In today’s uber-competitive environment innovation is more important than ever. If you’re not innovating your competitor is and you will fall behind. Customers, even your best ones, can fall prey to the “shiny new thing syndrome”. If...
Competitive advantage is what separates you from the rest of the companies and organizations you compete with. It’s the reason people pick you and your business instead of your competition. Competitive advantage in price A business may have a competitive advantage...
Carl Sagan said “You have to know the past to understand the present”. As a futurist, I believe you have to know the past to understand the future. History really does repeat itself and gives us a lot of clues to where we are heading. History tells us...
Create an Innovative Culture Baseball player Yogi Berra once said “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up someplace else”. You can’t expect your company and team to be innovative if you don’t know which direction you’re going in. It’s up to the person in...
The drive-in movie theater concept was an old idea that has become a new idea during the Covid-19 pandemic. I always thought the idea was a good one, even with modern theaters and streaming. It’s novel and unique. People used to watch silent films at the beach...