Peter Fisk’s Blog
Disrupt Yourself … “What got you here, won’t take you further” … So how will you challenge yourself, change yourself, to create a better future for you, and your organisation?
May 15, 2025
Daniel Ek, founder of music streaming platform Spotify, was a great software engineer. But as the business grew, he was challenged by his investors to bring in more experienced and commercially minded business leaders. Ek resisted, and slowly realised …
Legendary music producer Rick Rubin’s “The Creative Act” is not a conventional manual on creativity. Instead, it’s a philosophical meditation on the nature of creativity itself.
May 13, 2025
Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act is not a conventional “how-to” manual on creativity. Instead, it’s a philosophical meditation on the nature of creativity itself. Rubin is one of the most influential and unconventional producers in modern music history. H …
Space Thinking … reframing markets as spaces not sectors … talking in the customer’s language, anticipating unmet needs, designing propositions that resonate, and driving innovation and profitable growth
May 8, 2025
Do customers care about banks, or about their wealth? Do they care about insurance, or their protection and peace of mind? Do they care about cars, or travel? Michelin got it right. The French tyre brand always said it was about the journey, not the ru …
The New Nexus … making new connections in business to enable enlightened innovation and accelerate growth … built on creativity, systemic thinking, and AI as your superconnector
May 3, 2025
Business today is not about incremental improvements in familiar markets. The leaders shaping the future are those who see opportunity in connections that others overlook. They combine ideas, technologies, and human insights across disciplines to solve …
Einstein and Picasso Brainskills … analytical and creative thinking will be the most important work skills of the next decade … How to strengthen your “whole brain” thinking to harness the potential of AI, combined with the imagination to leap forwards
April 29, 2025
As we stand at the edge of a rapidly accelerating future, the leaders who will thrive are not those who rely solely on data or those who dream without direction. The true game-changers will be those who master both: the analytical brilliance of Einstei …
Reinvention OS … How Xiaomi has transformed itself from copycat to contender … from smartphones to electric cars
April 28, 2025
When Lei Jun tells the story, he usually begins not with triumph but with embarrassment. The young engineer from Hubei, who grew up devouring computer magazines and teaching himself to code late into the night, was never meant to become one of China’s …
Reinventing business ecosystems for more profitable growth … from Adidas’ Road to Records to Apple’s App Store, Amazon’s Marketplace and Tesla’s Supercharger network … achieving more together, faster and better
April 28, 2025
Last weekend saw thousands of Adidas-sponsored athletes converged on the German sportswear company’s HQ in Herzogenaurach, Germany for a festival of running – only the best runners, only from Adidas. Established in 2021, the “Adizero: Road to Records” …
10 Big Ideas for Business Reinvention … Smarter ways to reinvent your strategy, business models, organisation, processes, culture, leadership and performance
April 20, 2025
I was recently described as one of the world’s leading thinker on business reinvention – quite an accolade, I thought – particularly when you look around at some of my peers and their great ideas, books and real-life examples of transforming organisati …
Reinventing Insurance: Harnessing the power of AI to turn disaster claims into smart protection
April 20, 2025
For most of its history, insurance has been defined by a reactive model: customers pay premiums, disasters strike, claims are filed, and compensation is provided. This contract of risk transfer has been the backbone of the industry for centuries. Yet i …
Nexus Thinking … Mercedes Benz and Bosch as an example of how brands can unlock growth by solving broader customer problems through ecosystems
April 17, 2025
In today’s world, customers no longer just buy products—they buy solutions, experiences, and outcomes. The most successful brands are realizing that to stay relevant and grow, they must think beyond the narrow scope of their products or services. Inste …