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Continuous Foresight: Building Stronger, more Innovative, and Adaptable Organizations

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses thrive by being able to navigate changes in customer preferences, technology and politics. They must continually be on the lookout, observing the world around them, making decisions, and taking actions that will lead to positive business outcomes. Gartner calls

Innovation: The PATHS of Leading Businesses

By Dick Weisinger

Leaders – Middlers- Laggards. Those are the three categories that Accenture used to divide businesses based on their deployment of new technologies. Most companies resist change and innovation. Change is difficult and is risky. But while failure can be costly

Tech M&A: Stifling or Innovative? Can Startups Escape the Kill Zone?

By Dick Weisinger

There were abundant tech mergers and acquisitions throughout 2019.Some of the notable acquisitions include: Paypal buys Honey for $4 billion.Google buying Fitbit for $2.1 billion.Facebook acquires CTRL-Labs for $1 billion.Workday buys Scout for $540 million. That’s a lot of money

Disruptive Innovation: It’s Not a Strategy

By Dick Weisinger

What’s the difference between disruption and innovation? Disruption takes something we already have and abruptly changes how we think about it, learn about it, or do it. It morphs something that we currently have into something that’s new, and that’s

Innovation: What Does it Take?

By Dick Weisinger

Innovation is the secret ingredient that separates good companies from great ones. It takes an innovative leader to make the difference. Deborah Ancona, researcher at MIT Sloan School of Management, said that innovative “leaders are the folks that create frothy,