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Much has been written about the fear of being disrupted. Maybe it is actually time to do a little disrupting of your own and strike fear into others. Here’s an example of a company thoroughly understanding their external environment, making a calculated move and capitalizing. The client was a successful, mid-tier player in a…
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Competition in Financial Services has always been intense amongst industry rivals. Increasingly, firms find themselves competing with Financial Technology (FinTech) start-ups going after a selective slice of the market with a disruptive offer. Many FinTech firms have billion dollar valuations, are flush with cash, and are leveraging low cost, cloud-based delivery models. While incumbent…
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According to Accenture’s report, Top Five Digital Health Trends for 2016, “Disruption can be a game changer if a business can predict it.” Here are the trends they identify and break down: Intelligent Automation – big data, digital apps and devices handle the basics allowing people resources to focus on higher value tasks Liquid…
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In a past life, I held the position of a product manager for a company that was the leader in a substantial and mature industry. As a product manager, I learned many things: First I learned that the product manager role in any organization is extremely hard work and not for the faint of…
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A key observation in Geoffrey Moore’s latest book, Zone to Win, is that modern businesses are profoundly impacted by disruption plus speed coupled with the tension between protecting the existing business from disruption and innovating to catch the next wave. There is no simple answer. Where do you focus amidst all the chaos? Organizations…
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For every industry there is a ‘current state’ and a ‘future state’. The space between them is called ‘change’….and in an industry like health care, the term ‘chaos’ is more appropriate. This chaos can represent either opportunity or threat, depending on an organization’s ability to understand and respond by making the right decisions and…
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Welcome! This – the creation, care, and feeding of the Line of Sight Group consultancy – all started as a passion for two kinds of challenges: the challenge of impacting the strategy of organizations, and the challenge of making sense of seemingly random data and turning it into meaningful, strategic insights upon which our clients…