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The Planning Trap : Why Last Year’s Budget May Not Predict Next Year’s Market
Every summer, manufacturers begin the same exercise. Forecasts are updated. Budgets are built. Sales targets are negotiated. Marketing priorities are debated. Before long, someone opens last year’s spreadsheet and starts adjusting numbers upward or downward based on...
What Colgate Lasagna Can Teach Us About Innovation
Every few years, a list of the “worst product launches of all time” circulates online. The usual suspects appear: Colgate frozen lasagna, Pepsi AM, Cosmopolitan yogurt, and Life Savers Soda. These products are often remembered as examples of poor judgment. Yet they...
The Hardest Question in Research: Which Data Do You Trust?
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool." — Richard Feynman I recently listened to a podcast about Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped develop quantum electrodynamics and later served on...
Five Takeaways from the 2026 NRA Show — Beyond the AI Hype
After attending the National Restaurant Association Show for more than two decades, I’ve realized the event itself becomes part sociology experiment, part endurance sport, and part business intelligence gathering exercise. The cycle rarely changes. People fly into...
From Insights to Execution: Where Strategy Actually Creates Value
This is the third and final article in our series examining what “evidence-based strategy” actually means and why organizations often struggle to convert information into sustainable competitive advantage. In the first article, we explored the foundations of...
Why Good Research Still Produces Bad Strategy
This is the second article in our series examining what “evidence-based strategy” actually means and why many organizations struggle to convert research into competitive advantage. In the first article, we explored the difference between primary and secondary research...
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