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Make These 3 Cultural Shifts To Reignite Change In Your Organization

Digital Tonto

When I first arrived there in 2002, I was struck by the apathy. Today, Apple is so associated with Steve Jobs and the Macintosh that it seems incredible that he was fired from the company, in large part due to tensions that resulted from its development. There were failures along the way that needed to be learned from and overcome.

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Seven Companies That Failed to Innovate and What Happened to Them

IdeaScale

Overview: Companies that fail to innovate can go out of business, yet there are even worse fates that can await them. These seven companies lost out on entering major new markets, got acquired by competitors, or accumulated billions on bad bets, all by failing to innovate or grasp the value of their innovations. The Concorde.

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

mjvinnovation

Environments where people feel comfortable and return to again and again to socialize and enjoy the company of acquaintances and strangers. That is, people learn by observing and practicing hands-on, receiving constant feedback from their customers. Then customers started asking for places to sit and more food options.

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How to spend $200+ Billion for a Train Wreck

Mills-Scofield

It led to a lot of spending with little success: 1999: AT&T pays $44B to buy the cable company TCI, creating AT&T Broadband. 2002: AT&T sells AT&T Broadband to Comcast for $47.5B In my next life I want to come back as a company AT&T buys. . I saw this and worked on this firsthand. It wasn’t pretty.

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Become proactive instead of reactive with Future Designs

mjvinnovation

We might also add to the recipe a few extra flavors in the form of culture, behavior and values. program, published a brilliant model of social change stories in an obscure journal, Perspectives on Cross-Cultural Psychology. He revisited this model in Advancing Futures (2002). I hope we’ve learned the lesson.

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Has COVID-19 led us into a Collapse scenario?

mjvinnovation

We might also add to the recipe a few extra flavours in the form of culture, behaviour and values. program, published a brilliant model of social change stories in an obscure journal, Perspectives on Cross-Cultural Psychology. He revisited this model in Advancing Futures (2002). As well as some more subjective aspects.

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Spotting Innovation Opportunities

ITONICS

Having only one good idea won’t help companies to survive. If a company focuses on incremental innovation and simple stage-gate ideation processes only, it won’t keep up in the long run. When talking about innovation, existing companies should, therefore, be entitled to create those breakthroughs by themselves.