Mark Palmer 6/30/22 Mark Palmer 6/30/22

The 50X Innovation Axiom

Mark Palmer 6/25/22 Mark Palmer 6/25/22

Three Steps to Use Streaming Data for Continuous Learning and Action

Mark Palmer 6/2/21 Mark Palmer 6/2/21

The Intrapreneuring Manifesto

Mark Palmer 1/16/21 Mark Palmer 1/16/21

Is Boldness a Gift or a Skill?

Mark Palmer 1/12/21 Mark Palmer 1/12/21

Where AI Belongs

Mark Palmer 1/6/21 Mark Palmer 1/6/21

Resilience, Briefly

I think it's far more important to execute ideas than generate them than most people realize. Leaders don’t just think great thoughts; they execute them. If you hate making tons of decisions without much information; you'll hate being an entrepreneur.

Mark Palmer 1/5/21 Mark Palmer 1/5/21

How Do You Learn to Be Resilient?

I think it's far more important to execute ideas than generate them than most people realize. Leaders don’t just think great thoughts; they execute them. If you hate making tons of decisions without much information; you'll hate being an entrepreneur.

Mark Palmer 12/20/20 Mark Palmer 12/20/20

The Hard Part

Stripe founders Patrick and John Collison remind us that great ideas can be simple. Their original payments system was 7 lines of code. Now Stripe is worth $36 billion. The idea was easy. The hard part was knowing which 7 lines mattered.

Mark Palmer 12/15/20 Mark Palmer 12/15/20

The Art of Value Realization

Streaming data science is like an algorithmic Wayne Gretzky.

Mark Palmer 12/7/20 Mark Palmer 12/7/20

Big Boss

Mark Palmer 12/5/20 Mark Palmer 12/5/20

Innovation is Culture, Not Technology

Mark Palmer 11/29/20 Mark Palmer 11/29/20

50,000 Data Chiefs

Mark Palmer 11/28/20 Mark Palmer 11/28/20

The Panera Pandemic Pivot

Mark Palmer 11/27/20 Mark Palmer 11/27/20

Too Many Fields of Dreams

Mark Palmer 11/26/20 Mark Palmer 11/26/20

The Panera Bread Blue Ocean

A critical question about Blue Ocean Strategy is whether its ideas are prescriptive or merely descriptive. That is, is there a recipe to find, define, and attack an uncontested market space? Or are they only visible after they appear, like a field of dreams? Au Bon Pain’s metamorphosis into Panera Bread shows how one blue ocean was built.