Destination Innovation

APRIL 8, 2022

The Peter Principle was expounded in the 1969 book of this name by Canadian educator, Laurence J. If you do not promote your top performers you might lose them to competition. Laurence Peter (1919-1990). It states that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their level of incompetence. They then stay there.

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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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

What’s the secret to a winning business model and long-term competitive advantage? Your customer experienc e may just be the ultimate competitive advantage. What makes the repeat dimension so powerful is that it involves positive feedback effects that, over time, can create a tremendous, sustainable competitive advantage.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 23, 2024

He speaks about when he set his goals, he almost always set his ultimate measure of success as being “the best”: When I wrote my first business book, The Idea Book, I wanted it to be ranked as one of the best. Other business books which outsold his. There were always other speakers who earned more than him.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 23, 2017

Competing Against Luck is the rather curious title of a new book by the eminent innovation guru, Clayton Christensen, ably assisted by three acolytes, Hall, Dillon and Duncan. The authors argue that managers focus mainly on product features, customer characteristics, trends, market data and competitive offerings.

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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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Innovation Excellence

MAY 30, 2019

One of the most rewarding things about writing my book Mapping Innovation was talking to the innovators themselves. All of them were prominent (one recently won the Nobel Prize), but I found them to be the among the kindest and most generous people you can imagine, nothing like the difficult and mercurial stereotype. At first,

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 30, 2020

What’s the secret to a winning business model and long-term competitive advantage? Your customer experience may just be the ultimate competitive advantage. Strategy and innovation experts Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch just published a new book called Connected Strategy: Building Continuous.

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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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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. In this competitive field, it’s crucial to not just keep up with trends but to be trendsetter yourself. The pandemic accelerated the digital transformation of these processes for many landlords and property owners.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 29, 2020

I've been reading a fair number of books and articles lately about digital transformation. If this sounds a bit dire, try reading the book entitled The Big Nine by Amy Webb. While there is some benefit to centralized planning and control, there are also benefits to competition.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

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. Competitive disadvantage: A delayed or failed project can allow competitors to move ahead, capturing market share and innovation opportunities. Book an appointment with Nick

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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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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. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:02:00 – Competitive advantages are no longer sustainable, and innovation is needed to replace these constantly.

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 9, 2024

That in turn, raises some very important questions: What is the context we are creating for this competition and how will the rules affect our own fate? In her new book, "Data, Strategy, Culture & Power," data expert Nicole Radziwill, PhD introduces “Radziwill’s Law,” which states: “Data cannot be decoupled from power.

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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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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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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. Moving from “Best Practice” to “Next Practice”.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 25, 2023

In today's rapidly evolving market, it is essential for businesses to understand the principles of disruptive innovation to stay competitive. The concept of disruptive innovation was coined by Clayton Christensen in his groundbreaking book, The Innovator's Dilemma.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 9, 2023

In today's fast-paced business landscape, companies face constant pressure to stay ahead of the competition and maintain their market share. Coined by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen in his book of the same name, the Innovator's Dilemma refers to the challenge [.]

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

In fact we can look back 20 to 30 years ago at some key events and agreements that at the time seemed relatively benign, but in fact have accelerated competition and 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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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Six years ago, when Amazon sold primarily print books, company research showed that customers liked e-books—a new product that threatened Amazon’s core business. They did just that, and by 2011, e-books sales surpassed sales of print books. In fact, by April 2011, Amazon became the world’s largest e-book retailer.

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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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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 10, 2023

How can you differenitate your business from the competition? Airbnb’s “Experiences” Feature : Airbnb expanded beyond accommodation by offering “Experiences” where users can book unique activities hosted by locals. Let’s look at some examples of lateral thinking in business strategy and innovation.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

And, if you don’t have customers, the reason really isn’t your competition, it’s you not providing them with enough value. And as long-time readers know, that’s the last thing you need since the pace of innovation is probably the single most important source of competitive advantage any organization may have. High talent density.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Innovation must be rooted in improving competitive advantage, customer needs, employee expectations and now, sustainability. Tiffani Bova is the global growth evangelist at Salesforce and the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book GROWTH IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business. Tiffani Bova.

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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. On Competition by Michael E. The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier.

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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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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.

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Destination Innovation

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

through social media, competitions or open innovation) monitor the numbers coming in. If you have a suggestions scheme you can scrutinize how many submissions you get each month. If you are canvassing ideas from outside your organization (e.g.

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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? Do we need a new strategy and business model? Change the economics.

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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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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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Idea to Value

JUNE 1, 2017

Putting collaboration before competition, and autonomous motivation before rewards. books, articles, documentaries, etc.) listen to an audio book rather than complain in a traffic jam). Reaching beyond a narrow topic through experimentation, books, arts, and the outdoors. Why did you do this? Mine resources (e.g.,

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Drawing insights from his book Why Data Science Projects Fail , Evan explores the biggest blockers to AI success, the importance of strategic alignment, and how companies can avoid wasting millions on AI initiatives that dont deliver business impact.

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