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Jan 7, 2025 | 
linkedin.com | Kaihan Krippendorff
In our pursuit of innovation, we often pressure ourselves to create something entirely new. But what if the key to breakthrough innovation isn’t starting from scratch, but rather intelligently borrowing and adapting ideas from other domains? Steve Jobs noted, "Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
linkedin.com | Kaihan Krippendorff
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
linkedin.com | Kaihan Krippendorff
Happy Thanksgiving Week to all! I hope you are enjoying some rest, relaxation, and time with loved ones. While I’m preparing a turkey and gathering with my family in Philadelphia, I’d like to share one more of Outthinker’s most popular posts of all time. This post was originally published in 2015, but it’s still highly relevant almost 10 years later. One of the most common challenges in our community of chief strategy officers is creating strategic alignment in the organization.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
linkedin.com | Kaihan Krippendorff
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
linkedin.com | Kaihan Krippendorff
Like most organizations, our Outthinker Networks community of chief strategy officers has been exploring the strategic implications of generative AI (GenAI) throughout the year. This month, an insight from our roundtable with Michael Jacobides of London Business School brought remarkable clarity to our discussions.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
linkedin.com | Kaihan Krippendorff
The First 90 Days as a Chief Strategy Officer Kaihan Krippendorff Kaihan Krippendorff Published Oct 31, 2024 As a new chief strategy officer (CSO), your success will ultimately be defined by how effectively your strategy office drives strategic direction, gains buy-in, and enables business outcomes. Unlike established functions such as finance, operations, marketing, and sales, the strategy office is often a blank canvas.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
hbr.org | Kaihan Krippendorff |Robert C. Wolcott
Talk to a group of business strategists today, and many will tell you that their organizations are in a state of decision paralysis, overwhelmed by the implications of several of rapidly developing trends — AI, IoT, digitization, and 3D printing to name a few.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
linkedin.com | Kaihan Krippendorff
A couple weeks ago, Outthinker Networks members and guests converged in Dallas, TX, for our latest strategy and innovation executive summit. Hosted by Sidley Austin LLP , the event brought together 30 executives leading strategy and innovation across industries. This gathering of minds yielded valuable insights on cultivating organizational culture, crisis management, and how companies can better bridge the persistent gap between strategy and execution.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
linkedin.com | Kaihan Krippendorff
The following is an updated version of a post that was originally published in 2016. It is so easy to miss! When the future was lobbing softballs at you, you could hit the trends every time. But now the future has upped its game. It’s throwing fastballs and curveballs. Who would’ve predicted five years ago that NVIDIA, a company that made graphics for video games, would be worth almost three trillion dollars today?
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
linkedin.com | Kaihan Krippendorff
I just returned from an exciting trip to Qingdao, China. In addition to eating brains and snails, I saw something that blew my mind when I visited a Haier washing machine factory. To the common observer, the process to create the appliances simply looks like parts coming together. But upon taking a closer look, I realized it was a view into the future of all industries. Beyond Just-in-Time At first, I didn’t realize what I was looking at.
