Dirk Beveridge: Innovation Strategies

Dirk Beveridge: Do you believe? Do you trust?

Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Last night over dinner I was asked by a client CEO, “What stops execution of strategy, plans and initiatives.”

Dirk Beveridge: The demise of distribution?

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Distribution is dead.

OK, I don’t want to be hyperbolic. So, let’s try this: Distribution “as we know it and we’ve relied in the past doesn’t exist anymore.”

Dirk Beveridge: Surround yourself with like-minded individuals

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Here is a counterintuitive thought … surround yourself with like-minded individuals.

Dirk Beveridge: Own every second

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0500

As we ring in the New Year, the math tells us there will be 31,536,000 seconds 2020.

Dirk Beveridge: Transformative leaders drive innovation and change

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0500

Roughly 72% of distribution leaders believe the pace of change is too slow in their business. Leaders in distribution must define their “next.”

6 ideas you missed at Unleash Innovation Summit 2019

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 18:28:00 -0500

UnleashWD Innovation Summit 2019 has wrapped up and once again, I’m bouncing off the walls with the energy created by all the smart, engaged, creative people I met.

Dirk Beveridge: New business models drive change and innovation

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0500

Our relevancy is not guaranteed. When you think of what happened to powerhouse businesses such as Kodak, Blockbuster, Sears, Toys R Us, BlackBerry, RadioShack, Nokia and others … it is a cold sense of reality that our business model of the past is no guarantee of relevance and profitability tomorrow.

Dirk Beveridge: 9 strategic planning lessons

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Over the last 36 months, I had the opportunity to lead strategic planning workshops for associations, buying groups, independent distributors and one manufacturer.

Dirk Beveridge: Vision drives change and innovation

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Without vision there is no change, transformation and innovation. Sam Walton, the iconic founder of Walmart Stores once said, “Capital isn’t scarce, vision is.”

Dirk Beveridge: The innovative distributor

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Distribution leaders find themselves in a once-in-a-career opportunity to create a culture of change, transformation and innovation.

Dirk Beveridge: An innovative distributor

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Every distributor that wins the future will be an innovative distributor.

Status quo is the enemy: Creativity is your friend

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Wed, 08 May 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Many businesses are pulled to yesterday … what made us relevant and profitable yesterday.

Dirk Beveridge: Innovation inversion rule

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Dirk Beveridge, UnleashWDThe Innovation Inversion Rule states that the urgency of innovation and the ability to innovate are inversely related.

Dirk Beveridge: What's in a name?

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Why did International Business Machines become IBM? Or Apple Computes, why did it simply become Apple? Or how about CINTAS? Why is CINTAS no longer Cincinnati Towel and Apron Service. And most recently, why is Dunkin Donuts, dropping Donuts, and just becoming Dunkin?

Dirk Beveridge: Hungry and humble

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Over the last five months I have had the good fortune of facilitating important and dynamic conversation between 17 industry leaders.

Dirk Beveridge: Innovative Distributor Mindset: What is your next?

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0500

We are in an age where every distributor must be asking themselves, “What is their next?”. We understand and honor the history and the success that all of our businesses have enjoyed.

Dirk Beveridge: Bring reality into your business

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 11:13:00 -0500

At the time Stavridis was the commander of U.S. Southern Command (SouthComm) headquartered in Miami with responsibility for planning, operations and security cooperation for Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Areas of focus at the time included narco-terrorism, 21st century gangs, drug trafficking, money laundering and mass migration.

Dirk Beveridge: Culture becomes imperative

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0500

The realization that a company’s culture drives the business will become the mantra of leadership.

Dirk Beveridge: Business model evolution: Product categories

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0400

As businesses and industries consolidate and integrate, the most relevant distributors will be a hybrid business.

Dirk Beveridge: Surviving the inflection point

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0400

The distribution industry is currently at an inflection point.

Dirk Beveridge: Overcoming commoditization

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0400

We live in a world of abundance. A world of suitable options.

Dirk Beveridge: eco-system of solutions becomes primary

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0400

A higher level of customer intimacy, business acumen, partnering capabilities and strategic-consultative selling will become imperative.

Dirk Beveridge: Change how the customers buy from distributors

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Business model evolution.

Dirk Beveridge: Innovative Distributor Mindset 8: Own the future

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Fri, 18 May 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Distributors living in “the age of disruption.”

Dirk Beveridge: Innovative Distributor Mindset #7: Value Creator

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:03:00 -0400

Innovators create value for those they serve — their customers.

Dirk Beveridge: Innovative Distributor Mindset #6: Doer

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:11:06 -0400

All of the mindsets to this point share the common themes of optimism, energy and even creativity.

Dirk Beveridge: Innovative Distributor Mindset 5: Experimenter

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0500

With risk comes reward.

Innovative distributor mindset No. 4: Challenger

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0500

Innovators challenge the status quo

The innovative distributor mindset: Intellectual

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0500

Innovators are thinkers; they approach business — and life — with a natural curiosity that leaves them open to new ideas and new ways of thinking.

Innovative distributor mindset: energized and optimistic

dirk@unleashwd.com (Dirk Beveridge) — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500

Underlying the innovation theme is the idea that we, as business leaders, are in charge of and responsible for our future.