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The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking In the competitive landscape of modern business, the approach we take to leadership can make or break an organization. Result: Kodak’s failure to innovate and adapt to digital technology ultimately led to bankruptcy in 2012.

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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. It also explains why prominent firms, which have been known for their innovative products for years, suddenly lose their competitive advantage?

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Best Practices are Stupid

Stephen Shapiro

On April 20, 2010, the environment was dealt a horrific blow. For a company that stood to lose billions of dollars in cleanup costs, relief payouts, and lost sales due to bad publicity, this approach might indeed have been a good strategy. Google reportedly lets its employees use 20 percent of their time to develop new ideas.

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Overcome resistance and capture growth in the Financial Services Industry

Innovation 360 Group

“Companies that master the delicate balance between cutting costs to survive today and investing to grow tomorrow do well after a <downturn>” HBR 2010. It drives innovation to a transactional level and leads organizations to seek the perceived lower risk of acquiring new ideas vs developing them in house.

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Going Lean, Again

etventure

I complimented the team on how calm the assembly line seemed to run – and how clean the workshop looked. The company was losing its technology leadership. Now the Board of Directors was getting nervous – and the CEO felt rising pressure to prove his team is able to deal with digitization. An Expensive Blind Spot.

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IA Summit 10 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

2010 IA Summit theme music generously provided by Bumper Tunes. Richard Dalton and Rob Weening discuss two solutions they’ve developed at Vanguard to address this question. Sometimes it’s poor methods, poor team members, or the market. account: iTunes Del.icio.us Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 (coming soon) |.

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

Apple has refashioned consumer experience with its iconic branding, stylish design and a diverse product range, its own retail stores, and important partnerships with the competition. That is the lesson learned at Lego — just in time,” says David Robertson, Professor of Practice teaching Innovation and Product Development at Wharton.