Business and Tech

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We’ve seen a sixfold increase year over year in residents booking month-to-month leases with no predetermined end date. With the changes brought about by the pandemic, the effectiveness of a property’s website moved front and center. It’s a wave that’s taking off and if you’re not riding it, you’re being left behind.

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Phil McKinney

JUNE 11, 2023

If you are a regular reader (or a subscriber to the newsletter ), you know I rarely do product, book, or tool recommendations. Last week, I came across a book that was recommended to me by Audible. Have you ever had one of those books that is a true page-turner? This is that rare exception.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 30, 2018

You've heard it before - the pace of change is accelerating. Change is real, and change is accelerating. Whether we are talking about change in your global markets, in your industry or in your customer base, change is everywhere. The real question isn't: should we change? And so on and so on.

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 11, 2023

While researching my book "Mapping Innovation," I had the opportunity to interview dozens of great innovators, from world-class scientists to super-successful entrepreneurs and top executives at some of the world’s largest corporations. The truth is that, for innovation, generosity is often a competitive advantage.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

So, an innovative and agile organization is one that can change, adapt, and constantly introduce new things, be it improved, products, services, or processes, that create more value. For example, there are often processes that are specifically designed to eliminate risks and control change. Thus, for most, the journey won’t be easy.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

What simple thing can a company do to change their conversation / perspective about innovation? But it can also be a new process, a new combination, a new workflow – really across the board changing the existing order of things, but in such a way that new value is created. I asked them all: What is your definition of “innovation”?

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Idea to Value

JUNE 30, 2020

They were a clear pioneer in their industry with a very strong collaborative and mission-driven culture, which Founder Ed Catmull describes in detail in his excellent book Creativity, Inc. It’s really a must read book for anyone interested in creating an innovative company culture. Cultural change starts from the top.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 3, 2020

Here does lie a true competitive component and so many organizations seek to apply someone else’s practice so they can end up as “same” practice. We are facing such an unprecedented change and technology is re-writing the rule book in everything we are going to do. Change Management. Enterprise Architecture. IT systems.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

So let me tell you what this is all about, and I will describe this with heavy referencing from Geoffrey Moore’s book “ Dealing with Darwin “ Without a doubt, one of my favourite books in how it helped me piece together a large part of my dynamic innovation fitness puzzle. First, you have the internal view.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

I wrote Relentless Innovation as a way to frame some of the things I'd learned about the way culture resists change, and how a "business as usual" approach can stymie innovation. This was the start of many more free trade agreements, as other countries began to reduce trade barriers and increase global competition. Those days are over.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 6, 2020

Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:02:00 – Competitive advantages are no longer sustainable, and innovation is needed to replace these constantly. 00:04:30 – Major inflection points (a 10x change) at the time don’t look like huge shifts, it is only afterwards that they become apparent.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

The ‘product of my work’ itself is presently being worked through to be available as an e-book in the coming weeks. The intent of the e-book is to offer a practical, direct takeaway of design thinking, more of the present practices and then where it is possibly heading.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

These books can help you become a better learner. In this blog, we’ll share some of the most highly rated books about learning how to learn. This book features 6 simple steps to learn anything – find out how you can expand your knowledge without spending lots of money or dedicating thousands of hours to the process.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The term was coined and popularised by researcher & psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his 1990 book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Friendly competition can help give you something to measure yourself against.”. This is what psychologists now call a Flow State. The history of creative flow.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 1, 2017

Albert Einstein generally did not like school, but this all changed when he was 16 at Aarau High School, Switzerland where teachers nurtured his curiosity and encouraged him to ask a lot of questions and even express criticisms. Putting collaboration before competition, and autonomous motivation before rewards. Why did you do this?

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Industry borders are blurring, there are increasingly smaller, agile and highly disruptive companies working to change the existing into the new preferred. Changing established perceptions is extremely hard but potentially very rewarding. Established players that continue to choose the familiar are at increasing risk of missing out.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

The ‘product of my work’ itself is presently being worked through to be available as an e-book in the coming weeks. The intent of the e-book is to offer a practical, direct takeaway of design thinking, the present practices and where it is possibly heading. Then it is suddenly “ Huston, we have a problem. ”.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

From its beginnings in a garage selling books over the internet, it’s become a technological and social behemoth redefining not just book sales, but commerce, upending entire industries and putting pressure on entire sectors of the economy to innovate or else. Amazon is everywhere, and innovation is why.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 12, 2022

In what is probably one of the most revered books among innovators, Edward De Bono wrote about six "thinking" hats. The point of his book is to recognize and acknowledge that many people, either intentionally or often unintentionally, play roles or "wear hats" that represent a specific point of view.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 5, 2018

The new game, as demonstrated by a number of emerging disrupters, is captured in the book Unscaled and discussed at length in this nice blog post - one I wish I could have written. There are a couple of overlapping points here, but the main idea is that scale as a competitive weapon is increasingly passe.

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Leapfrogging

AUGUST 9, 2017

From retailers like Blockbuster and Borders Books to tech giants like Nokia and Blackberry, seemingly untouchable brands have been caught off guard by rapidly changing business landscapes. Why is creating competitive differentiation increasingly difficult? Change the economics. Create network effects.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Together, they reduce the risk of failure, improve the success rate of new ideas and can help build an organisation which is more resilient to change and able to grow. But I would also recommend the following books: 8 – Effective Brainstorming. Let’s get started: 15 – TRIZ.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 31, 2019

The article quotes a book (The Disruption Dilemma) writing: Disruption describes what happens when firms fail because they keep making the kinds of choices that made them successful. Notice that the core business - distributing music to consumers - didn't really change. What changed was the media and the business model.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

You can surround legacy but it diverts so much “spent energy”, it becomes the critical impediment to making that real change you so urgently require to compete in today’s’ world. The more we hang on to legacies within our companies, the more we hold up the vital changes we need to manage in the 21st century.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 7, 2018

The reliance on deeper insights, more data, greater communications is changing the way we undertake innovation. Let’s take the emerging Health Care changes going on in the U.S. This will produce concepts, solutions, and innovations that have high levels of radical change that will be built into them. A virtuous loop.

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Idea to Value

MAY 27, 2019

The mindset of competition and customer satisfaction in known areas is different from that of creating new business models. On the other hand, established companies have to penetrate silos and fortresses to get people to work on innovation-generated change. Established companies have a business to run as well as innovation to deliver.

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Planview

AUGUST 14, 2024

We hear it all the time, but change is constant, and the pace is ever-increasing. Finance and accounting professionals might naturally resist change because it’s not how our minds are trained educationally, but you have to keep yourself informed. Now, the rise of cloud service providers has marked a major change.

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Innovation Walk

JUNE 7, 2019

When we want to book a hotel we automatically go to our favourite online travel agency (OTA), also known as a booking portal. Sometimes there are deals on a certain hotel and you immediately book to save money. Here I share my thoughts on 2 rising travel innovators and the advantages of direct bookings.

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Innovators Alliance

JULY 17, 2024

Earlier this year we updated our IA Member Check-in process to include a question that asked members about their recommended entrepreneurial books, podcasts and tools. The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier. On Competition by Michael E.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

We are a small, cohesive, committed group of corporate executives, consultants, educators, coaches, and trainers who connected and maximised the differences and diversity of our group by debating how to apply innovation as the glue to achieve sustainable change everywhere. Catalysing change Lighting the fire Actions speak louder than words.

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Stephen Shapiro

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Because in my book PIVOTAL , I emphasize a crucial principle: innovate where you differentiate. Over the past 20 years, Ive constantly searched for the next book to write, the next hot topic to explore, and the next speech to deliver. What sets you apart from the competition? What gives you a lasting competitive edge?

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 17, 2022

Organizing a new business model around a customer’s job gives companies a competitive advantage and fuels its growth. In his book, Competing Against Luck, Clay Christensen shares how companies that organize their business models around serving a job to be done have a competitive advantage over those who do not.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 4, 2019

Then a good friend introduced me to the book Loonshots, which I haven't read, but did listen to a podcast about. This is one reason I have discomfort with the "Loonshots" book. I'm not here to review Loonshots, but I do want to debunk the idea of innovation and its connotation to "shots" of any kind. This was a "Loonshot".

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. His latest book, What a Unicorn Knows , is available on Amazon and reveals the secrets to building high growth startups. Here’s a Q&A with Matt that highlights the key points in the book.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 9, 2018

She's looking for people comfortable with creating and promoting change, who can help disrupt existing products and markets. Fast, Nimble, Agile, Innovative Not to toot my own horn too much, but there's a methodology aligned to this way of thinking, that my co-author and I outlined in our book OutManeuver.

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 10, 2020

We’re seeing a sea change toward remote work and how to make it more fun and effective. In my latest book, The Invisible Advantage: How to Create a Culture of Innovation , I define culture as “ the norms and values that shape behavior.” And it’s likely your competition. Shape yours today.

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CMOE

MAY 19, 2022

Markets, rivals, and the business environment all change too fast, are too complex, and are too competitive on a global scale for you not to be looking forward and leading your part of the business in a proactive way. Courageously drives change. Driving Change. Why Does Strategic Leadership Matter?

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