Kaihan Krippendorff

The Evolution of Strategy: From Competition to Customers to Employees

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This audio was recorded by an AI program. In the 1980s, business strategy was dominated by competition. Michael Porter introduced the concept of competitive advantage. Strategists and business leaders became obsessed with differentiating their business from the competition by taking market share and becoming, as General Electric famously was, number one or number two in […]

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If Entrepreneurship Were a Sport

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This audio was recorded by an AI program. I was at the Jersey Shore a couple of weeks ago, spending time with my family and enjoying slow, relaxed mornings. I would wake up at 8am and sip my cup of coffee while sitting on our balcony overlooking the water and the dunes. It was a

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Outthinker Networks’ 2024 Strategy & Innovation Summer Reading List

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Click here to listen to an AI recording of this post. For strategy and innovation leaders, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. Our annual Outthinker summer reading list aims to bring you the most impactful and thought-provoking books that are shaping our field. Throughout the year, we’ve curated this list from member recommendations, the

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Macroeconomic Insights and CSO Career Paths: Key Takeaways from Outthinker Networks’ Strategy Roundtable in New York

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This audio was recorded by an AI program. On June 12, 20 chief strategy officers (CSOs) and innovation executives convened for a roundtable in New York City. The event, hosted by Heidrick & Struggles in the iconic One Vanderbilt building, brought together peers leading strategy and innovation across organizations and industries. One Vanderbilt, a sleek

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Rethinking Resource-Based Strategies

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This audio was recorded by an AI program. Last week, I traveled to Chicago to deliver a keynote speech on strategy and innovation to an inspiring group of leading executives and suppliers in packaging at the AmericaPack Summit. In preparing for the speech, it became clearer to me that packaging is going to be an

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A Lesson in Innovation from the Equality State

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This audio was recorded by an AI program. Which U.S. state or territory was the first to allow women to vote? If you answered “Wyoming,” you’re correct. On December 10, 1869, Wyoming passed the first women’s suffrage law, granting women voting rights in hopes of attracting more female settlers to the rugged West. When Wyoming

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Widening Your Strategic Aperture

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This audio was recorded by an AI program. Do your strategy conversations feel constrained or lacking in creative options? It may be time to expand the aperture of your strategic discussions. Let me explain. Neuroscientist Min Jung shared in a recent podcast that to come up with creative ideas, our brains need time to enter

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The Lens for Today’s Disruptive Trends: Understanding Proximity

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The Increasing Pace of Change Corporate leaders and strategists today express feeling overwhelmed. They are trying to keep pace with and make sense of a proliferation of potentially disruptive trends, including generative AI, 3D printing, digitization, robotics, and a flood of data, and all of this is happening within a context of increasing change –

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The Hidden Secret to Scaling Success: Buy Low and Sell High with Customer Lifetime Value

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If there is any law in business that would be Newtonian, fundamental, or the first building block of all knowledge, it would be this: You buy low and sell high. Empires were built on this principle. Thousands of years ago, traders and merchants made their living off it. Whether oil or fine china, wine or

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Five Ways to Measure Organizational Culture

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As Peter Drucker famously observed, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” An organization may develop an airtight strategy on paper, one that is consistent with what the company says it values and with the initiatives everyone agrees are most important. But when it comes down to it, strategy is lived and breathed through culture. Chief strategy

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