Design Advantage : The Secret to Creating Long-Term Value 7

Design Advantage : The Secret to Creating Long-Term Value 7 Derived from: Roger Martin’s The Design of Business RAP5 : The Reliability Bias PROFIT : Reliability, predictability and consistency are crucial for business. They enable us to make promises to our customers and deliver. They enable us to earn income to pay staff wages, overheads […]

Design Advantage : The Secret to Creating Long-Term Value 6

Design Advantage : The Secret to Creating Long-Term Value 6 Derived from: Roger Martin’s The Design of Business RAP4 : Design ThinkingPROFIT : Our usual logic frameworks follow the scientific traditions to determine what is true and what is false. Design Thinking takes a different course. It’s based upon what’s possible in the future and […]

Advantage : The Secret to Creating Long-Term Value 5

Design Advantage : The Secret to Creating Long-Term Value 5 Derived from: Roger Martin’s The Design of Business RAP3 : Opportunities PROFIT : The Knowledge Funnel highlights four distinct opportunities to design, re-invent, innovate and exploit your business. The opportunities we create will depend upon where we start, where we finish and where we re-visit. […]

Design Advantage : The Secret to Creating Long-Term Value 4

Design Advantage : The Secret to Creating Long-Term Value 4 Derived from: Roger Martin’s The Design of Business RAP2 : The Knowledge Funnel PROFIT : The key to Value Creation lies in our use of what we know and don’t know. If we don’t know how something works, we can’t exploit it. Roger Martin’s Knowledge […]

Design Advantage : The Secret to Creating Long-Term Value – 3

Design Advantage : The Secret to Creating Long-Term Value – 3Derived from Roger Martin’s The Design of BusinessRAP1 : The Business Paradox PROFITWhat’s the best way to create value for your organization?Surely, it’s to make the most of the opportunities right in front of us.That may work for a while.And at some point, you need […]

Design Advantage : The Secret to Creating Long-Term Value 2

Design Advantage : The Secret to Creating Long-Term Value 2 BR Review : The Design of Business Roger Martin, The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage; Harvard Business Press, Boston, 2009. Précis If you want short term results stick to your numbers that prove the past. If you want long […]

Design Advantage : The Secret to Creating Long-Term Value

A new Book Rapper issue…Design Advantage : The Secret to Creating Long-Term Value The Book Roger Martin, The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage; Harvard Business Press, Boston, 2009. Speed RAP The key to value creation in any organization lies in the development of knowledge. Unlocking problems, issues and mysteries […]

What does it mean to be ‘Live’? Part 4

What does it mean to be ‘Live’? Part 4 Following from our previous posts on the ‘The Virtual Presenter’, “What does it mean to present in the ‘live’ world?” In this series of blog posts, we’ll take a tour of some of the industries that have already grappled with this question. 4 Comedy The role […]

What does it mean to be ‘Live’? Part 3

What does it mean to be live? Part 3Following from our previous posts on the ‘The Virtual Presenter’, “What does it mean to present in the ‘live’ world?” In this series of blog posts, we’ll take a tour of some of the industries that have already grappled with this question.1 Theatre2 Music 3 MoviesWhen movies […]

What does it mean to be ‘Live’? Part 2

What does it mean to be live? Part 2Following from our previous posts on the ‘The Virtual Presenter’, “What does it mean to present in the ‘live’ world?” In this series of blog posts, we’ll take a tour of some of the industries that have already grappled with this question. 2 Music Talk about comebacks! […]