FUTURE RACE

Jan 30, 2015 | Anthony Mills

According to Newton's Third Law of Motion, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.   As with physics, so with business innovation.   Whenever an innovation impacts a market, it also impacts the business delivering the innovation.   It is as though when the business pushes on the market, the ...

Jan 12, 2015 | Anthony Mills

Twenty four years ago, James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos introduced our world to a modern understanding of the concept of Lean Production.   This came as a result of a 5–year study of the automotive industry that culminated in the book The Machine That Changed the World, which celebrated ...

Dec 20, 2014 | Anthony Mills

Ask most folks to tick off their list of who they think are the world's most innovative companies, and you're likely to get something along these lines... Apple, Google, Amazon, Nike, GE, and so on.   All are high verve, well known brands.   But these are subjective perceptions based purely on top–of–mind ...

Dec 15, 2014 | Anthony Mills

According to the American Enterprise Institute, 89% of the companies listed on the Fortune 500 in 1955 are no longer on the list.   Many no longer exist.   Of those 500 companies, only 61 still remain.   Those companies – names like ...

Nov 15, 2014 | Anthony Mills

Most businesses are in need of finding new ways to grow.   It might be a matter of finding new markets, even creating new markets, or just finding new space in your current markets through new technology and products.   It doesn't matter which of these it is, the pressure is always ...

Nov 06, 2014 | Anthony Mills

Strategic planning is dead.

Or at least what we once knew as strategic planning – that exercise of defining and setting into concrete some long–term strategy that is going to take our business to the next level in its journey.   Indeed, there was once a day – some ways back ...