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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? But how much time would it have taken?

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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. In the early 1990s, Starbucks relied heavily on Oldenburg’s third-place philosophy for its customer experience strategy. That is, people learn by observing and practicing hands-on, receiving constant feedback from their customers.

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How to Optimize Email Marketing for the New Normal of COVID-19

Brunner

Instead of the usual COVID-19 statement, let’s take a look at what we’ve learned and where we are now. So, when it comes to an effective email strategy you’ll be able to make practical moves to improve results. Three key influential aspects of an impactful email strategy are send times, engagement, and content.

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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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Become proactive instead of reactive with Future Designs

mjvinnovation

Methodologies may vary, but one of the things almost all of them have in common is that they base their strategies by building different future scenarios, with different uncertainties and variables. He revisited this model in Advancing Futures (2002). Many businesses do not have strategies for collapse scenarios.

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Digital transformation examples

Board of Innovation

Learn how to start small: the art of minimum viable products. Sector: Oil & Energy Company: Eaton Learn more: Source Freemium Remote sensing Anomaly detection GE using 3D-printing to make parts for it’s new Leap Engine. Sector: Machinery Company: Caterpillar Learn more: Source Pay-per-lux leasing program sold to eg.