As I get ready for a two week vacation, I want to  share a reflection that I published in a column for  Madison Magazine a few years ago. It contains a good message for all of us to remember – slowing down to the speed of life some days can actually speed up our creativity. [...]

I had occasion this week to look at a number of different frameworks containing questions that help you design and innovate business models, each one developed by an insightful strategist and each offering advantages. While they varied in details, there was a singular logic that leaders, charged with ensuring their company is competing with winning [...]

Business model innovation lessons abound in the daily news, and not just in the business section.  CNN and Fox News provide recent examples. Both offered breaking but inaccurate news that the US Supreme Court ruled Obama’s signature healthcare reform – the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – as unconstitutional. Their paradigm – a mental model for [...]