Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 3, 2019

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley’s Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2018 was our seventh full year of operations.

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Wazoku

APRIL 27, 2020

Furthermore, the partnership gives Wazoku an additional springboard in the US market, and delivers a true one-stop shop for innovation to the marketplace. When thinking about leadership, Simon likes to develop talent from within and gives a lot of autonomy to his teams. That’s why Simon Hill would be a worthy ‘Tech Leader of the Year’.

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Adam Hartung

JUNE 30, 2015

The stock was $66 in June, 2011, and $55 in 6/12 when it made #6. Employees have consistently expressed their dismay with CEO Ed Lampert, and 80% actively dislike his leadership. What are employees saying about the sustainability of the “dollar store” segment in a very tough retail market with growing internet competitors?

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 2, 2018

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley's Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2017 was our sixth full year of operations. Click the link if you missed.

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Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Openness is where market innovation truly takes place. Successful organizations use external resources in an open co-creation process to achieve a larger accessible market through building value nets and growing the total market. Penker (2008-2011). Be Open – share ideas with competitors.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, Zoom Video Communications (Zoom) had a market capitalization of $116B. Zoom was the result of the inability of Cisco Systems (market cap $189B), to recognize a huge, new opportunity. Does executive leadership see things differently than individual contributors?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 7, 2017

You do need to find out more of the emerging Work to be done approach as it is a far more dynamic place for innovation to happen.The W ork-to-be-done is focused on connecting to the emerging areas of Organizational need being faced in today’s rapidly changing markets and diminishing resources. Its areas of focus: [link].

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 5, 2017

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley’s Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2016 was our fifth full year of operations.

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Innovation 360 Group

JANUARY 25, 2011

Today Hey Group release their Global Top 20 companies for leadership, top five at the list was: General Electric. 90% of the Best Companies collect best practices for leadership development from subsidiaries and share them across the organization. Their Top 5 on the Fortune list 2011 is: SAS. Wegmans Food Markets.

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Adam Hartung

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Leadership touted a higher same store sales number, but that is completely misleading. McDonald’s leadership has undertaken a back to basics program. As customer counts are declining, leadership is trying to pull more money out of its declining “core.” McDonald’s profits rose 23%. declined 6%.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

According to Global Human Capital Trends 2015 pg 36, “Organizations that create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong leadership are outperforming their peers and will likely beat their competition in attracting top talent.”.

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Innovation 360 Group

APRIL 1, 2016

Aligning strategy, leadership style, culture, capabilities and competences is the key to success in building an innovative and sustainable business in today’s ever changing market context. Based on Penker (2011). . It is typically based on sales innovation (see below) and market innovation.

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Innovation 360

APRIL 1, 2016

Aligning strategy, leadership style, culture, capabilities and competences is the key to success in building an innovative and sustainable business in today’s ever changing market context. Based on Penker (2011). . It is typically based on sales innovation (see below) and market innovation.

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

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. Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H. Leadership Insights 1.

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

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. Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H. Leadership Insights.

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Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 57

IdeaSpies

AUGUST 31, 2018

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. Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H. Leadership Insights 1.

Software Review 57

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 57

Qmarkets

JULY 5, 2017

Swiss Post is a diversified group with five main subsidiaries – PostMail, PostLogistics, Swiss Post Solutions, PostFinance and PostBus – operating in communications and logistics, retail financial services, and the passenger transport market. Qmarkets: What were the main reasons for Swiss Post to embark on an innovation initiative?

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Swiss Post is a diversified group with five main subsidiaries – PostMail, PostLogistics, Swiss Post Solutions, PostFinance and PostBus – operating in communications and logistics, retail financial services, and the passenger transport market. Qmarkets: What were the main reasons for Swiss Post to embark on an innovation initiative?

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The BMI Lab Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Massive investments, a huge market and the hiring of worldwide talent has boosted the Chinese innovative ecosystem. For instance, in Q3 2017, Tencent, the Chinese Internet company that developed WeChat and QQ, overran Facebook in terms of market value. China is no longer just the home of copycats. But how was this possible?

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Adam Hartung

JULY 8, 2015

Because between 2011 and 2013 Nokia had already lost half its market share. Why would any developer build an app for a Windows phone, when almost the entire market was iOS or Android? And there was no doubt that Windows 8 had missed the mobile market. Less than 5% market share. Nokia had less than 5% share.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

An innovation process “connects upstream idea valuation to downstream production and release to market.” For instance, an emerging business is likely to be focusing on one main product, unlike a mature organization that is looking to fortify its position in the market or find new, disruptive innovations. Increases market success.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

An innovation process “connects upstream idea valuation to downstream production and release to market.” For instance, an emerging business is likely to be focusing on one main product, unlike a mature organization that is looking to fortify its position in the market or find new, disruptive innovations. Increases market success.

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Adam Hartung

JULY 25, 2015

Since 2011, its revenues have grown unevenly, and on average less than 4%/year. And worse, the market is shifting away from WalMart’s huge, plentiful stores toward on-line shopping. That growth has not been due to market growth, it has been created by stealing sales from traditional retailers. Walmart directly employes ~.5%

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Adam Hartung

JANUARY 17, 2016

Yet, there is really no change in the fundamental market situation facing Amazon. Amazon scored an amazing 35% market share in e-commerce, wildly outperforming number 2 Best Buy (8%) and ten-fold numbers 3 and 4 Macy’s and WalMart that accomplished just over 3% market share each. Perhaps accelerating. 2) Buy Facebook.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 16, 2021

At the time we were looking to raise capital (between 2011 and 2013), businesses with women on the executive team received only 7 percent of the venture funding. I educated myself on SaaS metrics and benchmarks, customer support models, sales techniques, marketing, and even pitching to investors. This will make or break you.

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Technology Created

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Why would it be important to dig into events such as the introduction of the Model A by Henry Ford in 1927 or the failure of IBM to react to Microsoft’s entry into the PC market in the early 1980’s? Why would they simply not be able to more effectively and easily move to a new market and opportunity as they occur? 2] “Timeline.”

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Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Methods are needed that focus on the customer experience, allow us to adapt to new information, and help us make decisions based on market-based evidence. When designing something, (ie: a technology, a product, a marketing material…) it is paramount to keep the needs of the end user in mind.

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Econic

JUNE 10, 2019

Then the economy started to recover around 2011. What happened in 2011 that held at JCPenney back while others started to recover? In 2011, the CEO of JCPenney stepped down and Ron Johnson – one of the people most responsible for the Apple Store – took over to revitalize the company. Why is this? What did Ron Johnson do?

Marketing 40

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

McKinsey in 2011 identified that 72% of transformation programs fail to deliver on their targets so there is an awful lot of thinking, planning and working through any transformation to make sure you end up with the 28% of the success stories. Let me finish on one example already successfully working in today’s market. Is it possible?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

McKinsey in 2011 identified that 72% of transformation programs fail to deliver on their targets so there is an awful lot of thinking, planning and working through any transformation to make sure you end up with the 28% of the success stories. Let me finish on one example already successfully working in today’s market. Is it possible?

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Adam Hartung

APRIL 21, 2016

Think about Blackberry, that gave us the smartphone business then lost it to Apple and its creation of the app market. These were some really big companies that saw their market shifts, but failed to “pivot” their strategy to remain competitive. It is becoming a market leader in original programming.

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Adam Hartung

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

But if we take an historical look, despite how well WalMart’s value has done between 2011 and 2014, there are ample reasons to forecast a very difficult future. WalMart had never been able to convert its success formula into a growing business in any international market, but Mexico was supposedly its breakout. WalMart is huge.

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