Generative AI can formulate a brilliant value proposition — but only if you’ve done the homework it cannot do for you. Alexander Osterwalder returns for Part 2 of our Strategyzer series to share the four evidence-based foundations of value proposition design, the new Value Stack tool, and why growth is a profession, not a creative gift.
Business cases are a fantasy, says Alex Osterwalder. What you can measure is the evidence they could work. The Strategyzer CEO and Business Model Canvas creator shares his evidence-based innovation playbook: five levels of evidence, scored across desirability, feasibility and viability, that show leaders which projects to fund and which to retire. Part one of a three-part series.
Innovation isn’t a gift — it’s a process. Carla Johnson, author of RE:Think Innovation, shares her Wheel of Innovation: five steps to new, great and reliable ideas. Hear how Big Ass Fans, the CDC’s zombie campaign and a Cisco router love story prove anyone can learn to innovate — and pitch ideas that stick.
Only 2% of people are narcissists — but roughly 16% of CEOs are. Jennifer Chatman explains why narcissistic leadership gets mistaken for vision, how to spot it, and how to protect your culture from its sticky after-effects.
Author Geoffrey Cain takes Aidan McCullen inside Steve Jobs in Exile — the NeXT years of vengeance, sabotage and failure that quietly built the Apple comeback.
Geoffrey Cain reveals the untold story of Steve Jobs in Exile: fired from Apple in 1985, sued by his own company, three years from bankruptcy at NeXT — and how those failures forged the leader who saved Apple. Part 1 of 2.
A single developer sold an $80 million company to Wix in six months. In this Kyndryl Institute panel, Rita McGrath, Alexander Osterwalder, Ismail Amla and Usman Sheikh explain how AI is rewiring organisations — killing the billable hour, flattening power, and shifting work from hours to outcomes.
Eric Ries — author of Incorruptible and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange — joins Aidan McCullen to expose the hidden forces that corrupt mission-driven organisations. From financial gravity and the golden goose problem to the LTSE ambush and the Costco governance fortress, this is a blueprint for building an incorruptible organisation that lasts.
Bruce Vojak closes our three-part Serial Innovators series with the playbook for finding and protecting breakthrough talent: the five core traits to look for, the four engagement filters that actually identify a serial innovator, why HR and AI hiring screens filter them out, and the manager behaviours — air cover, patience, no “J work” — that keep them from walking out the door.
Most innovators believe a great idea will sell itself. Bruce Vojak, co-author of Serial Innovators, joins Aidan McCullen to reveal why that belief will get you fired — and how the rare few who repeatedly deliver breakthrough innovations inside mature firms actually navigate the organisational politics that stop everyone else cold.