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The future business leaders are facing is growing increasingly complex and uncertain. Shifts in a multitude of intersecting spheres — era-defining climate and demographic changes, extraordinary technological advances, to more customary market, regulatory, political and economic movements — are making the challenges and opportunities of the future feel more high stakes than ever. The challenges to current business models feeling ever more existential, the opportunities transformational but more costly to miss, with both feeling harder to discern. With the preceding in mind, meeting the challenges and opportunities of the future requires companies to employ astute strategic planning, robust market intelligence, a commitment to transformation, and a solution-driven approach that reduces reliance on luck.
Firms are very good at analysing individual trends—such as AI, regulatory changes, ESG, etc.—then iterating on their exiting business models, but are less good at understanding how these forces combine to reshape the fundamentals of their business models over time. To provide clients with peerless strategic guidance, I employ a framework for longer-term business model future-proofing that analyses not just companies and technologies, but how shifts in markets, regulation, climate, demographics, politics, and economics will shape future business models. These analyses then inform CVC strategy and the scouting, selecting, and vetting of the best potential partners for collaborations, partnerships, or M&As.
Leveraging years of experience and research in the field of innovation, I have consulted for multinationals and public companies—including Aliaxis, Angelini Industries, and Church & Dwight—delivering market intelligence, solutions, and strategic guidance; providing tailored insights into specific innovation verticals across diverse industries, from BabyTech to WaterTech. By leading these initiatives with rigorous project management, deep data analysis, and targeted partner validation, I consistently find effective solutions to unique industry challenges, and suggest strategies by which clients may future-proof their business models. The corporate venturing case studies provided offer a snapshot of my work; additional details or references can be shared upon request, subject to client confidentiality.