In this conversation between Des Dearlove and Marshall Van Alstyne, Professor at Boston University and author of Platform Revolution, the two discuss the nature of platforms and the three requirements for something to qualify as a platform. Listen...
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Thinkers50 Podcast: Chris Clearfield and Meltdown
Thinkers50's Stuart Crainer interviews Chris Clearfield, coauthor of Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It with András Tilcsik, about how various failures have a shared DNA. How are these failures connected? How can...
Thinkers50 Podcast: Richard D’Aveni
Would you buy a Jaguar if you knew it was 3D-printed? What other technological revolutions are underway that might radically shift power in corporations and around the world?
Thinkers50 Podcast: Ricardo Vargas
Thinkers50's Stuart Crainer interviews Ricardo Vargas, Executive Director of the Brightline Initiative, about why we need to be aware of the gap between new business ideas and their implementation. Vargas speaks to the need for urgency when you...
Only Communicate
Imagine you are a CEO. You take your top team away for a strategy session at a suitably well-furnished hotel somewhere in the countryside. Over two days of discussions, you emerge with a great new strategy for the organization. The future is mapped...
The Changing Nature Of Change
Look outside and test the temperature. Financial austerity lingers after the most major global economic crisis since World War II; shock political outcomes have created Brexit and a Trump presidency; there are 2.6 billion smartphone users, and...