Idea to Value
APRIL 12, 2022
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.
Qmarkets
MARCH 16, 2018
Another example I like to present is Nintendo, originally a purveyor of handmade playing cards, attempted to enter a number of new markets due to the fact that consumer interest in playing cards had decreased substantially. Rising competition from Apple and Google caught Nokia out of position and led to near-bankruptcy in 2012.
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Daniel Burrus
DECEMBER 19, 2018
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. Trends that are linear (and not cyclical) present the best opportunity for exponential change.
BrainZooming
JANUARY 27, 2016
While the two team approach was designed to keep the longer-term team from getting pulled into today’s fires, it presented challenges. The innovation team spent 15% of its time on core brand renovation to enhance competitiveness. One chart depicted (I think) growth factors in the beer market from 2012 to 2014.
Idea Drop
SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
They filed for bankruptcy in 2012. Each CEO was so ignorant of history that they presented the same business plan over and over again, until Netflix was ready to take their market share with a bulletproof online offering. Lesson: If you don’t do it, someone else will. Lesson: Experience is only one element of your customer journey.
Adam Hartung
OCTOBER 16, 2015
By February, 2012 I pointed out that the big reorganization at Wal-Mart was akin to re-arranging deck chairs on a sinking ship and said nobody should own the stock. Where it was in January, 2012 and only 10% higher than when I first said to avoid the stock in 2010. I continued to say that this disease would cripple Wal-Mart.
Paul Hobcraft
OCTOBER 22, 2017
So this Sunday I went back to a range of concepts that all have critical impact on the innovation process that many of the present popular thinking parts only trigger that part of the innovation system for incremental improvement, even if it is dramatic for one person or a team exposed to it. Going back and reminding myself.
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