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The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking In the competitive landscape of modern business, the approach we take to leadership can make or break an organization. Result: Kodak’s failure to innovate and adapt to digital technology ultimately led to bankruptcy in 2012.

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

Idea to Value

This can require significant marketing and sales effort to change. And competition has its advantages. It takes a while for new ideas to spread through a society, and the majority of people don’t perceive any value in the new offering at the beginning. Customers are happy with their current solution.

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Keeping Up is a Fool’s Game

Daniel Burrus

Keeping up—with technology, with the competition, with anything in business or life—is what some would call a fool’s game. Asking these questions enables you to go beyond your competition and get off the treadmill of keeping up. Ask yourself: Is your industry faced with cyclical changes, such as seasonal, economic, or sales cycles?

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What Gap Inc. Can Learn From Signet Jewelers CEO Gina Drosos

Michael Roberto

Three of the company's four major brands (Old Navy, Gap, and Banana Republic) have blurred competitive positions. Of course, to make all this happen, Drosos had to change a toxic culture and address the fallout from a sexual harassment scandal involving a prior CEO. They cannibalize each other's sales far too often.

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Pivotal Innovation Management: The Past, Present, and Future of 180° Business Changes

Qmarkets

Tapping into companies’ collective reservoir of relevant experiences, here’s a brief historical and current panorama of just how business leaders have strived to keep up with the changing times and landscapes – some successfully and some not – and how success can be achieved and failure minimized in our own extremely faced-paced era.

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What is a creative “Flow State”? And how can I achieve it?

Idea to Value

Friendly competition can help give you something to measure yourself against.”. A 2012 research paper by Ullén et al., Was the shot good? The color on the canvas right? Additional scientific research on getting into flow states. Distraction is a major issue preventing people from doing their best creative work.

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Innovate or Die: Open Innovation and 4 Key Measures to Stay Alive

Innovation Walk

Everything is changing, how we interact, the way we do business and even the way we spend our free time. This constant and rapid state of change is creating new and big challenges… but even bigger opportunities. Moreover, experts explain that technological advancements are driving to “ furious rates of change”. in 2004 to 8.3%