Peter Fisk’s Blog

Champions of Business Transformation … Netflix, Adobe, Amazon and Tencent are the leading transformers, driven by technology, climate and new business models

January 6, 2020

What motivates a business leader to embark on strategic transformation? Sometimes it’s a financial crisis, sometimes it’s the threat from a disruptive competitor, sometimes growth stagnates as markets mature or decline, sometimes it’s the opportunity t …

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The New Customer Agenda … What are the new drivers of consumer behaviours, brands and innovation, and their evolving value equations?

January 6, 2020

How will you drive future strategy, innovation and change?  How will you reinvent your business models, brands and experiences to embrace rapidly changing needs, behaviours and aspirations of consumers? As digital experiences drive a hunger for humanit …

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Man and Machine … Uber Elevate’s flying car developed with Hyundai, Toyota’s city of the future at Mount Fuji, and Mercedes Benz’s AVTR are the stars of CES 2020

January 6, 2020

The interaction between man and machine in the future was the theme of this week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. As the intelligence of machines rises dramatically, new opportunity spaces emerge as traditional sectors overlap, and new p …

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Elon Musk is a great future storyteller … How his “masterplan” for Tesla is becoming a reality

January 6, 2020

Elon Musk has become the best future storyteller of today’s business world. His businesses are founded on future ideas, building for future possibilities. They start with an inspiring purpose, be it SpaceX’s desire to sustain life through a new civilis …

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The 10,000 Year Clock … Construction begins on Jeff Bezos’ $42 million 10,000 Year clock … an icon for long-term thinking

January 2, 2020

There is a clock ringing deep inside a mountain. It is a huge clock, hundreds of feet tall, designed to tick for 10,000 years. Every once in a while the bells play a melody. Each time the chimes ring, it’s a melody that has never been played before. It …

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“Business Recoded” … My new book is about having the courage to create a better future, for yourself and your business

January 1, 2020

We live in the most incredible time. More change in the next 10 years than the last 250 years. Technologies with the power to help us leap forwards in unimaginable ways. To transform business, to drive radical innovation. to accelerate growth and achie …

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Did the world get better over the last decade? … 6 reasons to be optimistic about our changing world

December 31, 2019

In many ways, the world is getting better every day, and at an explosive rate, according to Cato Institute senior fellow Johan Norberg as he described in an article for the Wall Street Journal. This is contrary to mainstream sentiment, where many pundi …

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The 2020s will be a decade of transformation … redistributed power, reimagined consumption, enhanced technology

December 23, 2019

The 2020s will be a decade of transformation. When I start my keynotes saying “there will be more change in the next 10 years than the last 250 years” I can feel shuffling of seats. I understand that it sounds like one of those big cliches, full of hyp …

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The New CEOs … society looks to business leaders for direction in a world of social and technological change

December 23, 2019

Indra Nooyi, the former CEO of PepsiCo for 12 years says that ‘there is a leadership vacuum today that CEOs are expected to step into” – as politics is no longer the respected force it was, as religion has become less relevant to many people, and as tr …

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Leading the Blue Oceans … Most employees are unengaged … How to release the untapped talent and energy of employees?

December 17, 2019

It was great to meet Chan Kim last month as he rose to the top of the world’s business guru elite, as Thinkers50 new Global #1 Business Thinker. He and his INSEAD colleague, Renee Mauborgne, are familiar to most of us for their book Blue Ocean Strategy …

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