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Thinking Differently about Suppliers and Customers

By Brendan LewisMay 20, 2014Strategycash, innovation

Furthering the discussion about innovating from my last post, here another upshot of a conversation I had with office mate Peter Tunjic, which I want to extend a little. Perhaps the traditional concepts of customer and supplier lead you to bad thinking and behaviour. Perhaps a better way of thinking is that there is just the

So you want to innovate like Steve Jobs?

By Brendan LewisMay 16, 2014Strategyapple, dividends, innovation, jobs

This week I had an interesting conversation with my office mate, Peter Tunjic, about innovation. Peter likes to point out that most management theories are like the Emperors new clothes – and there is usually a competitive advantage in questioning and rejecting the theories. So this weeks conversation was on how Steve Jobs innovated. Apple became the