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Agile Strategy – 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Disruptive Innovation

BrainZooming

Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Agile Strategy and Disruptive Innovation. How can you develop a super-agile process that disrupts other industry players’ competitive advantages? via Shutterstock. Developing an Agile Strategy.

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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?

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Disrupting Markets – Why PayPal Is Worth More Than Ebay

Adam Hartung

eBay has run into stiff competition, as CraigsList has grown to take over the “garage sale” and small local business ecommerce. Because once in a growth stall the company has already missed the market shift, and competition is taking customers quickly in new directions. So eBay bought fledgling PayPal for $1.5B

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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

Every company needs to simultaneously optimize their existing business model (sustain) and search for the next evolution of the business model (disrupt). And companies that continuously outlearn their competition win. March 9, 2012 - Running Lean Meta-Process - Lean Canvas Continuous Innovation Framework 2.0?—?June

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7 Things Every CEO Should Know About Their Patents

Anaqua

Those that are creative in utilizing existing data, combining internal and external data analytics, and innovate in ways to improve aligning R&D and IP with business objectives, will find opportunities for competitive advantage. End of 2012 $7,473. Motorola Balance Sheet, intangible assets (in millions): End of 2012 $109.

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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

Every company needs to simultaneously optimize their existing business model (sustain) and search for the next evolution of the business model (disrupt). And companies that continuously outlearn their competition win. March 9, 2012 - Running Lean Meta-Process - Lean Canvas Continuous Innovation Framework 2.0?—?June

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Retaining the innovative spark

Jeffrey Phillips

Competition is accelerating, of course, and so is innovation. Yet once music was digitized, Apple disrupted the music distribution business with iTunes, which seemed poised to dominate the music distribution business for years. In 1920 the average life expectancy of a firm on the S&P 500 was 67 years. Today it is 15 years.