Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Below is a summary of how I helped five startups, three middle-market companies, and a business unit of a Fortune 300 company pivot for pandemic-influenced business settings. Challenge Business Model Assumptions. The first step is to evaluate assumptions about the business model.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

They don’t even need to experience these new methods themselves, hearing about them is enough to make them demand the better way. Trend-Driven Innovation , as detailed in our book of the same name, is the end-to-end process of tracking changes in these expectations to make sure that your products, services or experiences don’t fall behind.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In consumer business strategy – from branding to product development – addressing the emotional human needs continuum is crucial to success. Businesses that seek to create superior product/service experiences need to learn how to empathize with consumers’ needs. The Value of Human Needs.

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Press Release Marketing Human Needs Advertising 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

So, you act like an anthropologist to understand human needs and problems before jumping to solutions. Most of us in business, if we need to discover how to do something new, use PowerPoint or Excel spreadsheets to rationalize our approach. And modern management systems must become far more adaptive.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

While there has been a lot of discussion about “what’s left for humans?” If computer technology has the capacity to simplify and streamline transaction costs, more and more work can be done through these smart-contract arrangements, making traditional human-managed firms obsolete.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

It’s the greatest use of domestic water and we have a big business in emerging markets where people have to work hard to fetch water or pay a lot for it. When Paul arrived at Unilever he immediately started creating a new vision and business model with both growth and sustainability at its core. We don’t have all the answers.

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