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What Gap Inc. Can Learn From Signet Jewelers CEO Gina Drosos

Michael Roberto

Three of the company's four major brands (Old Navy, Gap, and Banana Republic) have blurred competitive positions. I think Gap could learn a great deal from the turnaround led by CEO Gina Drosos at Signet Jewelers. Drosos, says that as a board member from 2012, she had always pushed for Signet to diversify its workforce and culture.

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

Idea to Value

This can require significant marketing and sales effort to change. And competition has its advantages. It takes a while for new ideas to spread through a society, and the majority of people don’t perceive any value in the new offering at the beginning. Customers are happy with their current solution.

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Keeping Up is a Fool’s Game

Daniel Burrus

Keeping up—with technology, with the competition, with anything in business or life—is what some would call a fool’s game. Asking these questions enables you to go beyond your competition and get off the treadmill of keeping up. Ask yourself: Is your industry faced with cyclical changes, such as seasonal, economic, or sales cycles?

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Pivotal Innovation Management: The Past, Present, and Future of 180° Business Changes

Qmarkets

Tapping into companies’ collective reservoir of relevant experiences, here’s a brief historical and current panorama of just how business leaders have strived to keep up with the changing times and landscapes – some successfully and some not – and how success can be achieved and failure minimized in our own extremely faced-paced era.

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A $2.4 Billion Lesson All Innovators Should Heed

Stephen Shapiro

billion in investment, the Revel Casino opened its doors to the Atlantic City Boardwalk on April 2, 2012. Combine their design decisions with a tanked New Jersey economy, increased competition from Pennsylvania casinos, and bad investment decisions (such as building their own power plant), and you have a recipe for disaster.

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Innovation System Thinking on a Sunday! What, no roast or glass of wine? Later.

Paul Hobcraft

That part of the day spent on innovation, researching and reading, tends to partly stimulate my week ahead in different ways as I try to reinforce what I’ve learned by applying this to the work gathered around me at that point of time, it does help shape and influence it, it ‘fuels’ the coming in week in some part.

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