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COVID-19: Business R&D Spending Will Fall by at Least 5-6%

Commodore Innovation

As individuals we are grappling with the fear, disruption and uncertainty brought about by COVID-19. Innovation teams are not, of course, immune to this disruption. That might be in relatively small ways like sharing and disseminating knowledge about tools and behaviors that enhance virtual / remote collaboration.

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Optimistic CEO, Pessimistic CFO: Optimal Pairing?

Michael Roberto

They studied 2,356 companies between 2002 and 2013. Here's their description of the research : We culled transcripts of conference calls between 2002 and 2013 involving both the CEOs and CFOs, and measured the executives’ optimism and pessimism by analysing their use of positive and negative words. Not necessarily.

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The Orange Socks Story I’ve Never Written Before

BrainZooming

The occasion was presenting our first strategic market plan at Yellow Transportation (whose name was Yellow but whose color was orange) to the senior leadership team. Chuck and I talked afterward by phone, and he asked about the socks and how long I had worn them. Create the Vision to Align and Engage Your Team! I said I hadn’t.

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Third Place and the Starbucks empire: the user experience at the heart of strategy

mjvinnovation

In 2002, in his book Celebrating the Third Place , Oldenburg classified the “popular coffee shop chain” as a facsimile of a third space, citing its “high volume and fast turnover operations that present an institutional environment at an intimate level.”. How about it, are you ready to turn your business into a third place?

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Innovation Networks – Needed Now More Than Ever

The Inovo Group

“This new mode of organization—a ‘network of teams’ with a high degree of empowerment, strong communication, and rapid information flow—is now sweeping businesses and governments around the world.” – Gen. Work is organized by programs and projects and done by purpose-built teams. What should we be concerned about?

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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite

Innov8rs

Strategy is often made by elite teams and can thus be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces. By adopting an open strategy, leadership teams can access diverse external knowledge sources and become aware of their biases, while also building buy-in to accelerate execution.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

Let’s take a look at how the British cycling team went from zero Tour de France victories and ninety-five years without any Olympic medal by 2003 to sixty-six Olympic or Paralympic gold medals and five Tour de France victories between 2007 and 2017 (Clear, 2018). The hard truth about business model innovation. Christensen, C.