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First-Mover or Fast-Follower: Which is the right innovation strategy for you?

Idea to Value

For example, Scott Anthony (interviewed on the podcast here ), summarised his views in a 2012 HBR article about which companies might benefit from moving first: If you are what Professor Steven Spear calls a “high-velocity organization” that is always learning and improving, there are real benefits to moving first.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

This is the list of sections and book summaries: Alltime Classics How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie – 1936 Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill – 1937 The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale – 1952 The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson – 1981 In Search of Excellence (..)

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Go to Market Strategy – 10 Sections Your Strategy Plan Should Include

BrainZooming

Our buddies at Armada Corporate Intelligence addressed what sections you should include in your go to market strategy plan in their “Inside the Executive Suite” feature. They highlighted ten different sections to include your strategy plan. 10 Sections Your Go to Market Strategy Plan Should Include via Armada Corporate Intelligence.

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Creative Strategy Formula – Snickers and Lead, Copy, Swerve, Integrate, Go

BrainZooming

We haven’t talked about stealing (or copying) ideas as a creative strategy for some time. Translated into a creative strategy formula, it’s an example of “Lead, Copy (1 and 2), Swerve, Integrate, Go.” Here’s how this creative strategy formula plays out between two well-known consumer brands. Brainzooming Has an Answer!

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Microsoft buys LinkedIn – Smart move or Dumb move?

Destination Innovation

It was an attempt to take on Google in online advertising and it failed. In 2012 the value of the business was written down to zero. Yahoo’s online advertising business is worth very little today. In 2008 in another attempt to take on Google Microsoft offered $45B for Yahoo.

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Digital Learning and the Realtime Marketing Lab Tour in a City Close to You!

BrainZooming

I will be presenting that afternoon on “Making Social Strategy Understandable – Even for the C-suite.”. Related posts Join #BZBowl and Tweet on Super Bowl Advertising 2012 Super Bowl Advertising Experience – What Worked and Which Skin Sold Hardest? The Realtime Marketing Lab Tour in a City Close to You.

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Axel Springer & External Innovation. How to turn “Spray and Pray” into “Spray and Succeed”?

CREATORS

a strategy known as “spray and pray” in the venture capital world, which has been adopted by a myriad of companies. Most corporations using the “spray and pray” method have disorganized innovation strategies. The same strategy was used by IBM in the 1950’s, when it was transformed from a tabulating to a computing company.

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