Innovation Excellence

APRIL 15, 2024

GUEST POST from Greg Satell 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 […]

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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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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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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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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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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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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2018

Expanding into new markets can be a lucrative business move, but it’s one that should be taken with care. Before you so much as dip a toe into a new market, you need some idea management. What’s Your Market? And remember to apply this to any market, even on the ones you’re already in.

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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. Perhaps the subtitle will give you a sense of what she is thinking: How the Tech Titans and their thinking machines could warp humanity.

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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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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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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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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 10, 2023

How can you differenitate your business from the competition? Dyson disrupted the vacuum cleaner market by creating bagless vacuum cleaners, a concept that challenged the traditional vacuum design and improved performance. Let’s look at some examples of lateral thinking in business strategy and innovation.

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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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Christensen Institute

APRIL 5, 2022

This was one of the first books that I read that made me really interested in the work at the Christensen Institute, and I continue to refer to its insights as I continue my work with some of today’s most impactful innovators. This book may just be the guide for those companies in growth markets. Tolaram now sells more than 4.5

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There are great many companies and leaders that obsess about their market share, competitors, or technological prowess. If you don’t have customers, your market share is zero. And, if you don’t have customers, the reason really isn’t your competition, it’s you not providing them with enough value. High talent density.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

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. Put simply, it theorises that small companies can disrupt the market of large companies by releasing a new version of an offering which appeals more to a subset of the customers.

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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. Outside the box?

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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. No one can maintain the past, much of our systems are rooted in the 20 th century, in markets that were predictable and where supply and demand were simply managed to seek out the status quo.

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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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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. The ramping up begins. DT got heavily promoted.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

To do it for real requires ideation, of course, but then incubation (going from an idea to something you could get customer feedback from) to acceleration (bringing the new thing to market). Innovation must be rooted in improving competitive advantage, customer needs, employee expectations and now, sustainability. Twitter: rgmcgrath.

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Idea to Value

MAY 27, 2019

Start-ups – companies under 5 years old owned by one person or a small team of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists – will innovate quite differently from established companies, which have a history of successful growth and a market share to defend. Here are some of the differences between newly beginning and existing companies.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Why your company needs to think about crowdsourcing with the competition…. Understandably, the increase in competition and market saturation is seen by those who experience it as a direct threat to their organizational legitimacy. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” Sleeping With the Enemy.

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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. What factor changed the healthcare market suddenly and drastically? The Timing Trap There is a timing trap, however, much like timing the market.

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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. Distinctive: What makes you stand out in a crowded market? What keeps customers coming back?

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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

Reading the article closely If you read the linked article closely you'll see that Coke, traditionally a bastion of marketing and financial management, is now looking for people with different skill sets. She's looking for people comfortable with creating and promoting change, who can help disrupt existing products and markets.

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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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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. Genres: Leadership, Business, Management, Nonfiction, Self Help.

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Rmukesh Gupta

AUGUST 20, 2019

Overview: — I got this book as an advance review copy. Rita McGrath has produced another stunning book, in a way even better than her earlier book “The End of Competitive advantage”. You can pre-order the book here. Ease of reading: — The book is not only easy to read.

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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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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

method could work for your team, click here to book a free strategy video call , or if you prefer email click here to contact him directly. Time, people, money, testing machinery, marketing budget, you name it, anything is possible. method) about how the L.I.V.E. ———-. ———-.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 7, 2018

They see a market is in that specific need of the Amazon treatment, then they are on it. Structure a viable market for investment opportunities where competitive returns can be demonstrated that yield attractive returns and reverse current cost acceleration. Let’s take the emerging Health Care changes going on in the U.S.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Speed and awareness are critical for us to react and respond, to take full advantage of “breaking” market opportunities. We begin to see some of the traps Clayton Christensen wrote about in his “Innovators Dilemma” and follow-up books. That applies to our assets and our design and innovating capabilities.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 23, 2016

Not so much because they cannot innovate, but because they failed to notice the shifting markets and demands. And while that platform dominated the industry, they could stay one step ahead of the competition. Time and the history books will tell us.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 15, 2018

This article demonstrates how the Jet.com acquisition has given Walmart access to a whole new, upmarket clientele – including the $600bn annual millennial consumer market – and also strengthened their e-commerce operation. Much of their investment has gone into digitization to keep pace – improved online booking, etc.

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