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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Making strategy behind closed doors is a prescription for failure when disruptions are coming from all directions. Formulating and executing a sound organizational strategy is complex. Strategy is often made by elite teams and can thus be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces.

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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. Over time, another guy in the department and I got into an informal competition for who could have more orange stuff. Current Orange Socks. I said I hadn’t.

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What do you need to innovate?

David Marks

Good leadership provide clarity and focus. Technology leadership forges a competitive advantage. It’s strategy, processes and culture are aligned and optimized for innovation. For example Strategy consists of: Purpose, Insight and Prioritization. Purposefulness breaks further into: Leadership and Clarity.

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What do you need to innovate?

David Marks

Good leadership provide clarity and focus. Technology leadership forges a competitive advantage. It’s strategy, processes and culture are aligned and optimized for innovation. For example Strategy consists of: Purpose, Insight and Prioritization. Purposefulness breaks further into: Leadership and Clarity.

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Innovation – Why Bezos Succeeded, While Lampert Failed at Sears

Adam Hartung

Quick Rundown: In January, 2002 Kmart is headed for bankruptcy. Heck, leadership had discontinued the famous catalogues in 1993 to stop store cannibalization and push people into locations where the company could promote more products and services. There was no way a cost cutting strategy would save KMart or Sears.

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