- On the Canary Blog you'll find tool reviews, step-by-steps, checklists, how-to's and inspirational case stories. In this post, you'll get links to all the case stories on the blog.
- Case Stories are about one organization and how it navigated a major change, to show you how your peers have tackled it.
- All case stories come from my personal experience, so you'll get practical, real-world, working insights in their context, that you can adapt to your situation.
Real Estate | Future Customer Profiling
- The client planned a 30-year investment and needed information about customer needs in this time period.
- Find out if this foresight method is for you.
Innovation to Prepare or Respond for Change
Surviving the Battle Against Fierce Competition
HighTech | Power of Timing
- The SME client faced competition from Big Tech but found ingenious ways to win the battle.
- Tips to circumvent intense competition that will work in any industry.
Unlocking Innovation by Breaking Siloed Teams
HighTech | Unlocked Potential
- The client learned how his organization could profit from the expert work within siloed teams, each working on a specific product-market combination.
- Inspiration to check your organization for the same opportunity.
Escaping a Negative Price Spiral
Wholesale | Repositioning
- The client repositioned the organization as the innovative advocate for its customers and moved from just a player to the top 3 in its market.
- Inspiration to make your innovative positioning visible.
Innovating Away from a Negative Cash Flow
Hospitality | Yield Innovations
- The client faced a negative cashflow and did not have the financial power to buy marketshare or launch intensive advertising campaigns, but got away with innovation.
- Tips to pick and choose the innovation with the highest yield and the lowest cost.
Ways to Spark Engagement for Change & Foresight
The Bus Tour that Changed an Organization
Retail | Instilling Urgency
- The client used a super easy to organize but intense tool to break top team inertia and spark real change.
- Tips to make this solution your own.
Public Sector | Long Term Thinking
- Answers to a common question of lower-level managers: what can I do to convince our higher levels to pay attention and act on emerging disruption?
- Tips to change tactics.
Strategy Isn't Created in a Meeting
Energy | Flow
- The ways you can let strategic discourse bubble up.
- Inspiration from the super exerienced.
Learnings From Suboptimal Strategies
Ten Year Overview | Lean Consequences
- The client had worked on getting the organization lean, but realized that accelerating digitization in its context required more.
- Tips to adjust Lean Management for Changing Environments.
The Problem With Strategy Consultants
Business Services | Demystifying Strategy
- The client hired an expensive big name from the consulting industry, only to find that his message did not resonate and had minimal effect.
- Tips to internalize strategy.
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