The main objection I get when I say that every company can and should innovate is: ‘Our people just aren’t creative’ And that’s where I call bullshit! The reason your employees are not creative is you! Creativity… essentially everyone has the potential to be creative. If you want to unlock…

Founders need both an inspiring vision and a focused go-to-market strategy that drives growth. — Let’s do an experiment. Well not really an experiment, because I know the outcome, but it feels like an experiment. Stretch out your arm in front of you and point your index finger up Focus your vision on the tip of your finger, are you seeing a sharp image Now…

Every founder has it and you have to learn how to deal with it. It is a result from not being able to moderate our entrepreneurial curiosity. It is called Shiny Object Syndrome or SOS. Shiny Object Syndrome is very damaging to your startup, your career and your social life…

Optimising a part of a system often results in sub-optimising the system as a whole — There is a real danger in relentlessly seeking cost-savings and efficiency in your company. The problem is that often as we optimise part of a system by making it more efficient we sub-optimise the system as a whole. This idea is explained as the Doorman Fallacy described by Rory Sutherland: …

The central premise of network effects is that a product or service becomes more valuable to its users as more people use it. Network effects can be so powerful that they have the tendency to become a monopoly. And the centralised organisations controlling these monopolies tend to use their power…

Introducing The Protium.Digital Strategy and Maturity Model — Sometimes it seems hard to imagine how much of our lives has already been impacted by the ongoing Digital Revolution. To remind myself I always look at this now very famous image of the last two Papal inaugurations in the Vatican, almost 8 years apart. This image is so power-full…

Every year we see lists appearing at the end of the year predicting the future of technology. The most amazing technological advances are being predicted by almost every media outlet out there. And yet what we see is that most people and organisations are still catching up on the predictions…