Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 14, 2020

The best strategy & innovation books deliver new insights, examples and tools for reinventing business. I’ve recently written about the disruptive change and innovation upending markets like product packaging, travel and hospitality, management consulting, construction, healthcare, and manufacturing.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

Hedgehog Model: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects The Hedgehog Model , developed by Jim Collins in his book Good to Great , is a strategic framework that helps organizations find their core focus and achieve long-term success. Enhances Market Positioning Ensures companies build their brand around a well-defined concept.

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Tim Kastelle

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Ideas that do both are what Mark Payne calls two-sided solutions in his book How to Kill a Unicorn. Here is how Peter Drucker explains a similar false dichotomy in his classic book Management : One important advance in the discipline and in the practice of management is that both now embrace entrepreneurship and innovation.

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Imaginatik

MAY 29, 2018

BOSTON – May 29, 2018 – Imaginatik today announced the publication of a groundbreaking new business book, Topple – The End of the Firm-Based Strategy and Rise of New Models for Explosive Growth. A changed competitive environment creates new rules and steps to take — as useful for start-ups as for mid-market firms and global brands.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 9, 2022

Book publishers. With the cost of printing books only making economic sense when thousands of copies would be printed, publishers needed to select authors who they thought would sell in large volumes. But in the past few decades, things have changed radically. Casting agents. Record company executives. Gallery curators.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Since I am an innovation consultant, working with Fortune 500 companies to build innovation capacity, and I regularly blog on this site about innovation topics, I often have the opportunity to review new books about innovation. In this blog, I am going to be reviewing the book Built to Innovate by Ben Bensaou.

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Your brand dominates the offline world, but digital competitors are growing fast in a rapidly changing market. No one had the right recipe, and when that happens, you can try every strategy in the book, but it wont save you,” he explains. You have three choices: merge, compete head-on, or pivot entirely. What would you do?

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 10, 2019

The companies had enormous investment in vinyl disc factories and were unwilling to consider changing formats. If the main route to market for your great innovation is blocked by naysayers committed to current products and methods, you should ask – who benefits most from this? The answer was the music recording artists themselves.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 18, 2021

Any company planning on bringing a new innovative solution to market must accept the fact that not every customer will be willing to buy it immediately. The Law of Diffusions of Innovation was first popularised by communications professor Everett Rogers in his 1962 book Diffusions of Innovations. of the total market.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. These innovation-focused book recommendations will help teach you the skills and techniques needed to grow your business and improve your company’s innovation efforts. Check out our list of design thinking books to read. Books from 2020 & Earlier.

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Digital Tonto

MARCH 12, 2023

The biggest misconception about change is that once people understand it, they will embrace it and so the best way to drive change forward is to explain the need for change in a convincing and persuasive way. Clearly, if we are going to bring about sustainable change, we need to shape not just opinions, but networks as well.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Thinkers360 Thought Leader Series – Tom Augenthaler on the State of B2B Influencer Marketing In this edition of the Thinkers360 Thought Leader Series, we interview Tom Augenthaler, 551 Media, on the state of B2B influencer marketing. Influencers reach your ICPs in ways your company marketing doesn’t or can’t.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

00:12:30 – Why creative people hate the feeling of doing “Sales”, and how to change this. 00:20:45 – Your idea of what you think the market will bear is usually wrong. Links mentioned in this episode: Book: Pricing Creativity: A guide to profit beyond the billable hour: [link]. 2bobs podcast: [link].

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

It is innovation that opens the company to new markets or changes the way customers interact with the market or the industry. You book a car for a set amount of time and you return the car after you’re done. Innovation is more than making a change. Zipcar is a good example of the breakthrough innovation.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 15, 2020

Learn what works in innovation from these ten books. Here are ten books every innovator should crack as they build a new innovation approach. This book lays out how businesses can do everything right and still lose out on innovation. Satell’s book is a fascinating take on how this happens.

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Christensen Institute

JUNE 13, 2023

From eggs and iced tea to books and televisions , the authors describe–quite convincingly–how the time-price of many products and services has plummeted. At the Christensen Institute, we espouse the virtues of market-creating innovations. Javier Lozano’s market-creating innovation targeted these people. But it can.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

As I’ve just finished leading an 18-month project, I am reflecting on how project management and leading teams is changing as Artificial Intelligence becomes more common in the workplace. If you have a project or team needing leadership and management, book an appointment with me now and we can speak about how I could help you.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

So the stresses which the tree endured growing up are exactly what makes it resilient to change and stresses in the future. Some startups think that the only way to become successful is to grow as fast as is possible when the market is going well, literally pushing recruitment, marketing and everything to their limits.

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Destination Innovation

JULY 5, 2017

There are many books and studies describing the company’s approach. He created a sense of urgency to undertake the changes ahead. David Gram, Head of Marketing at Lego’s Future Lab, said, “We only develop the few key features that are really needed. We throw it into the market and get feedback from consumers.”.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Larry Keeley in his excellent book, Ten Types of Innovation, divides all corporate innovations into ten categories. E.g. Zipcar radically changed the car hire process. Channel – how you get to market. E.g. Amazon’s Whispernet service allows users to order and download a Kindle book in one minute. E.g. Virgin.

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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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Idea to Value

MAY 29, 2023

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast , we speak with one of the most influential and prolific authors on the topics of marketing and creativity in the world, Seth Godin. Seth Godin is one of the fathers of online and email marketing, and has blogged every day for decades.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Check out these popular JTBD book recommendations. These Jobs to be Done books cover the skills and techniques of this framework in an easy to follow and understand way. Check out our lists of innovation books and design thinking books to read. Looking for even more literary choices to help you innovate? Get it here.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 24, 2020

I recall enjoying a book published a few years back, “ Innovation Governance- how top management organizes and mobilizes for innovation ”, written by Jean-Philippe Deschamps and Beebe Nelson. I am drawing from this book on some thoughts about innovation leadership. So can you recognize the traits of your innovation leader?

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The report is over 400 pages long and is framed as a guide book for all involved in the energy transition. To cover the whole energy system what we have been identified today in technology options will multiply, adapt, change, and build out different solutions as we continue to learn and advance. Small modular nuclear reactors.

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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. When should it be used: Any organisation that wants to enable their staff who have an idea to “try it out” or do an initial market experiment.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

This InnovationTraining.org guest article from Tendayi Viki is a selection from his latest book, Pirates In The Navy. To succeed, you will need support from other stakeholders such as Legal, Compliance, Brand, Finance, Marketing and Human Resources. On Understanding Your Company Before You Start Innovating. Be Authentic.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2022

As Steve Blank puts it in his foreword to O’Reilly and Tushman’s latest book on the subject: Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma: Exploitation pays your salary while exploration pays your pension. Good for marketing (“look how our company is visibly investing in innovation”).

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

If you have an event and are planning to book an inspirational speaker , ensure that the topic highlights how creativity can be enhanced, at any age. Nonetheless, the major issue which needs to be considered looking forward to 2023 is what might happen in the wider market. Your team members, leaders and customers will thank you for it.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The Winds of Change- Innovation Software facing the Innovators’ Dilemma In my research, I am getting a real sense that the current Innovation Management Software model is about to be upended and disrupted as per Clayton Christensens’ “Innovators Dilemma.” source Wikipeda) Today the reversal is happening.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

AUGUST 2, 2024

In this edition, we speak with Matthew Lieberman who is the Chief Marketing Officer of PwC US/Mexico and an innovative executive at the crossroads of marketing, media, and technology. ML: I have a non-traditional background and am not a classically educated marketer.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 18, 2024

In Power and Progress , Acemoglu and Johnson helped me understand that many new innovations and technologies are introduced into the market as efficiency innovations. The tides began to change in the second half of the 19th century. This is where market-creating innovations make their entrance. And new consumption.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JULY 17, 2020

In his most recent book Humanocracy, he lays out the case against bureaucracy and instead argues that we need to embrace what he calls “ Humanocracy ” as in build human centric organisations. The second third of the book is a case study about two organisations which have been successful in rethinking their management of their businesses.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 29, 2018

The way we think about innovation has changed over time. Over two years I believe we went through just one case study on how to produce and market a new technology (it was on fiber optics). In all cases innovation is change. Of course questions arise: What things? How new and new for whom? How useful do they have to be?

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 26, 2019

Each one of these relatively significant changes in how business operates had experts writing about "breaking the rules". Rather, what we should be working on is changing not "the rules" but how we think about business, how business operates, and how we best engage customers and their needs. He felt everything else were costs.

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