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First-Mover or Fast-Follower: Which is the right innovation strategy for you?

Idea to Value

In comparison, of the companies which were fast followers in those categories (and which entered on average 13 years after the pioneers), only 8% failed. And competition has its advantages. After all, when someone copies what you have in the market, they are copying the artifact of your past effort.

Strategy 266
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Toxic Competition in the Workplace

CMOE

Toxic Competition in the Workplace: Recognition, Prevention, and Fostering Healthier Outlooks Competition is often a helpful catalyst for innovation and productivity in the business world. However, when competition crosses the line from healthy motivation to toxic action, it can harm workplace culture and team well-being.

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Creating the Industrial Ecosystem

Paul Hobcraft

Siemens is in some highly competitive industrial markets. Partly they, Siemens, have lived with Mindsphere for some time and it has become embedded in where they are going, perhaps forgetting the significant lag the outside world has to this, to relate or appreciate or make those essential comparisons.

Industry 187
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Some students succeed at the expense of others. It doesn’t have to be that way.

Christensen Institute

This learning model is an outgrowth of a dangerous zero-sum mindset. Under today’s system, time is held as a constant and each student’s learning is variable. Yet the class continues to progress, and students develop holes in their learning. This fixed-time, variable-learning system fails students. Click To Tweet.

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Turning Your Business Setbacks Into Setups for Success

Business and Tech

Now more than ever, it’s easier to get distracted by what the competition is doing because it’s all visible online. It’s easy to get distracted by what appears to be successful for everyone else on social media , and to risk getting sucked into the comparison trap. .

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You can't burn data

Jeffrey Phillips

As the concept of digital transformation takes root, you may frequently hear comparisons between data and oil. This comparison was strong enough to lead Wired magazine to define data as the new oil in a magazine article some years ago. On the surface, this comparison seems to make some sense.

Data 120
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The Art of Decision-making as an Innovation Leader

Idea to Value

These are without a doubt all very important topics, but they still pale in comparison to decision-making. It’s just something that successful innovators have learned to live with and cope with. This is the fundamental cornerstone that leads to our next key points: testing, learning, and speed.