How to Navigate Business Disruption: Leading Through Uncertainty to Build Organizational Resilience
Turning volatility into competitive advantage, before somebody else rewrites the rules. Business disruption doesn’t catch companies off guard. Organisational inertia prevents companies from taking action when the signals are clear. The signals are almost always visible before the damage is done. Kodak had digital photography in its own labs in 1975. Blockbuster had the chance […]
The Power of Inclusive Strategy Creation
Why inclusive strategy creation is imperative Much has changed since 2020, but much has returned to how things were before COVID-19. The one change that endured is that today, we are a hybrid, mobile, distributed workforce. While this has its advantages, it also means culture develops differently, and cohesion is at risk. What hasn’t changed […]
Celebrating 30 years of growth and innovation
Since 1995, Strategos has helped redefine how organizations grow and innovate. In the past 30 years, the world has changed significantly — yet the real work of transformation remains unfinished. Are today’s leaders truly building the future, or just managing the present? 30 Years of Growth and Innovation: what has changed — and what hasn’t […]
Innovate with purpose
For successful businesses purpose defines the role they want to play in the future they aim to help shape. It is driven by a desire to have a positive impact on the lives of consumers and customers and to engage their employees in building the future of the company. Having a clear purpose will outperform more traditional strategy development because it will help unleash a passion to innovate in your organization.
How the ZF Innovation Team improved their Innovation System.
Gandert van Raemdonck, Head of Innovation at ZF Commercial Vehicles, discusses how innovation drives the future of automotive by building the next generation of commercial vehicles.
Sustainable Leadership: How CEOs Can Balance Profit with Purpose
In an era marked by debates on climate change, social inequities, and evolving stakeholder expectations, the concept of business success has evolved significantly. The traditional profit-centric approach is increasingly replaced with a more holistic perspective considering a company’s social and environmental impacts that can be measured objectively. In this new paradigm, CEOs are expected to […]
Predict the Future by Creating It
Many leadership teams make efforts to predict the future. Yet despite better data, more dashboards, and tighter planning cycles, many C-suites still feel one step behind customers, competitors, and technology developments. Transformation with future-back strategy While boards and investors ask for clear growth stories, markets shift faster than annual plans. The organization gets better at […]
Prevent your Innovation from being Shelved Forever
How many of your company’s ideas are stuck? How often does the exuberance of ideation become the fatigue of realization? We often see this. Great ideas turn into great innovations, but if they do not address an immediate and apparent market need, they are allowed to atrophy “in the lab”. Not too long ago, one […]
Strategic Innovation: link your Innovation Agenda to Strategy
After a time in which it has seemed that execution was all the rage, strategy is a hot topic again in business. However, despite lots of available guidance and no lack of effort by executive teams and strategy functions, companies increasingly struggle to obtain results from the strategies they have developed. In our view, the […]