Peter Fisk’s Blog
AI just wrote my next book … Quantic Brains, the Spanish team of human brains building artificial brains for books, videos and games
June 29, 2023
This week I met Quantic Brains, a Spanish AI-based start-up which is reinventing the way content is created for books, videos and games. I sat down with founders Manuel Lucania and Julio Covacho, chose a title for my next book, and within 10 minutes it …
15 Druckerisms … the best way to predict the future is to create it … the purpose of a business is to create a customer … and much more
June 22, 2023
Peter Drucker, the Austrian-born consultant turned academic, is often regarded as the father of modern management thinking. He also played a crucial role in the development of consulting firms McKinsey and Bain. Although he authored 39 best-selling man …
Joe Tsai, the new chairman of Alibaba … the billionaire Taiwan-born lawyer, who is a crypto enthusiast, and owner the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, was one of Alibaba’s 17 co-founders
June 22, 2023
Joe Tsai was one of 17 friends who were invited to Jack Ma’s Hangzhou apartment in February 1999, an evening where they developed a plan to create a new digital platform to “revolutionise the Internet industry”. They called it Alibaba. Tsai gave up a H …
Infinite and Invincible … Building a “growth portfolio” amidst relentless change is a journey of projects, innovations and transformation.
June 22, 2023
Shigetaka Komori, former CEO of Fujifilm, had a mantra, “never stop transforming.” As a result, the Japanese business has created innovative solutions in a wide variety of fields, leveraged its imaging and information technology to become a global pres …
The Information-Action Paradox … why an abundance of data reduces the ability of business leaders to deal with uncertainty, to make strategic choices, to act on the need to change.
June 22, 2023
Every market is uncertain. Every business leader needs to lead in a blur of change. Volatile, dynamic environments bring new challenges to decision-making. Executives still yearn after stable environments, where the future is predictable, and data abou …
Unleashing your brandemic … how culture drives what we buy, what we do, and who we want to be … insights from Beyonce’s digital strategy, and how the New Jersey Nets became the Brooklyn Nets
June 20, 2023
A brand strategy should should be a clear reflection of the ideologies and beliefs that the company, or product or person, wants to signify. And once we know who we are, we can then target people who see the world the way we do. “Culture moves forward …
Apple is still the world’s most innovative company … but with OpenAI and DeepMind now challenging … as every company focuses more on innovation in fast-changing markets.
May 26, 2023
Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies ranking for 2023 is just out. As always its a great curation of interesting stories from some of the world’s most inspiring, innovative companies shaking up fast-changing markets. While some rankings prefer to j …
Creating unusual connections … Concept fusions take multiple ideas – often nature or science, other sectors or markets, modular or decoupled – and connect them in novel ways.
May 18, 2023
Tinker Hatfield joined Nike in 1981, having started out as a pole vaulter and then trained as an architect, and rapidly became its lead shoe designer. He realised that his architectural skills could be applied to shoes, and is credited with designing t …
Builders of a better world … cement creates 8% of global carbon emissions … Brimstone’s carbon-negative cement is set to revolutionise the construction industry
May 14, 2023
Cement production is responsible for about 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions and 5.5% of total global greenhouse gas emissions. Although several companies are exploring solutions, many only partially reduce emissions or end up with a product that c …
Kongō Gumi, the world’s oldest business … how Korean immigrant carpenter Shigemitsu Kongō found a 1400 year opportunity to build Buddhist temples in Japan
May 12, 2023
In 578 BCE, Japan’s Prince Shotoku invited three immigrant Korean carpenters to build his country’s first Buddhist temple, Shitenno-Ji. Buddhism was growing rapidly in Japan at the time, however the Japanese had no experience of building Buddhist templ …