Peter Fisk’s Blog

The world is a lot better than we think … Factfulness’ Anna Rosling joins me at the European Business Forum 2019

September 25, 2019

Anna Rosling first met her father in law when staying over at her boyfriend’s house at the age of 16. Next morning, Ole, her boyfriend now husband’s father, was founded counting shoes and measuring sizes in the hallway, trying to work out who the extra …

Read more >


Ping An Healthcare’s “Good Doctor” now has over 300 million users … the world’s leading online healthcare ecosystem platform

September 23, 2019

Whilst it started out as an insurance company, founded in 1990 and now completely publicly owned, PingAn has used this financial underpinning to support its growth into many other sectors. A little like Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, it has built …

Read more >


Strategies to unlock profit power … 12 “power nodes” will be the most important sources of profit in future business

September 18, 2019

The Global AMP brings the most important new ideas for business leaders ready to step up to shaping the future to their advantage. Over 4 weeks my challenge is to lead participants from around the world through a journey that explores a world of incred …

Read more >


What does it take to lead the future of business? Some of the essential building blocks for the Global AMP

September 10, 2019

We’re back at the Global AMP at IE Business School. It’s the school’s flagship program to develop transformational business leaders, people stepping up from functional delivery to organisational leadership, from a focus on today, to creating the future …

Read more >


Business for Inclusive Growth (B4IG) … Emmanuel Faber leads companies in seeking economic growth that is distributed fairly across society and creates opportunities for all

September 9, 2019

The Business for Inclusive Growth (B4IG) coalition was launched at the G7 summit in Biarritz on August 23, 2019, with the leadership of Danone’s CEO Emmanuel Faber, and supported by the OECD. Inclusive growth is economic growth that is distributed fair …

Read more >


Alex Osterwalder, Erin Meyer, Scott Anthony, Kjell Nordstrom, and many more … join me at EBF19 to explore the best new ideas in business

September 8, 2019

20 years ago I was inspired by a book featuring two shaven-head Swedish professors, looking more like punk rockers than academics. “Funky Business” shook-up my thinking about the world of work. It told me that crazy ideas are not just possible, but ess …

Read more >


For centuries, electricity was thought to be the work of sorcerers … artificial intelligence is the new electricity

September 3, 2019

For centuries, electricity was thought to be the work of sorcerers. Magicians left audiences puzzled about where it came from and how it was generated. And although Benjamin Franklin and his contemporaries were well aware of the phenomena when he demon …

Read more >


“The Sun Also Rises” … How Ernest Hemingway gave Rita McGrath inspiration to explore strategic inflection points in her new book “Seeing Around Corners”

September 1, 2019

Rita McGrath is a fantastic lady. Full of energy, optimism and encouragement. Pragmatic but a future thinker. One of the world’s most thoughtful strategy gurus. The Columbia Business School professor’s previous book provocatively declared The End of Co …

Read more >


The Department for Dairy Related Scrumptious Affairs … how would you reinvent the world of milk?

September 1, 2019

New markets demand new approaches, emerging trends and alternative business models give you the opportunity to innovate everything from product to service, packaging to distribution, customer experience to business models. Imagine milk you consume dail …

Read more >


Megatrends … the five forces shaping our future, driving the best new opportunities for innovation and growth

September 1, 2019

If you cast yourself back to the 1989 film “Back to the Future II” Marty McFly was transported 26 years forward in time. Here he found hover boards had replaced cars and recreational drones, flat screen TVs and video conferencing were all the norm. Alt …

Read more >