by David Johnson | Nov 28, 2016 | Business Transformation, Strategy
For years, Burger King was the sick man of the quick service restaurant industry. A perennial laggard to McDonald’s in scale, the company was also widely seen as hamstrung by poor execution, a revolving door of leadership (Joe Nocera noted in 2012 that the company...
by David Johnson | Jun 14, 2016 | Strategy
“In five years, inside the enterprise, analytics is just going to be called ‘management.’” – David Wagner, “Five Intuitive Predictions About Analytics” In recent years the explosion of big data and analytics tools...
by David Johnson | Sep 24, 2014 | Business Transformation, Leadership
There is a tendency among the leadership ranks of most organizations to espouse the virtues of disruption, but only when that disruption is focused on somebody else. When incumbent leadership is unable or unwilling to drive necessary change, creditors and other...
by David Johnson | Aug 15, 2014 | Strategy
For most companies, worries about the transience of advantage can seem hopelessly theoretical. The goal for the majority of companies and their leadership teams is to achieve market dominance, not worry about the staying power of that dominance. And for...
by David Johnson | Jul 21, 2014 | Leadership
Working Capital Management often represents the most substantial performance improvement opportunities available to a company. While optimizing levels of accounts receivable, inventory, and accounts payable will not show improvement on a P&L, the reality is...