Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Try these connected strategies. 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. It’s not just about technology, products and services. Customer “journey maps” have been around a long time.

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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. Now, lets delve into why they fail.

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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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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 30, 2020

Try these connected strategies. What’s the secret to a winning business model and long-term competitive advantage? Your customer experience may just be the ultimate competitive advantage. It’s not just about technology, products and services.

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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. 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. Different mobilization potencies.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 6, 2017

Environmental, social and governance strategy (ESG) refers to the three central factors in measuring the sustainability and ethical impact of an investment in a company or business. In exchange, I will send a copy of Thomas Friedman’s new book , “ Thank You for Being Late ” to the first five people who respond. trillion in U.S.

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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

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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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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Michael Roberto

MARCH 13, 2025

Source: Wikipedia This week, Southwest Airlines announced a major strategy shift. The stock market reacted positively to the news of the strategy changes at Southwest. Abandoning many of the classic elements of Southwest's strategy means that the firm has lost of much of its distinctiveness.

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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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CMOE

MARCH 6, 2023

An organization’s success depends on a business strategy that establishes the organization’s mission and what decisions or actions must be taken to achieve it. Every individual in the organization, from front-line worker to Chief Executive Officer, is responsible for implementing the strategy and ensuring the organization’s success.

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Matthew May

APRIL 24, 2015

And what appears to be strategy, isn’t. The third is the real surprise, showing up with alarming frequency in my strategy facilitation engagements. What so many people refer to as their strategy is in reality something else entirely. “Strategy doesn’t work in a fast-changing world.”

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business environment, crafting and leading an effective executive team offsite has emerged as a pivotal strategy for fostering alignment, stimulating innovation, and bolstering organizational resilience. Selecting the Right Venue The venue for your offsite plays a significant role in contributing to its success.

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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

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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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Regardless of the industry your business falls in, innovation can keep your team ahead of the trends and competitors and foster stability and consistency within your strategy. So, to get started, here are five misconceptions many companies have about innovation that you need to consider when building your strategy.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 15, 2017

An anticipatory strategy that addresses culture clash is the importance of enhanced collaboration—the value of promoting an environment where organizations, people and resources voluntarily come together to boost the common good. Order Daniel Burrus’ The Anticipatory Organziation Book on Amazon.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Regardless of the industry your business falls in, innovation can keep your team ahead of the trends and competitors and foster stability and consistency within your strategy. So, to get started, here are five misconceptions many companies have about innovation that you need to consider when building your strategy.

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Daniel Burrus

JULY 6, 2017

But, like other issues that the future can hold, there are strategies to anticipate the challenges that complacency can create and to address them as proactively and effectively as possible. Pre Order Daniel Burrus’ Anticipatory Organziation Book on Amazon. Complacency can pose all sorts of significant problems.

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CMOE

AUGUST 8, 2019

Military strategy is thousands of years old but the field of business strategy has only been around for about fifty years. Because this field is so new, there’s still a lot of disagreement about how business strategy and business models should be defined—and often among those who write about these topics the most!

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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. These answers can help us develop the right strategies to make learning an efficient part of our everyday lives. Find it on Amazon. Learning How to Learn. Find it on Amazon.

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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

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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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 9, 2017

When the competition launches a new product, how do you react? In short, you use agility to change directions and head the competition off at the pass. Agility doesn’t allow you to innovate and jump ahead of the competition. Moreover, agility doesn’t allow you to innovate and jump ahead of the competition.

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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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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Then, have a process for aligning strategy (which pulls you forward) with budgeting (which anchors you backward) with project governance (which is usually a total mess) with people’s incentives. She is consistently ranked among the Top 10 management thinkers in the world and was ranked #1 for strategy by Thinkers50. Twitter: rgmcgrath.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 9, 2018

She also says that Coke has a new strategy and purpose, innovating both around food and drinks as well as issues like packaging. She needs people who can understand the new strategy and help implement it. She's looking for people comfortable with creating and promoting change, who can help disrupt existing products and markets.

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CMOE

MAY 19, 2022

You can’t have strategy without leadership. Strategy formulation requires a clearly defined vision, long-term goals, useful tools, and a plan to win. But without the guidance of an insightful leader who can drive the process, it is difficult to make any strategy a reality. Ensures alignment with overall strategies.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 22, 2025

From Coaching Rowers to CoachingTeams Blairs background in competitive rowingand later as a high-performance coachhas profoundly shaped his leadership style. During the episode, Blair shared practical strategies to maintain cohesion in virtual environments, from hosting regular one-on-ones to organizing creative team activities.

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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. What Innovators Alliance Members are Reading: Dancing with Robots: The 29 Strategies for Success in the Age of AI and Automation by Bill Bishop.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It can give you a real competitive advantage by translating what you learnt in applying analogies to solutions that solve your customer problems. Enjoy the ride! Their 101 Cross Industry Super-Sites is superb to delve into and be inspired and amazed at all the approaches of cross-industry approaches moving from one industry to another.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

At its core, the framework is a collection of strategies and tools for finding inventive solutions to difficult problems. But I would also recommend the following books: 8 – Effective Brainstorming. What it is: One of the most important theories of innovation, but one which is usually completely misunderstood.

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mjvinnovation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined the term in his book The Great Good Place (1989). Starbucks has now incorporated this philosophy into its retail design and business strategy. In the early 1990s, Starbucks relied heavily on Oldenburg’s third-place philosophy for its customer experience strategy.

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Planview

APRIL 6, 2023

Fresh off the pain of my poor Boilermakers loss in the NCAA tournament, I reflect on what a startling competitive disadvantage you’re at if your competitor can score buckets at three times your team’s speed. Speed of software delivery is either a competitive advantage or a startling disadvantage in the digital age.

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