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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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What is the ambition matrix and how does it work as part of an innovation portfolio?

Idea to Value

Originally developed by the strategy consultants at Monitor (now part of Deloitte) and made famous by a breakthrough article in Harvard Business Review by Geoff Tuff and Bansi Nagji, the Ambition Matrix is a tool which helps companies identify ways to execute their strategy around where to play and how to win.

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16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies

BrainZooming

You can apply these creative thinking questions to trigger your own brand’s strategic thinking on innovation strategy: Strategy. How is our leadership removing distractions to innovation (instead of creating them)? Customer-Focused Innovation Strategy. Branding and Marketing. Branding and Marketing.

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Agile Strategy – 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Disruptive Innovation

BrainZooming

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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5 Leadership Lessons from 2015’s Business Headlines

Adam Hartung

But there are 5 major leadership themes from 2015 that can help companies be better in 2016: 1 – Cost cutting, restructurings and stock buybacks do not increase company value – Dow/DuPont. There is no intent of introducing new products or entering new markets via this merger. 2015 was not short on bad decisions, nor bad outcomes.

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So What Exactly Should Kodak Have Done?

Destination Innovation

In 1976 Kodak enjoyed 90% market share of film sales and 85% share of camera sales in the USA. Yet in 2012 it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy – laid low by the switch from film based photography to digital photography. Kodak entered the digital camera market late but by 2001 they were number 2 in the USA behind Sony.

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Strategic Planning in a Dancing Landscape

MSSBTI

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. Consider a company that had an international expansion plan in 2012. By 2013, Brazil and India were both suspect.