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Driving Change is Not Enough

Innovation Excellence

You Also Have To Survive Victory GUEST POST from Greg Satell In early 2004, Viacom announced it would spin off Blockbuster Video, leaving CEO John Antioco master of his own fate. He moved quickly to meet the threat posed by Netflix head on, launching Blockbuster Online in 2004 and, after successfully testing the concept in […]

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Ambidextrous Innovation: Exploring the New Whilst Exploiting Success

ITONICS

The 2004 Harvard Business Review article “The Ambidextrous Organization” by Charles A. They, too, must constantly look backward, attending to the products and processes of the past, while also gazing forward, preparing for the innovations that will define the future.” O’Reilly III and Michael L.

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My innovation journey (so far)

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been leading innovation work for close to 20 years, writing about it on this blog and in my book (Relentless Innovation). I've made some great friends along the way and been influenced by a range of great innovation thought leaders. Too much time at the innovation coal face was making me a bit cynical.

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Four Transformation Secrets Business Leaders Can Learn from Social and Political Movements

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 2004, I was managing a major news organization during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. One of the things I noticed was that thousands of people, who would normally be doing thousands of different things, would stop what they were doing and start doing the same things all at once, […]

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How Networks Power Transformation

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In February 2004, Viacom announced that it would spin off Blockbuster Video into its own independent company, which gave its CEO, John Antioco, the opportunity to begin addressing the disruptive threat emanating from Netflix head on.

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Why Today’s Leaders Need to Be Perpetual Learners

Harvard Business Review

Born to immigrant parents in the Australian outback, he would eventually rise to the top of the corporate world, taking over in 2004 as CEO of Dow Chemical. Andrew Liveris likes to defy expectations.

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Five Myths That Kill Change and Transformation

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell I first became interested in transformation in the fall of 2004. I was managing a leading news organization in Kyiv, Ukraine when the Orange Revolution broke out. It was an amazing thing to witness and … Continue reading →

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