by Barry O’Reilly Businesses have always come and gone, but these days it seems that companies can fall from market dominance to bankruptcy in the blink of an eye. Kodak, Blockbuster and HMV are just a few recent victims of the rapid market disruption that...
by Barry O’Reilly Again and again, we hear company founders complain in utter frustration that the larger they grow, the less they accomplish. “We built our first product in three weeks; now we can’t ship a new feature in three months,” they might say....
by Chuck Swoboda When you work at a startup that’s developing fundamentally new technology, you’re fueled by a passion for innovation and a belief that anything is possible. In the early days at Cree, we had very big goals but with very limited resources, so the...
by Chuck Swoboda Just ask the old-school distillers—and the ‘new kids’ who are disrupting the market. Imagine that you run a business where, above all else, your customers value how long it takes to make your product. The longer it takes, the better the outcome—or so...
Russell Beck lists urbanisation, technology, demography, climate change, globalisation and politics as global trends impacting the future of business. Back to...
