Outthinker is a growth strategy consulting firm that prepares businesses for an agile, digital, purpose-driven world. Our proprietary process consistently accelerates growth by 100-120%. Read more…
Consulting Services
Growth Strategy Consulting
We specialize in growth strategy consulting and help organizations avoid the trap of defaulting to repetitive, predictable strategies and instead design vibrant approaches to thrive in an agile, digital, and purpose-driven future.
Learning Solutions
Our learning solutions draw on the study of hundreds of history’s most competitive companies from Walmart and GE to Google and Baidu. Starting with our core workshop – The Outthinker Process – we help businesses unlock breakthrough growth strategies that their competitors overlook.
Strategic Incubation
We believe in organizations willing to step out into the future today. We put our fees at risk to work alongside select mid-market businesses meeting our Outthinker® profile that are looking to implement a bold growth strategy.
Blogs
Thinkers50 Radar List: How Thinkers Foresee the Future
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…
Lessons from Netflix: How to Systematically Unlock Internal Innovation
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…
Fear of Self-Cannibalization, Facebook Early Warning
In this insightful article, Kara Swisher notes that one big reason that Instagram’s co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, decided to leave was that the popular site was pulling users away from the “big blue” platform that is the core Facebook product. Clanging sounds…