Driving cost consciousness in product development with a light design-to-cost approach
26 September 2025 — Companies often face limited cost visibility and late procurement involvement, making savings hard to achieve. A lighter design-to-cost approach offers quick wins, builds awareness, and paves the way to the full process adoption.
Bringing agility to a traditional PMO to thrive in volatile situations
21 March 2024 — The program management office (PMO) has long been essential for large-scale programs and transformations. In this article, we provide a blueprint for integrating the latest best practices, with the advances in agile and lean methodologies, into a traditional PMO setup.
China ambitions in cruise sets their agenda for the full value chain
6 September 2021 — China has been actively moving towards the upstream of the value chain with ambitious plans, leaving the industry pondering what will happen next. In this article we try to shed some light on the implications.
Identifying investment targets through future-looking industry analysis
11 October 2022 — Traditionally, private equity (PE) sourcing relies on networks and industry screening, causing leads investors to compete for the same targets. Conducting future industry analysis can give PE investors an edge, identifying emerging opportunities early and building a competitive advantage.
Digital B2B customer portals – leveraging B2C learnings in the B2B world
15 September 2017 — With the increasing importance of customer experience across industries, B2B companies can differentiate by borrowing from the B2C playbook and simplifying their customer interface, facilitating relationship management, and developing digital customer portals.
A data-driven approach to validate product-market fit with early adopters
14 April 2014 — Finding product-market fit is a prerequisite for any early-stage company to achieve fast-growth. This requires a data-driven approach towards product iteration. In this article, we introduce practical methodologies and tools that we have successfully used to test and achieve product-market fit.
Securing strategy implementation through iterative operating model design
21 September 2012 — One of the most common debates in management literature is whether the strategy or the operating model should deserve more focus. The answer is usually something in between – strategy alone does not determine a successful company, but an operating model does not do that either. The trick lies in designing the equilibrium between these two; ensuring that the strategy is implemented through a good operating model design.
Business strategy and global expansion for Korean companies
17 February 2025 — In a series of seminar and webinar, hosted in Korean, we discuss the core aspects of business strategy and explore strategies for entering international markets to help identify new opportunities.