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The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases

Tullio Siragusa

The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases In the modern business landscape, we often hear the argument that leaders should be hired from within the same industry to be effective. Proponents of this belief argue that familiarity with industry jargon, processes, and nuances is indispensable.

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Less than half of people would describe themselves as creative

Idea to Value

And a series of surveys by Adobe in 2012 and 2016 show just how few people consider themselves to be creative. Here are the answers which these 5,000 people gave: As you can see, less than half of people on average (39% in 2012 and 41% in 2016) would describe themselves as creative. Are you living up to your creative potential?

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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. But what does a well-balanced innovation portfolio look like? So what is the best new ratio for companies. Well, that depends.

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Innovation in the Automotive Industry

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The automotive industry is undergoing massive technological and social change. The result is a new whitepaper, “ Innovations in the Automotive Industry ,” which provides insights on some of the more interesting developments and technologies in the market. Note: these numbers come from Crunchbase).

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ISS Software GmbH and Wazoku partner to revolutionise the German insurance industry

Wazoku

ISS Software GmbH and Wazoku are set to transform the German insurance sector by enabling the co-creation of new solutions for insurance organisations for and in collaboration with the wider industry. The company was founded in 2012 and is growing by 80% year on year, having reached over 1,000,000 users globally.

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Brands In Memoriam 2012

CorporateIntel

It’s ironic that an industry that flies you around in the sky at 500 mph and largely invented the modern loyalty program today can’t come up with more clever ways to achieve growth than eliminating its own competition—plus five extra inches of leg room, baggage checks, and those yummy inflight box lunches are now upsells.

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

Idea to Value

You can identify the pioneers in an industry … They are the ones with arrows in their back. Probably the most important study of first mover advantage came in 1993, when Golder & Tellis analysed 500 companies across 50 product segments. It is a classic example of survivorship bias. There are proponents of both camps.

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