Category: Entrepreneurship

During the New Year holidays, I finally found some time to read Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, the profound entrepreneurship book by Peter Thiel, the US billionaire, venture capitalist, and founding CEO of…

Business Creativity Entrepreneurship

Mastering Digital Transformation – Part 3

Detlef ReisMay 10, 2018

In part 2 of this three article series, we discussed the “innovator’s dilemma” to better understand the challenges that the digitalization of business imposes on both established corporations and start-up ventures. We also explored strategies established firms can employ to…

Business Creativity Entrepreneurship

How cyclicality drives business and innovation

Detlef ReisJuly 25, 2017

What do the state of the economy, a product, a corporate venture, a leading technology, the four seasons, and living things such as human beings have in common? All evolve and revolve in cycles, in “waves of change”. And as…

Entrepreneurship Innovation Method TIPS

Understanding the Cycles of Changes Using TIPS (Part 2)

Detlef ReisOctober 13, 2016

Two weeks ago, we looked at the driving forces of change in societies by looking at four traditional roles that underpin most societies: a smart scholar or academic; a progressive merchant or entrepreneur; a collegial farmer or worker; and the…

Entrepreneurship Innovation Method TIPS

Understanding the Cycles of Changes Using TIPS

Detlef ReisSeptember 28, 2016

Imagine a time machine brought you a few hundred years back in time to a feudal principality in the agricultural age. Upon your arrival, you’re randomly assigned to join one of three traditional social groups: farmers, clerics or warriors. You…

Business Entrepreneurship Innovation

Tracking the dimensions of change over time

Detlef ReisDecember 10, 2015

Innovation means change. Tracking and mapping political, economic, social, and technological change are critical explorative activities at the beginning of a strategy innovation project. Naturally, the changes of the emerging future are grounded in both the changes of the past…

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