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

Idea to Value

For example, Scott Anthony (interviewed on the podcast here ), summarised his views in a 2012 HBR article about which companies might benefit from moving first: If you are what Professor Steven Spear calls a “high-velocity organization” that is always learning and improving, there are real benefits to moving first.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? But how much time would it have taken?

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

Michael Roberto

Source: CNBC For years, Gap has struggled with a muddled corporate strategy. I think Gap could learn a great deal from the turnaround led by CEO Gina Drosos at Signet Jewelers. Drosos, says that as a board member from 2012, she had always pushed for Signet to diversify its workforce and culture.

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How President Lula da Silva should help the poor in Brazil this time?

Christensen Institute

Early signs point to Lula’s government implementing a push strategy of development when they need to do the opposite. In our paper, Leveraging market-creating innovations to solve Brazil’s education paradox , we highlight two main development strategies, push and pull. Pull, don’t push. appeared first on Christensen Institute.

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Learning to be Innovative – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact

Imaginatik

They thought they needed a new growth strategy. Thus, for insurance and transportation firms, Uber’s early successes in 2011 – 2012 could have yielded important insights about the future of transportation, urban living, and the sharing economy. Nearly all of their brands were struggling with stagnant or declining market share.

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Agile Strategy – 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Disruptive Innovation

BrainZooming

Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts. 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Agile Strategy and Disruptive Innovation. Developing an Agile Strategy.

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Go to Market Strategy – 10 Sections Your Strategy Plan Should Include

BrainZooming

Our buddies at Armada Corporate Intelligence addressed what sections you should include in your go to market strategy plan in their “Inside the Executive Suite” feature. They highlighted ten different sections to include your strategy plan. 10 Sections Your Go to Market Strategy Plan Should Include via Armada Corporate Intelligence.