Marc Sniukas

Workshop: The Who, What, How of Strategic Innovation.

Marc Sniukas — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:25:24 +0000

Inspiration shower for the paperJam business club in Luxembourg. During this highly interactive workshop you will have the opportunity to learn about a new approach to strategy. Drawing on concepts of business model innovation, breakthrough strategy, Blue Ocean Strategy and disruptive innovation, we will have a look at a comprehensive framework for thinking about how to [...]

Tiger to end his silence. What Accenture might have done better.

Marc Sniukas — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:05:50 +0000

While this Tiger Woods story has not been that featured in Europe, I came across several articles this week while being in the US. Honestly I don’t care what Tiger did or did not do and whether he wants to share his motives or not. What I find interesting to look at though is how Accenture reacted [...]

Be Bold. Be Brave. Be Innovative.

Marc Sniukas — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:15:32 +0000

I saw a presentation by Shaun Smith at the London Business Forum on his new book to be published towards the end of the year today. Smith argues that a major shift is happening in business and society currently and that organizations need to become bolder, braver and more innovative to remain relevant. One can’t argue [...]

Business Model Innovation Workshop in New York

Marc Sniukas — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:37:05 +0000

I’ll be in New York from February 16 – 19 to plan a 2 day public workshop on business model innovation together with Eric Pöttschacher from shapeshifters. Contact me if you’d like to meet or if you want to receive more information on the workshop.

What is Strategy?

Marc Sniukas — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:01:24 +0000

Nobody really knows actually. But here are a couple of thoughts that might help you to put things in perspective. The presentation has been viewed almost 20 000 times on slideshare…so I guess it must be of some value! What is strategy? View more presentations from Marc Sniukas.

25 Ways to Reinvent your Business. Part 2/3

Marc Sniukas — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:16:16 +0000

In part 1 of the reinventing your business series, I outlined 1 general approach to business reinventing, and 7 ways to invent new markets and customer segments, we could call it "market innovation". This post will focus on your value proposition and I will describe 9 ways to value innovation and provide inspiration on how to enhance the value you offer: "Value Innovation". Remember, reinventing your business is a matter of switching perspectives and challenging your mental models and the "way we do things around here". It could well be that you employ #9 already, but then pick another one that suits you better. It's not about implementing all 25 ways at the end. But it's about choosing those that will bring you further. Also don't go for the easiest one. Look at the list and think about which idea irritates you the most. Why is that so? What is your mental model in that area? Why don't you believe that something like this can work? Why do you believe that others do work? Use the ideas not only to inspire yourself and your team, but also as a way of exploring your cognitive maps. Now let's get started, shall we?

25 Ways to Reinvent your Business. Part 1/3

Marc Sniukas — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:52:52 +0000

Any goals for 2010 yet? What about reinventing your business? Let me share 25 ways on how you can get started. This is the first post in a 3 part series on how to reinvent your business. The series is build around the who-what-how framework. Your business is defined by who you consider being your customers, [...]

Driving Innovation: How to get started?

Marc Sniukas — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:17:26 +0000

Some random thoughts: Put innovation (define the type of innovation you’re looking for) on the agenda Take and allow time for creativity and slack Encourage people to pursue ideas Make innovation a central topic of your training and development programs Allow for small scale experimentation. “Just do it.” Set aside resources for these experiments. Create and use diversity in knowledge, people and [...]

Organizing for Innovation

Marc Sniukas — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:54:14 +0000

Looking at the literature on the role of top management in innovation, one often comes across the instruction to create an organizational context enabling and driving innovation. But what does such a context look like? I went through about 100 articles and studies and summarized my findings…here they are. First of all we have to look [...]

On the difference between a Strategy and a Business Model

Marc Sniukas — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:46:04 +0000

During a recent doctoral workshop at Zeppelin University on business model innovation (BMI) we had a discussion on the difference between a business model and a strategy. Business model innovation can be seen as one outcome of strategic innovation. (Have a look at my definition for other outcomes.) On the strategy level a company makes choices [...]