of short-term profitability, but by the goal of continuous innovation in service of finding new ways of delighting customers? The new bo!om line of this kind of organization becomes whether the customer is delighted. Conventional financial measures such as maximizing shareholder value are subordinated to the new bo!om line. Profit is a result, not a goal. Clayton Christensen
have to start with its purpose… There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. The customer is a foundation of a business and keeps it in existence. The customer alone gives employment. Because it is the purpose to create a customer, any business enterprise has two – and only two – basic functions: marketing and innovation. Peter Drucker
(where we explore the boundaries of the problem we’re trying to solve), an exploration phase (where we toy with different possible solutions), and a refinement phase (where we choose a direction and fill out the details). Not everyone does design projects well, but the folks who do end up following these three phases. The ones who don’t, well, they skip one or more of these stages then regret it later. Jared Spool
motorcycles WHO… for macho guys (and macho “wannabees”) WHERE… mostly in the United States WHY… who want to join a gang of cowboys WHEN… in an era of decreasing personal freedom
Toolkit • Zag: The Number One Strategy of High-performance Brands • The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail • The Practice of Management • The Future of Marketing: Make Things People Want or Make People Want Things? • Blue Ocean Strategy: How To Create Uncontested Market Space And Make The Competition Irrelevant • Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers • Agile and the horizon effect