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Why your last innovation project failed?
We are incredible proud of our ECSI Consulting friend and faculty member Gary Pisano who recently published his latest book to worldwide acclaim. Gary Pisano is one of the world's leading researchers in the fields of innovation, strategy, manufacturing, and...
China’s three types of emerging innovators: how to deal with them?
We at ECSI Consulting are proud that our Faculty Partner and friend Prof. Mark Greeven recently published a widely regarded article in the Sloan MIT magazine called “Understanding China’s Next Wave of Innovation.” In this article, Mark and his co-authors describe the...
Do you have a post M&A strategy for the day after?
Unfortunately, often times the typical M&A strategy of a company is focused on getting the deal done. There are the tough negotiations, the emotional roller coaster, the communications wrangling and finally the big day is here where the leaders smile into the...
Equipping leaders with proven tools to strategically innovate
Do you know how to escape your red ocean? Last week, we hosted our inaugural Blue Ocean Explorer workshop in New York. It was a full success with leaders from around the USA attending to learn how to escape the “red” ocean of competition to create strategies...
Will the chemical industry be eaten by a “Chem-azon” platform?
Several industries have been disrupted by companies with a platform business model. Think of telecommunications and advertising (Google, Facebook, Tencent); retail (Amazon, Alibaba); travel (Booking.com); music (Apple, Spotify); and entertainment (Netflix). While...
Planning doesn’t have to be the enemy of Agile
Agile, Scrum and sprints are the current buzzwords when it comes to how managers are supposed to organize the work processes in their enterprises. In contrast, strategic planning has fallen out of favour in the views of many CEOs who are tempted to copy emerging...
Customers First? How About Noncustomers First?
One of the first steps of the blue ocean shift process is to identify the demand that exists beyond your existing industry. These are your noncustomers: buyers that don’t buy into your industry, product or service yet, which you can convert into new customers. But how...
ECSI is proud to be an official Blue Ocean Consulting Partner
In 2005, world-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne from INSEAD Business School changed the business landscape forever with their bestseller Blue Ocean Strategy, which sold 4 million copies and started a global movement on rethinking strategy. ...
Beyond Scrum: Making the Lone Wolf Less Alone – and More Valuable
Management gurus have been preaching for years that Scrum and Agile are the best methods to get work done in large enterprises. These days that notion almost goes unchallenged, and leaders race to set up their organizations in such agile/scrum fashion in order to be...
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