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Agility is the 2023 Success Factor

Leapfrogging

The concept of “agility” in business originated from the field of agile software development. Any team can apply the principles of agile software development to create greater overall agility. Agility may ultimately be your only source of sustainable competitive advantage. Get a free sample chapter here.

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The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases

Tullio Siragusa

Whether you’re leading a team of software developers or healthcare professionals, understanding human emotions and motivations remains consistent. Leaders with high EI recognize and manage emotions — theirs and others. Such skills lead to genuine relationships, efficient conflict management, and a positive work environment.

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Business Model Scalability: Internal vs External

The BMI Lab Blog

4 Strategies to Improve Your Internal Scalability Leverage External Resources The most scalable models to date are digital platforms that leverage external resources e.g. cars and drivers (Uber), engineers and product designers (Local Motors), or software developers and phone manufacturers (Android).

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What Is Business Intelligence?

Collective Innovation

There is usually a wealth of trade magazines and if you work with dealers or distributors they are a fantastic resource for giving insight into what is doing well. Your competitors may move to go after an existing market or may tap into a new enhancement, extension or application innovation that is lucrative enough for you to join in.

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The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

Harvard Business Review

And many platforms today, such as 50-year-old MasterCard, were started back when a browser was someone thumbing through magazines at the local newsstand. Some of the victims were stodgy print newspapers and magazines that were still operating much like they did a century before. They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media.

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When Work Satisfaction Comes from Having 4 Jobs

Harvard Business Review

Lola is a labor and delivery nurse, an administrator and partner in a 65-bed long-term-care facility, president and consultant in a software technology company, director of operations in a long-term-care consulting company, chair of several hospital committees, and volunteer for a women’s fertility organization that travels to Africa.

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A Brief History of the Ways Companies Compete

Harvard Business Review

For example, newspapers and magazines have always heavily subsidized their “users” (readers) in order to provide more benefits to their “customers” (advertisers). All the above begs a question: Will we see any new ways of competing become a sixth movement in the corporate world?

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