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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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Does the Stock Market Inhibit Innovation?

Destination Innovation

His conclusion is that these results suggest that the transition to public equity markets leads firms to reposition their R&D investments toward more conventional and safer projects. They compared 207 consumer goods companies and a sample of over 40,000 new products between 1980 and 2011.

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Overcome the Customer’s Concern – Transfer the Risk

Destination Innovation

Once they gained this insight Hyundai decided on a daring marketing strategy. Hyundai saw its share of the US automobile market rise from 3.0 Source Automotive News May 2011 ). The lesson for marketers is to keep asking ‘why? ‘ Why are they worried? Only 350 customers returned their vehicles. percent to 4.6

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

The BMI Lab Blog

The holistic approach of how a company is implementing a strategy and works its way towards its vision is described by the logic of all dimensions of its business model – the WHO, WHAT, HOW and VALUE. This figure shows how competitive advantage is generated over a market lifecycle.

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You need a red team, not a red pill

Jeffrey Phillips

Red teams and blue teams originate from the military, where one team takes on the role of an attacker or proposes a strategy and another team seeks to disrupt or destroy the strategy. Yet doing a good job evaluating ideas and the markets and conditions they will be launched into is vital.

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Taking on the knowledge barrier: Solar lessons for consumers and producers

Christensen Institute

Though many have heard of solar energy, perhaps even used it, not everyone knows how these systems work, what they consist of, or more specifically, how to be a successful market-creator in the solar industry of growth economies. These are critical strategies for solar energy producers and innovators in growth economies.

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Adaptive Strategy Matrix [Infographic]: exploration vs. exploitation?

Open Innovation EU

I recently ran into an article (Walrave et al 2011) that analyzed a simulation of investing in exploration vs. exploitation. Model of Exploration vs. The article built a simulation and was able to test the effective of different strategies under different circumstances. Without intervention this will work till the end of time.