Perspectives — business models & platforms

Designing Sustainable Business Models

August 14, 2022 • business models & platforms • design insight • shared value & ecosystems

There’s an urgency for leaders to focus on ESG and, for those leaders who see beyond the need for compliance, who pursue innovation in strategy, in business model design and in ecosystem interaction, there are significant opportunities to reposition their businesses for advantage in this new operating context.

Catching the Next Wave through Active Exploration

October 18, 2020 • business models & platforms • digital & 4IR technologies • portfolio management • strategic foresight

If you’re not actively exploring what’s happening at the edges, you risk becoming aware of new threats to your current business model only when it’s already too late to catch the new wave of opportunity.

Creating Shared Value through Social Purpose

January 12, 2020 • business models & platforms • culture & capability • shared value & ecosystems

Much has been written about the need to review the capitalist models and the need to shift to ‘profit with purpose’ models that create ‘shared value’. Yet the rationale for creating shared value (CSV) is sometimes poorly understood, and it's important to distinguish it from corporate social responsibility (CSR).

Blockchain - Trust, Transparency & Shared Value in Global Networks

June 09, 2019 • business models & platforms • digital & 4IR technologies • value creation

In a digital, globalised world, with all the concomitant concerns of authenticity, biosecurity, financial security and money laundering, blockchain technologies are set to enable rapid, cost effective identity management, asset tracking, compliance and certainty of transaction completion.

Smart Connected Products and Devices Generating the Data of the Revolution

February 10, 2019 • business models & platforms • digital & 4IR technologies • strategy

The ‘big data’ generated by smart connected products is business’ new core asset, and capability in analytics the key to unlocking trapped value from the aggregation of multiple data sources within new data lakes. For those who move quickly, there is the opportunity to significantly expand their current industry boundaries.