Peter Fisk’s Blog
Reliance Industries’ Mukesh Ambani launches the “free” Jio Phone with a dramatic rethinking of the telecoms business model
July 28, 2017
Last week, Indian billionaire and founder of Reliance Industries, Mukesh Ambani launched the Jio Phone. An (almost) free smartphone for the hundreds of millions of aspirational Indians who he serves, and a radical rethinking of the telecoms business mo …
The 50 best ideas for business leaders … exploring the world’s top thinkers and their practical tools, all in one inspiring day!
July 21, 2017
Markets of relentless change, exponential technologies, social and political uncertainty, challenge every business. Ideas can change the world, but making sense of this change, and making new strategies happen is not easy. In fact, everything you learn …
Be extraordinary … average is not good, great is not good enough … standing out, and helping people to stand out, in a similar world
July 20, 2017
In most markets, most products and services have evolved, through stretch and challenge, to be pretty good, even great. Most consumers are satisfied with most of what they buy (if they don’t, they quickly complain). A high-quality product, an everythin …
AirRater to Beat2Phone, Verily and Watson … Patient-centric healthcare innovations for positive wellbeing
July 20, 2017
Healthcare, like many other industries is in the midst of disruptive innovation. Whilst technologies – from digital platforms to genetic engineering, remote monitoring and intelligent devices, robotic procedures and new business models – enable this di …
Branding without a brand … challenging the old world of “lazy, inefficient, expensive” brands
July 15, 2017
Everybody talks about branding being more than a logo. So how do you harness the power of branding, whilst being unbranded? A new startup launched this week called Brandless with a goal to sell a mix of household goods and food online with the goal of …
The fourth industrial revolution … how 12 disruptive technologies will together reshape our world … and their opportunities for your business
July 14, 2017
Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum recently declared that “the fourth industrial revolution is upon us”. This is a rapid and revolutionary change to our world, characterised by the fusion of technologies blurring the lines between the ph …
Being awestruck … ideas that have aesthetic relevance, tickle people’s intellectual sensibilities, and instill a sense of wonder
July 12, 2017
Ideas can change everything. Everything I do starts by enticing people, sometimes easily and sometimes not so, out of their intellectual comfort zones. I’m interested in helping business leaders to think bigger and different, to solve their most import …
Disrupt or be disrupted … 12 “disruptor” techniques to reinvent your business, to shape the future to your advantage
July 12, 2017
My book “Gamechangers” is all about businesses who are shaking up their markets, shaping the future to their advantage. At the heart of this is disruption. The best companies increasingly shape their industries in their own vision. They redesign them t …
What it takes to drive progress in turbulent times … Learning from Einstein, Picasso and “the age of genius”
July 11, 2017
12 years ago I wrote my first book, “Marketing Genius”. Since then it has been translated into 35 languages, become a business book of the year, endorsed by Sir Richard Branson (he actually read and reviewed it), and I’ve followed it with 6 more books …
Sky Robot … you might think of drones as playthings, but they are rapidly disrupting the business world
July 10, 2017
Helen Greiner is often called the “drone queen” since founding her drone company, CyPhy Works. She is also known as the co-founder of iRobot – the company behind the first automated and commercially successful home vacuum, the Roomba, which hit the mar …