Nicholas Kontopoulos's List: Thought Leaders

• How to Reverse a Mistake in the Middle of It
• I have two strategies that help me pull back my own momentum: Slow Down and Start Over.
• If I hired someone and invested energy and money supporting his success, it would be hard for me to admit he's not working out. But, knowing what I know now, would I hire him? If not, I should let him go
• In many cases they tell me it's because they didn't want to appear weak. But it takes great strength of character to admit you're wrong or even to question your own views.
• Great leaders have enough confidence to look critically at their own perspective and stay open to other people's points of view, using the technique of Slowing Down

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• A good strategy is the product of the creative combination of two disparate logics — rather than a single linear analytical logic flow — but CEOs and "strategists" are seldom conditioned to become skilled at the requisite creative combination.
• The two most fundamental strategic choices are deciding where to play and how to win
• Apple wins because its where-to-play choice — broad participation across a number of high-involvement consumer electronics categories (computers, music, phones) — is matched wonderfully with its how-to-win choice — competing on user experience design and eco-system orchestration. It leverages the winning capabilities it has built in these two areas across the domains in which it has chosen to play to produce its winning Macs, iPods, and iPhones.
• That takes creative insight. But the majority of people who seek to become corporate strategists or strategy consultants do so because they are much more comfortable with analysis than what they perceive as guesswork. So they tend to become expert at strategic analyses, not strategy.

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• HCL: Extreme Management Makeover

• uess' experience is a great example of what HP's Mott calls the "innovation feedback loop," and it's a big reason he's trying to slash the average time it takes to complete an IT project to three months
• Guess' experience is a great example of what HP's Mott calls the "innovation feedback loop," and it's a big reason he's trying to slash the average time it takes to complete an IT project to three months.

• Great article to use when crafting presentions or blog posts that centre on the need for IT and LOB to come togeather - Nicholas Kontopoulos on 2011-05-17

• Ten IT-enabled business trends for the decade ahead
• 1. Joining the social matrix
• 2. Competing with ‘big data’ and advanced analytics
• 3. Deploying the Internet of All Things
• 4. Offering anything as a service
• 5. Automating knowledge work
• 6. Engaging the next three billion digital citizens
• 7. Charting experiences where digital meets physical
• 8. ‘Freeing’ your business model through Internet-inspired personalization and simplification
• 9. Buying and selling as digital commerce leaps ahead
• 10. Transforming government, health care, and education

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