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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills-Scofield

Blue Lobster at the South Bristol Coop , 2004. Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. They think they’re innovative because they make something in green instead of just red, but they stick with their industries, markets, customers, and (usually dying) business models.

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Innovation Management: Importance, Ideas, and Examples

Acuvate

In less than a decade, innovation management got recognized as one of the most powerful strategies an organization can use to streamline internal processes and boost their business productivity. C-level executives might not recognize the precise pain points of specific markets when compared to mid-level managers. Did you know?

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Innovate or Die: Open Innovation and 4 Key Measures to Stay Alive

Innovation Walk

Traditional companies have also started to deal with a new competition since the entry of fast-emerging businesses referred to as “startups“. In fact, the velocity of obsolescence , referred to the rate of speed at which a product or service and/or the competitive advantage of it will lose its value, has dramatically increased.

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Organizational Pathways to Business Model Innovation

Integrative Innovation

Can the venture sizeably leverage existing firm assets and capabilities to gain competitive advantage? A useful taxonomy for addressing this issue has resulted from research by Costas Markides and Costas Charitou (2004). Legitimizing the new business, thus creating an incentive for other companies to also enter this market.

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Top 9 Actionable Employee Engagement Ideas and Activities

Acuvate

In today’s competitive business world employee engagement is an essential element in creating a positive work culture and a productive workforce. This is the reason employee engagement gets top precedence in the workplace strategy. Disengaged employees can cause both financial and competitive drain on the organizations.

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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills-Scofield

Blue Lobster at the South Bristol Coop , 2004. Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. They think they’re innovative because they make something in green instead of just red, but they stick with their industries, markets, customers, and (usually dying) business models.

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On the Origin of Companies

David Marks

Similarly to the natural world, weaker and ill-suited companies will prosper during good times, roaming the markets, making profits and gathering fat. And most importantly by strategy. The Natural monopoly axis measures the degree of which a company is shielded from competition.

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