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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. 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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Disrupting Markets – Why PayPal Is Worth More Than Ebay

Adam Hartung

in 2002 , in order to grease the wheels for faster ecommerce growth. Based on its current market leadership and position as likely game changer for the banking sector, Paypall is selling for about 8 times revenue. But leadership became complacent, and now it is very likely overvalued. So eBay bought fledgling PayPal for $1.5B

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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. If your company cuts innovation spending, but a competitor doesn’t, will you lose your technology leadership position? in 2001 and a further 5.6%

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Regulations Work – Applaud SOX and Dodd- Frank

Adam Hartung

As a result Congress passed the Sarbanes Oxley act in 2002 (SOX,) which greatly increased the duties of Board Directors – as well as penalties if they failed to meet their duties. Some companies went so far as to lie to investors and regulators about their business, until their companies failed from the risks and unlawful activities.

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What do you need to innovate?

David Marks

Good leadership provide clarity and focus. Technology leadership forges a competitive advantage. Purposefulness breaks further into: Leadership and Clarity. When Amazon Web Services (AWS) was introduced back in 2002, Amazon was a fledgling web retailer mainly known for selling books cheaply.

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What do you need to innovate?

David Marks

Good leadership provide clarity and focus. Technology leadership forges a competitive advantage. Purposefulness breaks further into: Leadership and Clarity. When Amazon Web Services (AWS) was introduced back in 2002, Amazon was a fledgling web retailer mainly known for selling books cheaply.