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

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What makes more sense: To be the first player in a brand new market, able to be the first (or only) company which customers buy from? To wait until other companies have proven there is a market for a new offering, and then quickly develop and scale your own? This can require significant marketing and sales effort to change.

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Agile Strategy – 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Disruptive Innovation

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The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence profiled a Bloomberg Businessweek story on Fanatics , the sports apparel manufacturer and marketer, in its Inside the Executive Suite. Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. Developing an Agile Strategy. via Shutterstock.

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How to create a scalable strategy in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis

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We have already talked about how the world has quickly changed within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and social isolation. Companies had to take extreme measures to adapt their processes and recalibrate their strategies. This guarantees your foothold in the market for much longer. What does it mean to be scalable?

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Strategic Planning in a Dancing Landscape

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So, you do your analysis, you create a strategy to reach your optimum point, and you execute it. All you had to pay attention to was perhaps a few competitors and partnerships, and your market was fairly stable. Meanwhile, there may also be disruptors you cannot see or predict creating new types of competition. Eisenhower.

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The Top 5 Technology Trends That Will Drive Innovation in 2018

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NASA 1960), market pull (e.g. Samsung Galaxy with touchscreen technology in 2012). are going to be replaced by robots sooner than we think. With an increased demand for robots, we will need “smart” employees who are adaptable, curious, and persevering, and thereby drive innovation.

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How Telltales Told You Not to Own Wal-Mart, and Continue To Do So

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Wal-Mart market value took a huge drop on Wednesday. Like most stock market moves, this one just happened really fast. ” This is the disease of constantly focusing on improving your “core” business, while market shifts around you increasingly make that “core” less relevant, and less valuable. .”

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

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Here’s a look at top companies who took customized innovation routes to pull themselves back from the brink of failure: APPLE. It was close to bankruptcy in the late 1990s with rivals BM, Dell and HP eating up the market. The company had a paltry 4 percent market share and losses of over $1 billion. These were big companies.