Change Management:

Business Evolution

Business Designs

Business Model × Business Processes

Business Design Defined

Business designs describe different possible configurations of a business idea, how this idea adds value, and how it is embodied in distinctive capabilities to create sustainable competitive advantage.

Sustainable Business Models

Sustainable business success is based not on great ideas, guts, or instinct alone – but on your ability to create an master your business model. In the new era of unrelenting change and competition, your face a daunting challenge: how to sustain the business model of your firm. "The fact is, no matter how bulletproof your firm's current business model, it will be challenged by new business models."⁴ The new reality is that business models have shorter shelf life. You must constantly attempt to discover new business models if you hope to survive and grow... More

The Tree of Business

Improving Your Business Designs

"Like species in natural ecosystems, business designs have fitness and sustainability functions. They can be improved in a number of ways, either through more appropriate strategic moves being made on the strategic landscape, or by thinking of a broader range of robust and complementary options from which to make strategic moves."

Enterprise-wide Business Process Management (EBPM)

EBPM, representing the third-wave of Business Process Management, is "a deliberate and collaborative approach to systematically – and systemically – managing all of a company's business processes," says Andrew Spanyi.

EBPM addresses the pressing need of the new knowledge-driven economy to integrate business process thinking with strategy, organizational structure and people issues. It requires that your executive team lead and manage differently and think more systemically about your business... More

Market Leadership Strategies

The market leader  is dominant in its industry and has substantial market share. If you want to lead the market, you must be the industry leader in developing new business models and new products or services. You must be on the cutting edge of new technologies and innovative business processes. Your customer value proposition must offer a superior solution to a customers' problem, and your product must be well differentiated... More

6Ws of Corporate Growth

To achieve sustainable corporate growth, you and your people should live the principles of  6Ws of corporate growth. The "Six Ws" – what, why, who, when, where and how – are very powerful words. Use them constantly to seek, either from yourself or from others, the answers needed to manage effectively... More

Strategies for Leading Breakthroughs

So what separates extraordinary leaders from proponents of the status quo? They break the rules. Except, not in an arbitrary or capricious way. When you look at examples of extraordinary leadership, like the Founding Fathers of the United States or Jack Welch of GE, certain practices or principles become apparent. To start, there is a declaration of what the future will be. There is also a purpose, something to stand for. And finally, there is a clearly articulated commitment... More

The Tao of Business Success

The Tao helps you achieve much more with much less effort. This effortless skill comes from being in accord with reality. You can't tell the singer from the song. You can't tell the dancer from the dance. When you are in harmony with the Tao, when you go with its current  of energy, your innate intelligence takes over, and the right action happens by itself.

The Tao teaches you the art of living and doing business. It gives you advice that imparts perspective and balance. It applies equally well to the managing of a large corporation or the running of a small business, to the governing of a nation or the leading a small team, to your personal development or to the coaching of others... More