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Can creativity training really improve your creativity?

Idea to Value

A 2015 study of 180 participants over 9 weeks showed that creativity training not only significantly improved the participant’s view of their own creativity, it resulted in those participants producing more creative output A 2016 study showed one 1.5

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Planning fallacy: Why we are so bad at predicting how long something will take

Idea to Value

In fact, analysis of projects planned to cost over $1 billion showed that around 90% of them also go over budget. It ended up taking more than 10 years longer, and costing over $102 million , around 1,357% over budget. Unfortunately, this is a common occurrence.

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65% of Venture Capital-backed deals fail to return investment, and only 4% make substantial returns

Idea to Value

The chart above shows the financial outcomes for 21,640 different financing deals between 2004 and 2013 (note that these were the total number of deals, not individual companies). However, new data from Correlation Ventures shows just how risky investing in new companies can be. Only 10% of investments made a return of more than 5x.

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The 5 Ways Chairman Lampert Destroyed Sears’ Value

Adam Hartung

The brand is now so tarnished that Sears Holdings is writing down the value of the Sears name by another $200million – reducing intangible value from the $4B at origination in 2004 to under $2B. Through case analysis the good professor taught us that leadership could make decisions that increased company valuation.

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On the Origin of Companies

David Marks

If our traditional retailer made this analysis back in, say, 2004, when web retailing was still in its infancy, it should have recognized that it’s disruptibilty score, was, well, disrupted. Option 1, based on this analysis only delays the inevitable. (levers for Customer responsiveness are also provided in the illustration).

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On the Origin of Companies

David Marks

If our traditional retailer made this analysis back in, say, 2004, when web retailing was still in its infancy, it should have recognized that it’s disruptibilty score, was, well, disrupted. Option 1, based on this analysis only delays the inevitable. (levers for Customer responsiveness are also provided in the illustration).

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Why Business Strategy Shouldn’t Be “Scientific”

Innovation Excellence

In 2004, I was leading a major news organization during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. That can’t help but to color their analysis. Yet even today, nearly a half century later, many executives and business strategists have failed to learn that simple lesson by attempting to inject “science” into strategy.