Marc Sniukas

New Book: Reshaping Strategy

Marc Sniukas — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:00:51 +0000

Strategy as practiced by companies today has many flaws. “Reshaping Strategy: Exploring the Content, Process and Context of Strategic Innovation” synthesizes more than 200 books, articles, research papers and thousands of pages on strategy, strategic innovation, blue ocean strategy, value innovation, disruptive innovation, business model innovation and related topics into a comprehensive framework, providing an [...]

Reinventing Your Business Method Cards

Marc Sniukas — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:21:08 +0000

Inspired by IDEO’s method cards, motivated by the success the Reinventing your Business series posts had and driven by the need for a workshop tool I recently created this card deck as a collection of inspiration for value innovation, market innovation and business model innovation. I used the deck with 120 managers in a large group [...]

Putting it all together

Marc Sniukas — Sat, 01 May 2010 14:42:16 +0000

There’s a lot of discussion going on on the relationship between Strategic Innovation, Blue Ocean Strategy and Business Model Innovation and how these concepts relate to each other. I gave it a shot. Here’s my first draft of an answer: Putting it all together. Putting it all together on Prezi Update: I added Christensen’s business model [...]

Workshop: Strategic Renewal – Engaging the Organization

Marc Sniukas — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:00:35 +0000

Inspiration shower for the paperJam business club in Luxembourg. It is said that 80% of strategies fail because of implementation. Yet some companies seem to be extremely good at it. What does it take for successful strategy execution? During this highly interactive workshop you will have the opportunity to learn about the elements of successful [...]

Strategy Synthesis

Marc Sniukas — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:09:52 +0000

Strategy Synthesis is the little brother of the world’s most sold text book on strategy by De Wit and Meyer. I contributed two case studies for the chapter on strategic change. One on Grohe, illustrating the company’s turnaround and one on Hilti, highlighting their continuous change and the recent innovations in their business model. Buy at [...]

Interview on Strategic Innovation

Marc Sniukas — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:51:27 +0000

Short interview done after the paperJam workshop.

Business Model Evaluation Scorecard

Marc Sniukas — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:34:36 +0000

A simple tool I recently developed with a client to evaluate ideas for business model innovations. The evaluation was used by the board to decide which ideas go into conceptualization and prototyping.

paperJam Workshop on Strategic Innovation

Marc Sniukas — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:20:49 +0000

Here’s the slide deck from a 1/2 day workshop for the paperJam Business Club in Luxembourg on strategic innovation. See pictures of the event at the paperJam website. Here’s a summary of the workshop at the paperJam website. paperJam Workshop on Strategic Innovation View more presentations from Marc Sniukas.

When the Game gets Tough, Change the Game.

Marc Sniukas — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:56:26 +0000

A recent study by The Boston Consulting Group and BusinessWeek identified that while business model innovators and product or process innovators both achieve a premium total shareholder return, business model innovators earned an average premium that was more than four times greater than that enjoyed by product or process innovators. So clearly it pays to [...]

25 Ways to Reinvent your Business. Part 3/3

Marc Sniukas — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:00:42 +0000

Part 1 of the reinvent your business series looked at “market innovation”, in part 2 I outlined 9 ways for “value innovation”. This final part will conclude the series with 8 ways to reinvent your business model. Essentialy the business model is about how to create, capture and deliver your value proposition. It’s about what [...]