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Balancing your innovation portfolio: Does the 70-20-10 rule still apply?

Idea to Value

One of industry standard answers comes from research by Deloitte Partners Bansi Nagji and Geoff Tuff, in their groundbreaking 2012 article in Harvard Business Review: Managing your innovation portfolio. It will be different for your company compared to your competition, and compared to other industries or companies with other strategies.

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Collaborative Contracts and Competitive Bidding: Not Mutually Exclusive!

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Can collaboration and competition co-exist to create the best contract bidding relationships? In 2012, University of Tennessee researchers began studying how organizations use competitive bidding methods. The short answer is yes. Their findings?

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We need to delay the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

Idea to Value

I worked for more than 2 years on the London 2012 Olympics directly with the athletes, and have seen first hand what the Games are like, in the stadium and in the athletes village. Athletes’ ability to perform: Every athlete attending the games will have been focusing on the day of competition for a long time. What do you think?

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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.

Strategy 257
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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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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Focus stage: Seed Published: 2012 more…. Design Competitions. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2012 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2012 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2012 more…. Focus stage: Seed Published: 2012 more…. Focus stage: Growth Published: 2012 more…. Deep Dive (Ideo).

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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. There’s just one problem. Think about it: When you’re merely keeping up, what’s the advantage?