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Olu Akanmu

Sharing my extensive, unique, multi-industry C-Suite, commercial experience across financial services, telecommunications, consumer goods, healthcare care and non profit industries on business strategy, marketing, management, leadership and public policy. Follow me on LinkedIn. http://linkedin.com/in/olu-akanmu-88280a. Twitter @OluAkanmu. Please send questions and comments to olusfilespodcast@gmail.com

  1. 04/11/2023

    Growth Mindset: Fostering a Culture of Innovation and Transformation in Organizations

    10 Reasons Why (Traditional) Companies Struggle with Innovation. A leading Insurance Company invited me recently to speak to them on this topic at their Managment Retreat. The podcast discusses the challenge of fostering a strong growth mindset in traditional companies who do not typically think like startups and upstarts., and what these traditional companies could do to address the challenge- foster a strong growth mindset in their organizations #growthmindset #innovation #transformation #digitaltransformation #management #strategy #organisationculture #organisationbehaviour #banking #insurance #fintech

  2. 03/11/2023

    Blue Ocean #Strategy in #Payments and Financial Services

    I was recently invited to speak to the Advance #Management Program Class of the Lagos Business School on this topic. I thought it would be useful to do a podcast edition of my presentation and share with a broader audience. We cover in this episdode a) General overview of Blue Ocean Strategy and link it to related strategy concepts b) We discuss five key questions in the context of Blue Ocean Strategy 1) How do you identify points of dissatisfaction with existing products and service offerings (offered) by traditional players in an industry? 2) How do you acquire customers ? 3) How do you acquire partners and distributors? 4) How do you develop a strategy that explores opportunities in the blue ocean space? 5) How do you build a system capable of executing the #blueoceanstrategy? #strategy #payment #financialservice #fintech #fintechs #business #businessschool

  3. 03/11/2021

    Innovation Challenge in Traditional Firms (Part 2): Marketing Myopia, Legacy Anchors & Solutions

    This continues from the Part 1 episode, discussing why traditional firms struggle to innovate and why they are being beaten by #agile upstarts with potential existential crises. In this episode, we discuss marketing myopia problem and how it constrains innovation in traditional firms. We also discuss the challenge of legacy assets. The podcast concludes with solutions for re-propelling innovation in traditional firms from the problem diagnosis in both Part 1 and 2 episodes, including lessons on how Microsoft reinvented itself back to a strong #innovation company. #management #strategy #execution #business #leadership #digital #technology

  4. 03/11/2021

    Innovation Challenge in Traditional Firms (Part 1): Efficiency Pursuit & Unintended Consequences

    Why do traditional firms struggle to innovate? Why are they being beaten by agile, nimble upstarts and facing existential crises? I discuss three cases of large traditional firms, Alitalia, General Electric and Microsoft, their #innovation challenge and lessons that could be learnt by other large firms from #telecoms, #banking, #media etc. This is part 1 of the podcast. The discussion continues and concludes in the next Part 2 episode of the podcast. #strategy #digital #management #organisationalbehaviour #technology

  5. 14/09/2021

    Customer Insights as the Heart of Strategy for Scale and Precise Targeting

    What customer insights are, how to discover them and their application to building and scaling your business

  6. 15/07/2021

    Digital disruption of traditional businesses and what we can do about it

    On Digital disruption challenge in the consumer goods industry. What lessons could the consumer goods industry learn from financial services and other industries being massively disrupted? Was invited recently by Nigeria Breweries (Heinekens Nigeria) to share learning on disruption of financial services and other industries and what the consumer goods industry could learn from it. This edition of my podcast is a recording of the very engaging session. #digital #disruption #fmcg #consumergoods #innovation

  7. 06/06/2021

    40 Leadership Reflections- Part 2

    In this Part 2 episode, I share another 22 Leadership Reflections, using the reflective verses style of the Stoic Philosophers of the Roman Classics. This follows Part 1 of this series where I had earlier shared the first 23 Leadership Reflections. Leadership issues in covered in this episode include dealing with non-linear leadership decisions, trust and leadership, authentic leadership, leading with purpose, transactional and transformational leadership and many more. Please listen to both the Part 1 and Part 2 to get a complete view of the 40 Leadership Reflections. #leadership #business #nonprofits #wisdom

  8. 03/06/2021

    40 Leadership Reflections- Part 1

    I share 40 Leadership Reflections in this podcast that will help you to be a better leader using the reflective verses style of the Stoic Philosophers of the Roman Classics. This Part 1 of the podcast shares the first 23 Leadership Reflections covering issues as atmosphere for performance, leadership vision, leadership agenda and strategy, the art of leading by questions and many more. Also listen to Part 2 of the Podcast for a complete listening to the 40 and more Leadership Reflections. #business #nonprofits #leadership #wisdom

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Sharing my extensive, unique, multi-industry C-Suite, commercial experience across financial services, telecommunications, consumer goods, healthcare care and non profit industries on business strategy, marketing, management, leadership and public policy. Follow me on LinkedIn. http://linkedin.com/in/olu-akanmu-88280a. Twitter @OluAkanmu. Please send questions and comments to olusfilespodcast@gmail.com

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  • Creator
    Olu Akanmu
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2023
  • Episodes
    18
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