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

mjvinnovation

Starbucks has now incorporated this philosophy into its retail design and business strategy. Oldenburg saw these spaces shrink in the United States during the post-war decades, as residential areas – suburbs – became devoid of public meeting places, and lives became more competitive and private. What is the third place?

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

The BMI Lab Blog

Learnings from sports competitions Competition in business is similar to sports competitions – there are winners and losers. The holistic approach of how a company is implementing a strategy and works its way towards its vision is described by the logic of all dimensions of its business model – the WHO, WHAT, HOW and VALUE.

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The Orange Socks Story I’ve Never Written Before

BrainZooming

Over time, another guy in the department and I got into an informal competition for who could have more orange stuff. When the Fast Company article appeared in January 2002, someone came to my office to ask if I’d seen it. Big strategy statements shaping your organization needn’t be complicated. I said I hadn’t.

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Patent Quality and Utility Essential to Patent Owners

Anaqua

Constrained budgets mean that IP executives need to be more focused on their portfolio strategies, and the statistics imply that filers are being a bit more selective in what to protect. Business alignment will lead to not only more focused patenting strategies, but also more effective plans for pruning, licensing, and competitive actions.

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2018 Patent Analysis: Patent Quality and Utility Essential to Patent Owners

Anaqua

Constrained budgets mean that IP executives need to be more focused on their portfolio strategies, and the statistics imply that filers are being a bit more selective in what to protect. Business alignment will lead to not only more focused patenting strategies, but also more effective plans for pruning, licensing, and competitive actions.

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Digital transformation examples

Board of Innovation

Ingersoll develops operating strategies for its customers that balance the need to keep buildings lighted and cool with the need to meet increasingly rigorous goals for lowering energy consumption , including sometimes reducing usage on short notice to qualify for special utility payments.