Insights / Analysis
Building Companies Around Structural Change
Structural change can create durable opportunity when its mechanism, timing and operating consequences are understood.
The central idea
Structural change can create durable opportunity when its mechanism, timing and operating consequences are understood.
Why it matters
Structural change matters when it alters cost, behavior, regulation, infrastructure or institutional power for long enough to support a new operating model.
Put it into practice
Explain the mechanism of change, timing, affected user, irreversible consequence and capability required to respond.
A question for leaders
What would change in the organization if the principle behind “Building Companies Around Structural Change” became part of its normal operating system rather than a one-time exercise?