experimentation – Exploiting Change

Why and How I Experiment with New Technology

Richard Martin March 26, 2023 No Comments

It’s not enough to sit there and wonder how a new approach, technology, or product could be of benefit. We have to try it, or at least experiment a bit to see what it’s all about.

After the fire: Post-action leadership

Richard Martin December 12, 2016 No Comments

Too many leaders miss a golden opportunity to learn from the grass-roots, explain their decisions, and improve by increasing future readiness. This is when leadership is often hardest, because everyone just wants to get back to business as usual.

What Goes Up… The S-Curve and it’s many applications.

Richard Martin September 8, 2016 4 Comments

One of the most useful ideas for conceptualizing any kind of change process is the S-curve. The S-curve is the way natural and human phenomena grow and develop over time.

Make small, probing advances with new or modified products, services, capabilities, and business models

Richard Martin July 13, 2015 No Comments

You learn more by moving than by staying put. The normal impulse is to stay put and defend your position when you don’t know where to go or what to do. Unfortunately, this leaves you open to rapid change in the market as well as competitive threats.

Target Should Have Started with a Bridgehead and Phased Expansion in Canada

Richard Martin January 19, 2015 No Comments

Last week Target announced that it was shutting down completely its Canadian operation, all 133 stores, and taking a $5.4 billion writedown. What was originally supposed to be the beginning of a glorious international expansion has turned into a lesson in humility and hubris.

Nouvelle offre de Richard Martin — Le « Briefing de préparation au combat »

Richard Martin December 3, 2014 No Comments

Pour mieux préparer vos troupes à votre prochaine offensive, faites donc appel à… un militaire !

Richard Martin: New Videos on Continuous Innovation & Process Improvement

Richard Martin November 17, 2014 No Comments

The Demise of Intermediaries

Richard Martin October 2, 2014 No Comments

The increasing success of Uber, the direct-to-driver taxi service, has led me to reflect on the most recent trends in business strategy. I believe we’re now witnessing the demise of intermediaries.

Experiment by advancing on a wide front and probing for opportunities and gaps

Richard Martin September 22, 2014 1 Comment

Creativity necessarily entails failure, mistakes, false starts, setbacks, opposition, etc. Most creative individuals produce a lot of low quality output, much more in fact than

How to Grow By Generalizing… or Specializing

Richard Martin July 1, 2014 No Comments

One of the main challenges in business is finding a way to grow. A company can choose the acquisition route. This is what Richardson GMP did last year when it acquired Macquarie Private Wealth to become Canada’s largest independent (i.e. non-bank) wealth management firm. GE is currently in the process of acquiring France’s Alstom to expand its energy business, while Medtronic is buying Covidien to expand the range and scope of its medical device offerings.

Why and How I Experiment with New Technology

After the fire: Post-action leadership

What Goes Up… The S-Curve and it’s many applications.

Make small, probing advances with new or modified products, services, capabilities, and business models

Target Should Have Started with a Bridgehead and Phased Expansion in Canada

Nouvelle offre de Richard Martin — Le « Briefing de préparation au combat »

Richard Martin: New Videos on Continuous Innovation & Process Improvement

The Demise of Intermediaries

Experiment by advancing on a wide front and probing for opportunities and gaps

How to Grow By Generalizing… or Specializing

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