Beyond Strategy
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October 23, 2020
Last week I got to spend five and a half hours with one of the most influential strategic thinkers alive today, Gary Hamel. He has written five global best-selling books, published 17 papers in Harvard Business Review, and has taught at London Business School for 30 years. But most importantly, Gary
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How NPR Leapt Forward in Proximity
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September 11, 2020
In March of 2008, the United States’ national public radio system (NPR) seemed to have a fatal and too common choice: to bet on the past rather than the future. It’s the kind of decision that has initiated the fall of many once-great companies: Toys “R” Us, Polaroid, Borders, Macy’s, Radio
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Finding Your COVID Altitude
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August 26, 2020
When an airplane hits turbulence, it seeks a new altitude. One without turbulence. Even better, one with tailwinds. Now, COVID has certainly injected turbulence rarely seen in history. But is this turbulence universal? Is every sector of the economy under threat? A little-known investment fund is pr
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PillPack, Proximity, and the Amazon Future of Pharmacies
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August 20, 2020
If you want to predict the path of innovation in your industry, consider one unifying strategic concept: proximity. Introduced by innovation guru Rob Wolcott, proximity is the theory that the production and provision of value moves ever closer to the point of demand. Viewing your industry through th
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Four Steps to Outthink COVID
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June 10, 2020
We are dealing with unprecedented change invoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. What we need more than ever is a sense of hope. So, we’ve taken The Outthinker Process – a strategic process that helps business leaders step outside of conventional thinking to redesign their business models and strategi
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What Today’s Most Influential Business Thinkers Recommend for Managing Through COVID-19
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June 05, 2020
In March, as the reality of COVID-19 started taking hold, when my team received our fifth request in one day to postpone a keynote speech and my calendar was suddenly, unexpectedly, free for months, we sat down to discuss what to do. We figured that (a) other business thought-leaders are similarly,
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The Most Important Strategic Question To Ask: What Business Are You In?
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March 05, 2020
As I write this, I’m resting in an elegant second-floor hotel lobby overlooking the cobblestone streets of a pedestrian shopping district in Dublin, Ireland. Over the past 48 hours, I’ve delivered nine hours of speeches and workshops, conducted three podcasts and radio show interviews, and come
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Play: The Source of Innovation
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February 03, 2020
In the 1830s, an artist and tinkerer, Samuel Morse, directed his curiosity to a question few had considered before. Numerous scientists and inventors across the globe were working on the problem of how to communicate across long distances more quickly. At the time, information could travel only as f
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For 2020, Consider the Wisdom of NOT Planning
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December 20, 2019
Twenty years ago, long before we had children, my wife and I decided to spend Valentine’s Day weekend in Tuscany. We were living just a two-hour flight away in London at the time, so leaving on a Friday and returning on a Monday would still mean two days and three nights of rolling hills, wineries
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Your Innovation Needs a Sponsor … Here are 6 Signs You Have the Right One
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December 04, 2019
That historic moment when the perfect team unifies beyond an opportunity, pregnant with possibility, is the essential scene of any great innovation legend: think Jobs and Wozniak when they created Apple, Gates and Allen with Microsoft, or Page and Brin with Google. This is why so many books and prof
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We Get Innovation Wrong Because We Measure the Wrong Thing
Outthinker
September 02, 2019
What you measure matters. Consider a bridge built in Laufenburg, a town that straddles Germany and Switzerland. As the two halves of the bridge being built came together, it became (embarrassingly) clear that they would not align because they were at different heights.
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The Future of Netflix: Why Critics Were Looking in the Wrong Places
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July 30, 2019
Netflix made headlines recently for their unexpected decline in new subscription growth and drop in subscriptions in the US, which pushed their stock price down. Critics are asking if Netflix’s business model is relevant in the changing competitive environment, when Disney and other content owners have started pulling back their content from streaming services like Netflix in order to build their own.
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WHEN FOSBURY FLOPPED: THREE LESSONS FOR DISRUPTORS
Kaihan.net
July 16, 2019
In 1968, Olympic fans and athletes watched in bemusement as a college sophomore jumped over the high bar backward. Until that day, every gold medal winner, indeed every Olympic athlete, who had competed in the high bar had gone over forward. Dick Fosbury literally turned his back on that tradition … won the Olympics …
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SEVEN WAYS TO SQUELCH INNOVATION
Kaihan.net
June 18, 2019
Sometimes they don’t know it themselves. When they do, they hide it. But they are out there. Executives, managers, and business owners who want to stem innovation. If you no longer want your organization to try new approaches, if you believe that the best path to growth is to keep doing what has been working for years, this guide is for you.
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STRATEGY AS PLAY: LESSONS FROM URBAN OUTFITTERS
Kaihan.net
June 05, 2019
The word “strategy” too often brings to mind images of uptight executives in boardrooms, with heavy binders and spreadsheets, debating critical choices. Experts will tell you strategy is “a plan of action designed to achieve a major or overall aim.” Strategy is a science, and it’s serious.
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THE FORTRESS AND THE SHIP: HOW TO MANAGE YOUR CORE BUSINESS WHILE SEEKING NEW INNOVATION
Kaihan.net
May 23, 2019
In a glass-walled boardroom overlooking the Hudson River wrapping around downtown Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty in the distance, our guest lecturer flicked on one of the strangest slides I’ve seen. Juxtaposed against a sleek, modern room were two medieval paintings. One of a fortress. The other of a ship.
This was one of our Outthinker Strategy Network Roundtables. Fifteen heads of strategy of Fortune 500 companies were discussing the challenges and methods for managing innovation with Kellogg professor Rob Wolcott. What Wolcott said next had all our CSOs scribbling notes.
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WHAT TO IGNORE ON “MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES” LISTS
Kaihan.net
April 09, 2019
The folks at Fast Company and Forbes this month released their annual “most innovative companies” lists. Like many of us, I look forward to these lists every year. By championing those companies bold enough to challenge the status quo, they inspire all of us to do something different. By sifting from masses of companies the few that we should admire and emulate, they bring clarity to our innovation efforts.
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Top 10 Trends your Chief Strategy Officer Should Be Thinking About in 2019
Kaihan Krippendorff
March 04, 2019
The future matters. Just ask anyone, or any organization, who thinks they don’t have one. All of your greatness today – your people, products, partnerships, brands, operations, capabilities, culture, customers – will not matter for long unless they are working together, as part of a strategy,
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Moving Beyond Your Hierarchy
Kaihan Krippendorff
February 26, 2019
For years I’ve sat on the opposing side of hierarchy. That rigid concept in which orders are barked down from above and complied to from below has robbed our corporations, governments, and social institutions of freedom. Many of the management thought-leaders we, at Outthinker, admire argue the sa
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Thinkers50 Radar List: How Thinkers Foresee the Future
Kaihan Krippendorff
January 23, 2019
Last week, I was accepted on the Thinkers50 Radar list, composed of 30 management thinkers to watch in 2019. How I made the list, I am not quite sure. The entrepreneurs, researchers, advisers, and organizational leaders included in this list constitute a humbling collection of minds. But upon hearin
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Lessons from Netflix: How to Systematically Unlock Internal Innovation
Kaihan Krippendorff
January 17, 2019
Do your people go into the kitchen … or do they go home? When Kat Cole, a waiter at a local Hooters, learned there were not enough cooks that day to serve food, she watched as other waiters hung up their aprons. No food to cook means no food to serve, they figured. But Kat
The post Lessons from Ne
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Blockchain ≠ Bitcoin
Kaihan Krippendorff
December 11, 2018
When many hear the word Blockchain, they think immediately of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. This is an unfortunate mistake. You can classify types of Blockchains across two dimensions: Permissionless v. Permissioned: “Permissionless” Blockchains allow people to act anonymously (you do not
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Driving Innovation from Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs
Columbia Business School Publishing
October 22, 2019
Conventional business wisdom tells us that entrepreneurs are society’s main source of innovation. Young founders leave college with a big idea, get to work in a garage, and build something that changes the world. Typical corporate employees, strangled by slow-moving bureaucracy, are blocked from making transformative discoveries.
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The Way of Innovation
Kaihan.net
July 01, 2018
Inside The Way of Innovation, corporate strategist Kaihan Krippendorff explains how you can adapt and thrive by recognizing, understanding, and utilizing the ancient Asian approach to innovation. He illustrates how companies like Microsoft and Nokia use this powerful wisdom, and how you too can pass through the five stages of innovation:
Metal (Admit you are stuck)
Water (Conceive new winning options)
Wood (Assemble your resources)
Fire (Break out your innovation)
Earth (Make it sustainable)
With this book, you have the ancient strategies you need to lead the way to a more productive – and profitable – future.
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Hide a Dagger Behind a Smile
Kaihan.net
February 01, 2018
Today’s global economy is a battleground. To survive and thrive, you’ll need every weapon you can get. Microsoft, Sony, and Starbucks use business practices based on the ancient Chinese military text The Thirty-Six Stratagems – now you can, too.
Business is warfare. Western business has been inculcated in the belief that business is about win/win solutions. However, in today's global marketplace there isn't fairness - there are winners and losers. Today's competitive terrain calls for new tactics as well as an understanding of how your opponents approach the world.Using ancient Eastern philosophy and military tactics from "The 36 Stratagems", "Hide a Dagger Behind a Smile" shows how to create unpredictable corporate strategies.
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The Art of the Advantage
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June 01, 2017
Contrary to commonly held beliefs, strength and resources play minor roles in a company s ability to beat the competition. Instead, the ability to conceive of unorthodox strategies that the competition will choose not to copy is the key to gaining a competitive edge. In "The Art of the Advantage," former McKinsey & Co consultant Kaihan Krippendorff captures a decade of study into corporate conflict. He shows that the fundamental patterns that successful companies have used to outmaneuver their rivals are rooted in a set of ancient Chinese warfare metaphors known as "The 36 Stratagems." "The Art of the Advantage" marries these ancient principles with modern application through graphical depictions, ancient examples, and modern case studies. More than a traditional business book, "The Art of the Advantage" is a manual for systematically outthinking the competition.
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Outthink the Competition
Kaihan.net
December 20, 2011
A “Fast Company” blogger and former McKinsey consultant profiles the next generation business strategists: the “Outthinkers.”
“Outthinkers” are entrepreneurs and corporate leaders with a new playbook. They see opportunities others ignore, challenge dogma others accept as truth, rally resources others cannot influence, and unleash new strategies that disrupt their markets. “Outthink the Competition” proves that business competition is undergoing a fundamental paradigm shift and that during such revolutions, outthinkers beat traditionalists.
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Keynote for United Technologies
United Technologies
September 11, 2019
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CoBank Keynote
CoBank
August 22, 2019
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Tackling Disruption with the resources you have – story of Dick Fosbury, Kaihan Krippendorff
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July 09, 2019
Through the story of Dick Fosbury jumping over the high-bar backward, keynote speaker Kaihan Krippendorff illustrates the concept of disruption and innovation using the resources at your disposal
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4th Option Strategy - Story of URBN Outfitters, Kaihan Krippendorff
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May 29, 2019
Excerpt from a keynote in which Kaihan Krippendorff shares the story of Urban Outfitters and how they pieced together innovative fourth options and strategies to grow faster and outperform their competitors.
Kaihan is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers on the topics of business, strategy, and innovation. Kaihan is passionate about helping companies that recognize the need to move away from traditional linear models to embrace agile, digital strategies for the accelerating world. Kaihan is approachable and easy to work with to customizes speeches that blend industry-specific information and challenges with his real-world experience and credibility. This guarantees an energizing performance that not only inspires but moves an audience to action.
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TEDxColumbia University – Driving Innovation From Within, Kaihan Krippendorff
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July 25, 2018
“Employees are the number one source of innovative growth options and the only remaining source of true competitive advantage. Arming them with the skills and tools necessary to innovate on a continual basis is of paramount importance to organizational survival.”
– Kaihan Krippendorff
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Executive Symposium
Executive Symposium Thought Leaders
June 06, 2018
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Wharton Security Industries Institute Keynote and Workshop
SIFMA
March 05, 2018
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Women's Leadership Program FIU
FIU
February 01, 2018
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American Chemical Society Keynote
American Chemical Society
January 11, 2018
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Keynote Donnelly Financial Solutions
Donnelley Financial Solutions
September 27, 2017
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Keynote for National Association of Insurance Commissioners
NAIC
May 15, 2017
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PCMA Business School – Designing for Disruption
PCMA
May 16, 2016
Kaihan being interviewed after his keynote at PCMA.
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IMEX Frankfurt
IMEX
April 20, 2016
5000+ attendees from 150 countries at IMEX global conference.
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#1 Keynote Speaker Kaihan Krippendorff Highlights Reel - Strategy, Growth, Transformation
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March 08, 2016
Kaihan is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers on the topics of business, strategy, and innovation. Kaihan is passionate about helping companies that recognize the need to move away from traditional linear models to embrace agile, digital strategies for the accelerating world. Kaihan is approachable and easy to work with to customizes speeches that blend industry specific information and challenges with his real-world experience and credibility. This guarantees an energizing performance that not only inspires, but moves an audience to action.
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Keynote for Leadership Summit
McDonalds Corporation
September 15, 2015
McDonalds Annual Leadership Summit 2015
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TEDx Finding the Fourth Option, Kaihan Krippendorff
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April 27, 2015
Innovators from Richard Branson to Mahatma Gandhi share the practice of seeking “fourth options” where others have accepted three. They do it through stories, a.k.a. “strategic narratives”. Kaihan will shares the five strategic narratives shaping our world today.
Kaihan Krippendorff is the CEO of Outthinker LLC (www.outthinker.com), a former McKinsey consultant and author of four business strategy books (most recently Outthink the Competition). He writes one of the most popular blogs on Fastcompany.com and is the founder of the Outthinker Network, a global community of creative innovators.
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Google Growth Faculty Keynote
Google
May 01, 2012
Kaihan Keynote to Google Growth Summit Australia
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Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award for Innovation Nominee
Thinkers50 Radar 2019
Founding Fellow of Center for Leadership
Parsons School of Design
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Outthinker Strategy Network
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Participating Faculty, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation
Top Trending Innovation Speaker
Wharton Executive Education
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