August, 2023 - Outthinker

Unraveling Digital Transformation with Michael Lenox

Leave a Comment / Digital Transformation, Strategy / Cori Dombroski

In a rapidly evolving landscape driven by technological advancements, the world of business is witnessing a paradigm shift. For business leaders, understanding the core technologies underlying this transformation and the strategies to harness their potential is vital. Michael Lenox, award-winning professor, consultant, author, speaker, and podcaster joined the Outthinkers Podcast to offer his valuable insights […]

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Cultivate An Innovation Mindset Across Your Company

CSO Perspectives, Featured, Innovation, intrapreneurship, Leadership, People, Strategy / Cori Dombroski

For many businesses today, the opportunity of joining or building an ecosystem of alliances is important to holistic success.

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Navigating Complexity and Uncertainty with Agility

Leave a Comment / Strategy / Cori Dombroski

Companies today exist in an era of accelerated change. Competitive lines are being redrawn at lightning speed as entire industries are disrupted seemingly overnight. In this environment, the old rules of strategy no longer apply. As business leaders, we need to embrace a whole new logic of competition if we want to future-proof our organizations.

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Big A** Insights for Business Model Innovation

Innovation / Cori Dombroski

In the early 1990s, most large industrial facilities and warehouses in Dallas were hot, literally. They didn’t have air conditioning and left the engineers and workers inside drenched in sweat. Carey Smith, an entrepreneur who had grown up in unairconditioned homes, spotted a business problem he could solve. Throughout his childhood, his family would spray

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10 Tactics to Drive Innovation When Resources Are Scarce

Innovation, intrapreneurship / Cori Dombroski

For many businesses today, the opportunity of joining or building an ecosystem of alliances is important to holistic success.

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Four Keys to Attracting Long-Term Investors

Leave a Comment / Strategy / Cori Dombroski

As business leaders and strategists, it’s our job to increase the long-term value of our companies. To do so effectively, it helps to understand what experienced investors are looking for when assessing an organization’s attractiveness and future success potential. That’s why I invited Ralph Birchmeier, an investment veteran with decades of experience analyzing and investing

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A Tipping Point for Sustainability

Leave a Comment / proximity, Sustainability / Cori Dombroski

Consumers want sustainable options but few have been willing to pay much to get them. Such has been the conundrum that hinders companies aspiring to pursue more sustainable business strategies. The formula doesn’t balance. It pits financial interests against societal wellbeing, a dilemma that complicates a company’s calculus with investors, partners, suppliers, channels, and regulators.

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The Overlooked Dangers of Microstresses at Work

Leave a Comment / Leadership, People / Cori Dombroski

In my recent podcast interview with Rob Cross, co-author of The Microstress Effect with Karen Dillon and co-founder of the research consortium Connected Commons, we dug into the surprising impacts that minor, everyday stresses can have on employees’ health, engagement, and organizations’ effectiveness. While massive crises understandably capture our attention and cause stress, Cross’ research shows that it’s actually

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August 2023