“The Future Won’t Wait. Neither Should You.”
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Meet Mike Wokosin: Author, Consultant, Change Catalyst
With 25 years of leading digital transformation for Fortune 500 companies, from data monetization pivots and M&A integration to global platform transitions and scaled digital infrastructures, I’ve experienced firsthand what it takes to adapt under pressure.
For the past eight years, I’ve brought this experience to digital strategy courses for MBA students and professionals, bridging academic research with the realities of practice. Overclocked brings those experiences together, offering readers a pragmatic framework grounded in both theory and lived transformation.
As AI and blockchain drive global competition at a faster pace, business leaders need Overclocked more than ever.
What stands out most is how carefully Mike has built a system of clarity: behavior-to-outcome matrices, horizon engines, quadrant positioning, velocity, and adaptability multipliers. This isn’t just theory, it’s a fucking navigation system for anyone smart enough to employ it.
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OverClocked: The Konami Code for Business
Strategy isn’t in a binder; it’s the operating system that runs your entire enterprise. This section rewires leadership, strategy, disruption, and infrastructure into a living system that senses, adapts, and compounds advantage.
Without this foundation, everything else is just noise in the machine.
Organizations that can operate in Black Friday mode continuously will capture value that others miss during their planning cycles. They’ll respond to market shifts while competitors are still detecting them. They’ll optimize customer experiences in real-time while others are scheduling A/B tests for next quarter.
OverClocked’s “every day is Black Friday” model provides the operational blueprint for enterprises that want to compete in real-time markets.
Recent Insight:
Latest essays and reviews, updated weekly.
The Recalibration of Corporate Venture Capital
Corporate venture capital (CVC) has shifted gears. Once dismissed as “innovation theater,” it has now become an essential operating system for strategic learning and competitive velocity.
The Rise of Vertical Agentic AI Platforms
A silent revolution has been unfolding through 2025, an operational rewiring that shifts artificial intelligence from assistant to actor. The enterprise has moved past the novelty of copilots whispering suggestions in chat windows.
Data Clean Rooms, The Privacy-First Engine for Agile and AI Marketing
In 2025, marketing finally looks more like a lab than a loudspeaker. The best brands are not broadcasting; they’re experimenting in real time.
AI and Personalization, The Engine of the Kinetic Economy
In 2025, personalization stopped being a marketing tactic; it became an operating system. The word “hyper-personalization” no longer .
Velocity and Organizational Design, Building the Adaptive Enterprise
The competitive edge in 2025 isn’t strategy. Its speed with structure. As markets compress and AI automates execution, the real differentiator is how.
The Velocity Operating Canvas, A Kinetic Augmentation of the Business Model Canvas
In 2010, the Business Model Canvas (BMC) gave leaders a powerful way to describe how their organizations create, deliver, and capture value. It was elegant, visual, and structural, a blueprint.
Research: & Insights That Shape the Future
1. The Business Value of Digital Literacy: What the Research Shows
A substantial body of research confirms that digital literacy drives measurable business performance. Peer-reviewed studies employing structural equation models across multiple firms have demonstrated that digital literacy significantly enhances digital business transformation outcomes and correlates with long-term business sustainability.
2. Maturity Models: A Practical Lens for Digital Progress
From Chaos to Capability: Using Digital Maturity Models to Guide AI and Blockchain Adoption Boardrooms universally discuss AI implementation, and many organizations actively explore blockchain applications. Yet beneath this surface enthusiasm lies a more fundamental question:
3. The New Definition of Readiness in the Kinetic Economy
Every company possesses presentation materials about AI implementation. Many experiment with blockchain applications. The more challenging question cuts deeper: if these technologies became mandatory competitive requirements in your industry tomorrow, would your adoption
4. From Plumbing to Strategy: Infrastructure as the New Differentiator
For decades, infrastructure occupied the invisible backbone of business operations. Servers processed transactions, ERP systems managed workflows, and networks maintained connectivity. Leadership attention focused elsewhere unless systems failed. That organizational model has become obsolete.
5. Beyond Transactions: Why Business Model Agility Separates Winners from Laggards
Two companies can offer nearly identical products, yet one thrives while the other fades into irrelevance. The differentiating factor often lies not in product superiority but in business model design. For decades, many organizations built success on transactional economics—selling physical products once, booking revenue, and moving to the next customer.
6. Disruption & Adaptation: Why Humility Outlasts Arrogance
Every organization faces inflection points where established business models confront fundamental challenges. The differentiating factor between those that survive disruption and those that become cautionary tales rarely involves technological capability or resource availability. The critical variable is organizational humility, the willingness to acknowledge
Deep Dive:
Practitioner research, reinterpreted.
The Kinetic Economy: From Transformation to Business Model Reinvention
On a foggy Tuesday in April, a small Midwest grocer noticed something unusual. The price of avocados on its digital shelf flickered three times in two hours, once up, twice down, without a single merchant intervening.
The Price That Moved Itself: AI Dynamic Pricing in the Kinetic Economy
On a humid Friday in July, a mid-market outdoor retailer in Ohio watched a familiar SKU turn unfamiliar. A $129 camping stove, steady for months, sold out online in six hours.
The Merchandiser Who Could See Around Corners, AI-Driven Product Portfolio Management
In the early 2000s, retail strategy moved like a freight train, powerful, linear, and painfully slow to turn. Online and offline channels ran on different clocks.
The Hidden Fault Line: Why Infrastructure Now Decides Who Wins and Who Collapses By Mike Wokosin
The Unsung Hero Becomes the Star For decades, infrastructure was the quiet backbone of business. Data centers, logistics networks, enterprise software,
Proximity Beacons to Web3, Lessons Learned and a Playbook for What Wins Next
Between 2014 and 2018, proximity beacons promised to make the physical world “clickable.” Pilots bloomed across retail, venues, campuses, and cities; few escaped pilot purgatory.
The Data Dividend, How Monetization Became the Next Business Model Pivot
In the industrial economy, data was exhausted. In the digital economy, it became an asset. In the kinetic economy, it’s becoming a product with its own cash flow.
The Data Dividend (Part II) | The Industrial Data Market, How B2B Networks Are Monetizing the Invisible
If consumer platforms made data visible, industrial ecosystems are making it valuable.
B2B markets, manufacturing, logistics, energy, and finance are discovering that their next profit.
The Business Value of Digital Literacy, Why Fluency, Not Just Tools, Drives Transformation
In most firms, technology arrives long before people are ready to use it Dashboards go unread. Automation licenses sit idle. AI pilots run, stall, and fade.
The problem isn’t infrastructure, it’s fluency.
Business Model Agility, Why Transactions Alone Are Falling Behind
For much of the 20th century, the transaction was the heartbeat of business Sell a unit, record revenue, move on. Scale came from volume; growth came from distribution.
Signals to Watch:
Trends and experiments shaping the next wave.
The Rise of Data Capital Markets
For centuries, capital markets traded the visible, commodities, equities, and credit. Then they learned to trade the invisible: futures, options, risk.
From Chaos to Capability, Using Digital Maturity Models to Guide AI and Blockchain Adoption
Every boardroom is talking about AI. Many are experimenting with blockchain.
When Breakthroughs Become Baseline, Early Indicators That AI, Blockchain, and Spatial ...
Gaming has always been the proving ground where emerging technologies evolve from experiment to expectation.
Asymmetry as Advantage, How Emerging Markets Are Rewriting the Digital Adoption Curve
For years, “emerging markets” were treated as the next frontier. Today, they’re at the forefront. Because when legacy.
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From airline miles to interoperable, portable rewards.
“The Immersive Testbed: Why Gaming Predicts the Future of Commerce”
Stress-testing infrastructure, incentives, and UX.
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“The BlackBerry Problem: Why Velocity Beats Scale”
Case study of missed signals, applied to today’s AI adoption.
“5 Quiet Ways Blockchain Is Already Changing Business”
Behind-the-scenes use cases in retail, media, and supply chain.
“AI as the New Operating System for Business”
Moving beyond automation → real-time decision engines.
“The Loyalty Wars: How Tokens Rewrite Customer Engagement”
From airline miles to interoperable, portable rewards.
“The Immersive Testbed: Why Gaming Predicts the Future of Commerce”
Stress-testing infrastructure, incentives, and UX.
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“The 7 Rules of Competing in the Kinetic Economy”
A concise, shareable manifesto that encapsulates the book’s thesis.
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