Strategy for Value Creation

A magazine about Value Creation Strategy for organizations. Created and curated by Jairo H Venegas. Advisor/Consultant. I help Boards, C-levels and Individuals to Innovate/Transform, trough the connection of Innovation, Strategy and Operation to Value.

Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation And The AI Advantage
digitalistmag.com - Bill Schmarzo
Wait, the artificial intelligence (AI) advantage is already here and gone? That’s what Deloitte warns in the report “Future in the balance? How …
Driving
WHY? BECAUSE MOST ARE STILL DEPLOYING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES PIECEMEAL
accenture.com
of executives want new efficiencies, new growth, and new experiences to be delivered at the same time. of companies are getting both cost saving …
Digital Transformation
Executives are out of touch with the human effects of digital darwinism
TNW - Brian Solis
Digital Darwinism: the evolution of technology and its impact on markets and society. I’m sure you’ve heard it before: Happy employees mean happy customers. But what happens when customers and employees
Business
Here's What Your Business Really Needs Instead of a Strategic Plan
Inc Magazine - Robert Glazer
Every successful company has a vision statement. Vision and business go hand in hand. The best entrepreneurs are the ones who can set an audacious goal, inspire talented people to pursue it with them,
Customers
The Customer Experience: Eight Ways You’re Killing The Romance
Forbes - Shep Hyken
I attend quite a few industry and corporate events that have a trade show. I always try and find time to walk the aisles to find out about the latest and greatest technologies and products that enhance
Geek
What Technology Is Most Likely to Become Obsolete During Your Lifetime?
Gizmodo - Daniel Kolitz
Certain Boomer basements are little shrines to obsolescence, untidy stockrooms of the one-time cutting-edge: VCRs, corded telephones, immense beige …
Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader Kindle Edition
amazon.com - Herminia Ibarra
You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you’re busy executing on today’s demands. You know you have to carve out time from your day …
Don’t blame research for a lack of innovation | Opinion
research-live.com - Ingrid Recio Jiménez
It’s all too easy to find fault with market research techniques for quashing innovation, but Nick Bonney argues the bigger barriers to innovation, …
Fourth Industrial Revolution
The next start-up cities that will transform the global economy
weforum.org - Marc Penzel
During the past decade, much of the discussion about start-up ecosystems has been centered on the question of which city or region will become “the …
Gore-Tex
The Maker of Gore-Tex Is Experimenting With an Artificial Cornea
Bloomberg
Scrubbed in and gowned, Esen Akpek perches on a stool over a surgical table, her blue-gloved hands miming the procedure she’s about to perform. In …
Product Innovation
Why Product Innovation Slows After the Series A
tomtunguz.com
You’ve found product market fit. You’ve hired a team, including some managers. Your initial, small customer base is very happy. You’ve discovered an …
Business
Use Failure as an Opportunity to Reflect on Your Strengths
Harvard Business Review - Susan Peppercorn
In a presentation to a group of executive jobseekers in transition, a recruiter made the point that after years of reviewing C-level resumes, she had noticed a commonality: none of these top professionals
Business
Your Organization Needs a Learning Ecosystem
Harvard Business Review - Whitney Johnson
Organizations grow when their employees are learning. If you want a high growth organization, you need to create a learning ecosystem to support high growth individuals — to expose them to new and challenging
Business
Why Innovation Labs Fail, and How to Ensure Yours Doesn’t
Harvard Business Review - Simone Bhan Ahuja
What do Walmart, Facebook, and Lockheed Martin have in common? They all recently unveiled lavish new innovation labs. These kinds of labs go by different names — accelerators, business incubators, research
OpenAI
Microsoft invests $1 billion in artificial intelligence project co-founded by Elon Musk
CNBC - Lauren Feiner
Microsoft is investing $1 billion in Elon Musk's OpenAI to build artificial intelligence that can tackle more complex tasks, the companies announced …
Business
The coming mass extinction of Fortune 500 companies
Axios - Steve LeVine
Just 60 of the Fortune 500 of 1955 remain in the hallowed group. The rest (like American Motors, above, subsumed by Chrysler in 1987) have been …
Advertising Industry
The case for and against the retail innovation lab
Digiday - Anna Hensel
As the retail landscape continues to evolve, so too has the concept of the innovation lab. Retail innovation labs have taken on a number of different …
The C-suite Study
ibm.com
In most sectors, disruption isn’t coming from start-ups or digital giants. Instead, it’s industry incumbents that are dominating. These incumbents …
Strike Back
So are you considering a new platform business model? Good luck!
wordpress.com - by @paul4innovating
You cannot escape the discussions around platform business models. Recently I saw that 50% of all organizations are either investing or considering a …
The Bionic Company | Winning the ’20s
bcg.com - Rich Hutchinson
The primary barrier to progress today is no longer technology itself. Rather, it is finding the right design for a company so that it can unleash the …
Success
Fixed mindset versus growth mindset: how your beliefs can prevent your success
Ladders - Mayo Oshin
The fixed mindset is a belief that your character, creativity, intelligence and general ability to achieve a certain goal is “fixed” and cannot be …
The case for digital reinvention
mckinsey.com
As new markets emerge, profit pools shift, and digital technologies pervade more of everyday life, it’s easy to assume that the economy’s …
Internet of Things
Find out how to succeed with the industrial internet of things in manufacturing
The Telegraph
Why industry 4.0 is all about the industrial IoT and big data analytics According to Forbes, industrial internet-of-things (IoT) data analytics is the No 1 reason for companies to invest in the industrial
Microsoft
In spite of slowing growth, Microsoft has been flexing its cloud muscles
TechCrunch - Ron Miller
When Microsoft reported its FY19, Q4 earnings last week, the numbers were mostly positive, but as we pointed out, Azure earnings growth has stalled. Productivity and business, which includes Office 365,
A Bad Time to Be Average
bcg.com - Hans-Paul Bürkner
The BCG Henderson Institute is Boston Consulting Group’s strategy think tank, dedicated to exploring and developing valuable new insights from …
Digital Transformation
Transformation Without Technology | MIT Sloan Management Review
mit.edu
The most effective responses to digital disruption don’t make use of technology at all. In our present age of digital disruption, it makes intuitive …
H&M
Competitive Agility
accenture.com
What if companies could quantify the impact of trust on their bottom line? Now they can. It’s time for oil and gas companies to put their energy into …
Digital Transformation
7 Examples Of How Digital Transformation Impacted Business Performance
Forbes - Blake Morgan
Digital transformation involves more than just updating technology and processes; it also involves revenue and shareholders. Many companies are hesitant to invest in digital transformation without knowing
Infographics
Infographic: Most Consumers Only Consider 2 to 4 Brands When Making a Purchase
Adweek - Sammy Nickalls
When it comes to shopping, consumers are fairly open-minded—after all, just 4% say they only consider one brand when making purchases, according to …