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

Idea to Value

They found that of the companies which really were the first to launch in a new category, a full 47% (nearly half), failed to build a successful business. 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.

Strategy 257
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Don’t Lose Your Best People. Use the 9-Box Grid to Grow Your Future Talent.

Leapfrogging

Keep and develop your best people to create a high-performance culture and competitive advantage. Hiring good people is tough. In today’s disruptive world, competitive advantage relies as much on people as it does technology. The 9-box talent grid categorizes your people into nine categories.

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Abortion: The imperative to reflect reality, not a false dichotomy

Christensen Institute

But when it comes to abortion, rethinking the categories we use to discuss this particular crisis sheds light on how we can move forward. In this case, polarization is the result of the wrong categories. Currently, we only have one word, or one category, to describe multiple different services. We label this category “abortion.”

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Business Process Improvement Examples: 34 Actionable Ideas

Kainexus

Usually, there are some apparent needs that people attack immediately. A practical approach for overcoming this issue is providing employees with categories of improvement potential to keep in mind. This post breaks down common improvement needs into several categories and then covers several practical tools for problem-solving.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Encourage Your Team to Escalate Issues on Technical Projects

Harvard Business Review

The root causes of why people fail to escalate issues (even when they know it’s the right thing to do) fall into both organizational and systemic categories. Among them are the lack of a culture of trust, poor communications, ineffective feedback, and valuing IQ over EQ.

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Innovation Teams in a Virtual World

Leapfrogging

Better yet, it’s become clear that certain parts of the process are even better when done virtually, a counter-intuitive finding for many people who believe nothing can replace face-to-face collaboration. Define opportunity categories. Identify categories for your ideas before you start. Create prioritization criteria.