Peter Fisk’s Blog
What is innovation? Connecting the dots … yet we spend most of our time collecting dots, not enough time connecting them
February 20, 2022
What is innovation? Sounds like an easy question. Or should be. But we still stumble over phrases like making ideas happen, solving problems, doing it profitably, or at least with a positive impact. And of course its easy to resort to Apple, or more sp …
Building rocket ships to the future … from Spot the Dog to Daimler’s Lab1886 … the rise of innovation labs
February 15, 2022
Driving transformation is not easy as part of everyday business. Organisations therefore develop a range of alternative routes to creating more radical change, faster. Spot is a dog-like robot that can climb stairs and run across rough terrains, has 36 …
Good to Great … the simple map that can take you from being a good company, to a great one … and the magic of flywheels
February 15, 2022
Jim Collins’ book “Good to Great” is regarded as one of the all time greats of business literature. At the heart of his approach, built on years of research, is a map. He spent decades exploring what makes great companies perform better. The map is th …
Larry Fink’s 2022 Letter to CEOs … on how capitalism is changing – from profit to purpose, shareholders to stakeholders
February 15, 2022
Larry Fink shocked the financial world in 2018, when he declared that his BlackRock investment firm would only invest in companies that could demonstrate that they had a meaningful purpose beyond profits. Over the previous 30 years Fink had built Black …
What’s your future story? … finding more purpose by defining your legacy … inspired by the All Blacks to leave the world in a better place
February 10, 2022
Every business seeks purpose. At its heart, purpose is about describing how the world is a better place with you. Or, alernatively, to consider how the world would be a lesser place without you. Another way to describe it is legacy. What will you achie …
The Human Value Era … from shareholders to stakeholders, humans as core assets, not costs to minimise
January 22, 2022
In late 2019 the Business Roundtable declared the end of the Shareholder Value Era. Heather McGowan, in her article for Forbes, articulates her belief that the pandemic has shifted us into a new age: the human capital era; and explains how we got here …
Stakeholder Capitalism … Can capitalism be made to work for all of us … and to improve rather than destroy the state of the planet?
January 20, 2022
Can capitalism be made to work for all of us – and to improve rather than destroy the state of the planet? Stakeholder capitalism proposes that corporations should serve the interests of all their stakeholders, and not just shareholders. Stakeholders c …
Future Health … today’s healthcare system is essentially a sickcare system … now is the time for radical reimagination
January 12, 2022
Today’s healthcare system is essentially a “sickcare” system. While there has been huge progress on medical diagnosis and treatments, care delivery hasn’t significantly changed structurally. It’s still largely bricks and mortar where people who are sic …
The Human Element … fuel and friction, and overcoming resistance to innovation and change
January 8, 2022
How do you get people to say yes to a new idea or innovation? In their new book The Human Element Loran Nordgren and David Schonthal, both from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, explore the concepts of fuel and friction. The deep …
How the business world will change in 2022 … meta brands and digital yuan, lunar stations and human creativity … what will you do?
January 4, 2022
2022 will be a year of dramatic innovation. Schumpeter, the Austrian economist, articulated the nature of economic cycles, that every downturn is followed by a new era-defining upturn. Changing attitudes and entrepreneurial mindsets drive industrial re …