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You need a red team, not a red pill

Jeffrey Phillips

You don't need a pill, you need a team. Red Team / Blue Team The idea of a red team (attacker or hacker) versus the blue team (defender or good guy) has become a staple of cybersecurity, but it has an older history than that. What should happen next, and rarely does, is the creation of a disinterested red team.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

Let’s take a look at how the British cycling team went from zero Tour de France victories and ninety-five years without any Olympic medal by 2003 to sixty-six Olympic or Paralympic gold medals and five Tour de France victories between 2007 and 2017 (Clear, 2018). Let’s transfer these findings into the business world, what are our takeaways?

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The Global StartUp Ecosystem

Paul Hobcraft

The authors JF Gauthier, Marc Penzel and Max Marmer are all founders of Startup Genome and have pulled together an impressive project team to provide this great, insightful report with a whole host of Ecosystem Partners around the globe- thanks from this reader. There is a clear lifecycle to the development of startup ecosystems.

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Best Practices are Stupid

Stephen Shapiro

As you read this and the other chapters, please remember that this book was published back in 2011. 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. Others are designed to change how you innovate.

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Options-based Strategy: An Approach for Uncertain Times

The Inovo Group

How do you create a company that can adapt, respond, and reinvent itself to become stronger in both good times and bad? In 2017, the entire eight-person, executive management team (except for the CFO) of Sweetgreen quit of their own accord after the company had record growth in 2015 and 2016. In 2011, customers were saying “Wow.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. The answer, to me, is how the meaning of innovation has changed.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. The answer, to me, is how the meaning of innovation has changed.