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Strategy: What it is, and why you should be doing it
It’s the beginning of 2007 – 13 years ago, just before the global financial crisis hit – and I just got back from the…
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The importance of having a long-term view
“Every company requires a long-term view.” – Jeff Bezos Short-termism seems to be everywhere today. Companies with a long-term perspective have however finally been…
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Top Remote Working Software Tools to Innovate & Collaborate
Working remotely is almost a must today. Considering the current situation, I’m sharing an article (in full) with some of the top remote working software…
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Why strategy is not dead
Strategy is no longer necessary, according to some – but without it, business would not utilize our full human potential. A few years back,…
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How to create clarity in 15 minutes
Many of our clients just have too much going on. Ultimately, this overwhelms the mind, makes thinking cluttered, and creates difficulties in prioritization. There…
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Time to focus on the long-term
Getting management teams to look beyond the horizon is sometimes a challenge since everyday business is so engulfing. Despite the above challenges, long-termism has…
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50 examples of companies that failed to innovate
Valuer recently published an interesting selection of companies that failed to innovate. We believe the article is too good to miss and just had…
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Exponential Innovation at Singularity University in Silicon Valley
The world is experiencing accelerating change, which has made us even more convinced in our belief in lifelong learning. Knowledge is getting outdated faster than…
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Happy to work with the PINC Incubator!
Last week I had the opportunity to work with the newly started incubator PINC in Stockholm – with focus on Business Model Innovation and…
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Long-term focus outperforms short-termism
“Corporate short-termism” has been the subject of ongoing debate – among leaders in business, government, and academia – for decades. To understand the facts…
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Are you relevant?
Customers do not primarily buy a product or a service, they buy a solution to a perceived problem. Consequently, a company’s competitive edge is…
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Are you relevant?
Customers do not primarily buy a product or a service, they buy a solution to a perceived problem. Consequently, a company’s competitive edge is…
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Next stop: the Royal Danish Opera
It’s time for two days of inspiration at the first Singularity University Copenhagen Summit on the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen. Over two epic…
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European Business Forum on Innovation and Growth
Without reflection, no learning happens. A lot of our own personal learning today happens online in parallel to our everyday commitment to support executives…
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The power of you having first hand customer experiences
In B2B, market and customer data is not always easy to gather or access. Still, it’s key to innovation, growth and renewal. Let’s take…
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Value Creation workshop delivered
We just delivered a value creation workshop – from an Outside-In perspective – to an international team of high potentials with a client. The workshop…
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Thanks to the ENTRIM team!
A recent dark and rainy November evening in southern Sweden, we aspired to bring some more light into this beautiful world. How? Through passionately delivering…
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Two workshops just delivered at Lund University
For the fourth year in a row I just delivered a workshop for the students of the Master’s Programme in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Lund University. The focus and…
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Bring your team on a Customer Safari
Did you know that first hand experiences are generally more valuable than second hand knowledge? Actually, the strongest insights come from what you have…
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Creative people must be stopped
Creating growth through innovation has become an increasingly important challenge to many companies. To develop a new product however means a constant compromise. A compromise…
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Test prototyping a silly idea
In our consulting services, we often use Design Thinking methodology to approach relevant business problems and challenges. Design Thinking originates in design, but has developed into…
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Time for ideation?
Hungry for some inspiration on ideation? Check out these resources presented by the IDEO team at IDEO U From ideas to Action: The Reinvention of Normal:…
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Back from the Strategyzer Bootcamp for Business Model Innovation Coaches
The world we live in is experiencing accelerating change. Hence, what took us here may not be what is taking us into the future. With…
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Time for some summer reading?
Summer is definitely here and you are hopefully taking time to just relax, and maybe even finding some time to read a few useful books.…
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Crash Course in Design Thinking
As part of my mission to inspire organizations to embrace an outside-in approach to business, we just finished a crash course in Design Thinking…
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The future of electricity workshop at Royal Society in London
I felt truly humbled to be able to contribute as a speaker and group facilitator with a customer and end-user perspective in a future…
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New training opportunity: Designing for Growth
Human Centered Design, Service Design and Design Thinking are all similar approaches to product, service and business innovation that have grown in popularity over…
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How do you place your future innovation bets?
The WHY of innovation today isn’t just about avoiding that your product range turns into commodity. Instead it is becoming brutally clear…
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Workshop for Buyer Persona and Customer Journey mapping
Last week we had a small, but very encouraging co-creation workshop with a client where we helped building relevant buyer personas for a customer…
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Why the Digital Society empowered the Sharing Economy
Guest blog by Linda Malmgren. With the evolution of Internet came a transformation of society. The internet allowed us to create a world where…
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Value Proposition Design in the Telecom industry
We were recently invited to a telecom company during part of their yearly Marketing and R&D conference to introduce methods and concepts of Value Proposition…
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Trend Watching Training
I just finished a two day Trend Watching Training with an ambitious and curious team. The program included: an introduction to a world of…
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Why Strategy Is Not Dead
Strategy is no longer necessary, according to some – but without it, business would not utilise our full human potential. This article was first…
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Big data and Thick data – both are needed
Reblogged from Harvard Business Review. For marketers, truly valuable customer data comes in two forms: thick data and big data. Thick data is…
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Why Your Strategy Needs a Futurist
This article was first published on INSEAD Knowledge, as Why Your Company Needs a Resident Futurist, September 10, 2015: Being far-sighted about your strategy can…
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Looking into the future is always a challenge
Strategy is about defining your current state, future position and direction. Understanding your environment – both current and future – is an important part…
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My Favorite Strategy Books
Summer is a great time to read, and there is still some time to read until it’s over, even here in the Nordics. Our last…
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A summer reading list
Finding inspiration and seeds for good ideas is something we can all make a daily habit, 365 days per year. Now that summer is here,…
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The same old thinking leads to the same old results
At best, the same old thinking lead to the same old results. Hence, we always feel especially grateful when we are able to help…
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What a training session!
We just got great feed back from a two day training session with the group marketing team of one of our clients. The energy was high…
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Net Promoter Score (NPS)
The Net Promoter Score (NPS) is something you have probably heard about. And it still seem to be discussed as the salvation to every…
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Value Proposition Design
We really like Alexander Osterwalder’s (et al’s) updated approach on designing value propositions. In his latest book, called “Value Proposition Design”, he shows a…
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Go Idea Hunting
Have you ever admired geniuses like Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, or even Steve Jobs? A genius is often thought of as a person who displays exceptional…
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The Business Model Canvas
Click to open separate window where you can download the canvas (on www.businessmodelgeneration.com). “Great products are becoming a commodity. It’s the combination between great…
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What’s your approach to business? Inside-Out or Outside-In?
An ideological gulf has opened in today’s business world, between companies that look outward for long-term value and those relying on internal resources.…
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What’s a great, differentiated customer experience really worth?
What’s a great, differentiated customer experience really worth for your company? A study conducted by Watermark Consulting has shown that it’s worth a lot. They…
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Crafting a winning Business Plan
Crafting suggests a skill in doing or making something and require knowledge. Crafting a meaningful and winning business plan hence takes thought, time and resources, and craves both business…
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How to create a Value Proposition
In business, it doesn’t make sense to focus on doing the same thing as everybody else. Especially since research show it pays off to…
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Market Research Global Price Study 2014
Are you a frequent buyer of Market Research? Then you already know that prices often differ, not always logically – based on chosen country as…
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Only 14% of employees understand their company’s strategy and direction
We recently stumbled on an interesting article by David Witt on the Leaderchat, claiming that only 14% of employees understand their company’s strategy and direction. In…
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The one number you need to grow
Two years of research and several thousand interviews with customers in different industries have shown that one simple question – in most industries –…
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Time to support new venture creation
We have a deep belief that entrepreneurship – with the power to create and grow new ideas, concepts and new ventures – is key…
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What does opportunity mean to you?
At Inquentia we passionately identify, explore and develop opportunities powering the future of our clients’ teams, brands and businesses. For us opportunity means a…
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How to cope in an increasingly complex world
We live in an increasingly complex world. Most scientists would even agree that we are living in one of the greatest times of change…
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Is your company ready for Big Data?
There is a lot of data around these days and rumor says that the typical company doubles the amount of data it stores every…
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The Best Sources for Trend Spotting
We are living in one of the greatest times of change in the whole history of mankind – and the pace of change and…
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Up for the challenge of growth?
According to a recent survey made by Bain & Company, the number one challenge for most business leaders of today is generating growth, next in…
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Customer understanding is key to innovation
Stagnation and lack of growth in many industries has increased the interest for innovation as a way to bypass the challenge and increase productivity…
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What else can you do for your customers?
Product focused and production oriented companies tend to believe their competitive advantages lie in sourcing, production, logistics and product feature innovation. However, these activities…
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Key trends driving the development over the next 50 years
We live in an increasingly complex world. Most scientists would even agree that we are living in one of the greatest times of change…
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Without change – no progress, no development…
Growth is a team effort. Change is too. However, as someone insightfully said…”Change has a bad reputation in our society. But that isn’t…
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Dreaming about innovation?
”The world’s most innovative companies enjoy a premium on their share price”, as to evidence recently shared by Hal Gregersen and Jeff Dyer in…
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20 Customer Insight Tips
Ideally you have all the money in the world in getting the customer insights you need for your next big project. If you don’t,…
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Social intelligence is changing the field of market research
The past 10 years the field of market research and customer insight has changed substantially. New technologies and social media makes online listening and…
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Why 80% of innovations fail
Creating growth through innovation has become an increasingly important challenge to many companies. To develop a new product however means a constant compromise. A…
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How companies measure social media
A recent survey highlighted a few interested findings about how companies measure the results of their activities in social media: Almost 90 percent of…
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KPCB Internet Trend Report May 2013
The 2013 edition of the annual KPCB Internet Trends report was just published. There are now 2.4 billion Internet users around the world, and…
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