The Trillion Dollar Club CNBC; Steve Denning With yesterday’s brief admission of the technology firm Nvidia Corporation to the “Trillion Dollar Club”— i.e. those firms with a market capitalization of more than a trillion dollars —CNBC’s Brian Sullivan reported that the five largest firms now have a combined market cap of more than $9 trillion; they now comprise 25% of the entire U.S. stock market—which now consists of almost 6,000 companies . The question becomes ever more pressing for all the other public firms: “What are digital-age winners doing that we aren’t? Why could we do to create such value for our customers that might in turn enable such astronomic valuations?” While historical factors played a role, the continued resilience of the digital-age winners suggest that their success has a lot to do with how they are managed on a daily basis, and what the other firms are not doing. Yet there is little general agreement as to what those success factors are or how they differ from what the less successful firms are doing, or how to depict them in an intelligible fashion. The big news is that a digital diagnostic tool is now emerging that depicts the […]