditional course on strategic management, because you need to or want to understand something about the topic. You hope the course will help land you a job in an exciting industry – perhaps high tech, advanced materials or consulting or other...
How can your organization develop better strategy teams?
Our hypothesis was that we could build on the learnings from a similar program that was already in motion in Brazil, lead by our partner Strategy Tools, where one of the key objectives was how to develop a world-class strategy team in a 100% digital environment. The...
STRATEGY TOOLS IN 2020 – Highlights
2020 has proven to be a different year than anyone expected. In this blog post, we would like to reflect back on 2020 and share some big ideas for 2021. Looking back at 2020, three things stand out to us: #1 The growth of the global community 2020 has seen a massive...