Destination Innovation

JUNE 8, 2023

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? With this new online Udemy course you can quickly absorb the key ideas and principles in best-selling busines books by watching short video lectures. But how much time would it have taken?

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Alex Pang, founder of Strategy and Rest, a consultancy devoted to helping companies and individuals harness the power of rest to shorten our workdays, while staying focused and productive. 00:29:30 – What a change to a 4 Day Workweek might be like for a company.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

How to Be a Valuable Team Player During Times of Change: Strategies for Success In today’s constantly evolving business world, change is inevitable. Whether it’s a new project, a shift in leadership, or an overhaul of processes, change can be both exciting and challenging.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

The canvas prevents this by offering a structured method for aligning innovation strategy with customer insight. It informs messaging, go-to-market strategies, and brand positioning by articulating clear, relevant benefits. For example: Functional: Filing taxes, booking travel, or managing team workflows.

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Stephen Shapiro

JANUARY 10, 2022

For 2022, I am working on a new book – and I would love your input. This next book is a prequel to Invisible Solutions and addresses the “Focus” portion of the model. This next book is a prequel to Invisible Solutions and addresses the “Focus” portion of the model. Happy New Year!

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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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Tim Kastelle

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Their strategy was that they would use the awards and the attention that they generated to inspire manufacturers to make their incubator. Ideas that do both are what Mark Payne calls two-sided solutions in his book How to Kill a Unicorn. This is a lesson that Timothy Prestero and his organisation Design that Matters learned painfully.

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Digital Tonto

JULY 2, 2017

Making change happen takes more than just passion and fervor, but strategy, organization and discipline. Related posts: Summer Reading List: 17 Great Books Every Innovator Should Read. Summer. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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

MAY 27, 2019

On the other hand, established companies have to penetrate silos and fortresses to get people to work on innovation-generated change. To survive and thrive established companies have to choose between two sets of strategies – tart-up or start-up. Tart-up strategies. Start-up strategies.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? 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.

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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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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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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 14, 2015

While many companies scramble to create disruptive innovation strategies, the problem is that it isn’t a linear process or methodology. No single strategy or theory (even the theory of disruptive innovation itself) has captured how it really works or how to do it. Was it part of their strategy? Fast forward to today.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 15, 2020

Learn what works in innovation from these ten books. Part of building a great innovation strategy is to learn about the history of innovation. 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.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

It’s a common question when building innovation strategy. 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.

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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. Ensure your portfolio is balanced according to your upcoming strategy. If there is indeed a recession coming our way, this will impact the majority of companies.

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Digital Tonto

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

In his book, Identity, political scientist Francis Fukuyama explains that our identities aren’t fixed, but develop and change over time. In fact, we routinely choose to add facets to our identity, while shedding others, changing jobs, moving neighborhoods, breaking off some associations as we take on others.

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Leapfrogging

AUGUST 9, 2017

Here are 5 Business Model Strategies and Tools for Strategic Business Growth. 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. Do we need a new strategy and business model?

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s that time of year when organizations close the books for the current year and start focusing on the next. As you work through your annual planning, it’s important to consider your annual innovation strategy as well. Preparing Your Annual Innovation Strategy. Systematizing Your Innovation Strategy.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 12, 2019

As someone who works for a strategy consultancy, it becomes clear that for most companies, there is a disconnect between what they say their strategy is, and how they actually behave. I recently rewatched the excellent TEDx talk by Karen Dillon (video above), on Do You Have a Strategy for Your Life?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

That’s because they try to apply processes and structures that don’t fit their business strategies and cultures. I had the chance to take a look at the new book “Built to Innovate” by INSEAD professor Ben Bensaou. It reminded me how important it is to highlight the ultimate organizational design principle: Structure follows strategy.

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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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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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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Recently I had the opportunity to interview Whynde Kuehn, author of the new book Strategy to Reality. Whynde is a recognized global thought leader and a long-time pioneer, practitioner and educator in digital transformation, strategy execution and business architecture, a foundational discipline for enabling […].

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Michael Roberto

MARCH 13, 2025

Source: Wikipedia This week, Southwest Airlines announced a major strategy shift. This latest change comes after other major changes including the move away from open seating, announced in July, as well as the decision to sell tickets on platforms such as Expedia. For that reasons, investors are cheering.

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Matthew May

AUGUST 28, 2015

I started developing a visual tool for team facilitation of strategy development over two years ago, after I learned the Playing to Win framework from Roger Martin. Lafley’s book, Playing to Win. Disclosure: Roger Martin has seen the various iterations and advised me on changes.). Draft a new strategy.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 6, 2020

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Professor Rita McGrath, one of the world’s most respected experts on the intersection between strategy and innovation. 00:03:00 – Resource allocation is really at the core of strategy, and innovation requires these investments as well.

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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. Leadership support needs to go beyond just words that encourage innovation to doing the following: Strategic Guidance : Leaders must provide innovation teams with an innovation strategy that makes explicit where to play.

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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. No overall innovation strategy or portfolio. Multiple different innovation strategies.

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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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IdeaScale

MARCH 30, 2021

Overview: Sustainability approaches and innovation strategy go hand-in-hand, yet too often are seen as separate targets. Well before “climate change” turned up in quarterly reports, angry residents were complaining about the air quality, the toxic waste, and other impacts on the value of their homes. Incorporating Into Goals.

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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2024

Unlock the strategies to overcome key PMO hurdles—mastering resource management, driving change, and streamlining processes—with expert insight from Athena Smith, Senior Director, Portfolio Management. What sparked that change? Solving PMO Challenges How do you navigate the change management challenge?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Then, we envision lists of questions and prompts that could have triggered their innovative strategies. Perusing snapshots of food innovators screamed out to me: take notes and describe the strategies these individuals are using, although not typically calling out in the article. 94 Ideas to Imagine Innovative Growth Strategies.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 8, 2022

One interesting fact is that newly promoted managers book 29% more meetings than more experienced managers. First, a new of the findings about the negative impacts of too many meetings: The number of meetings which teams have every week has increased over the past few years. 70% of all meetings prevent people being productive.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

As Steve Blank well put it in his article , reorganizations, new innovation activities, and process reforms, are all useful tools that usually need to be a part of the transformation plan, but they’re not enough without a strategy, mindset, and culture for innovation. So, what is it exactly that makes an organization innovative and agile?

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