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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. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts. via Shutterstock.

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Innovation Strategy – Pat McGauley and a New Beer in Town

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The Kansas City American Marketing Association monthly lunch addressed that question. On a market segmentation chart, Pat was making the point that there are multiple ways to grow from innovation. One chart depicted (I think) growth factors in the beer market from 2012 to 2014. – Mike Brown.

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Now Streaming: Extreme Creativity with Vickie Howell

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EAG: I think it’s the fact that when you saw that the market wasn’t doing what it had been doing, you took things into your own hands and found a way to do it anyway. It was a huge learning curve, and there are a lot of lessons still being learned. I’m like, WHAT?! He says, It was really good! I was so impressed!

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Get Real About Your Company’s Future

The Inovo Group

When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, Research in Motion (RIM) was a major player in a worldwide market that sold about one billion cell phones annually (the term “smartphone” was new). Conduct market research? After Discontinuity Futures. Would that company invest in R&D? Technology roadmapping?

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Ten Years Now and Mike Brown Has a Blog

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He’s about to leave his job as a strategic planning and marketing VP at a Fortune 500 transportation company and he’s got this whole other direction mapped out for himself—he’s been blogging now for a couple of years in preparation for this move. By 2012 I’m no longer working for myself, as I’ve discovered that I’m terrible at it.

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The 10 Telltale Signs of Future Troubles for WalMart

Adam Hartung

Another telltale of a company single-mindedly focused on execution, to the point of ignoring market shifts created by changing consumer tastes, improvements at competitors and the rapid growth of on-line retailing. There was no strategic thinking happening at WalMart, as executives believed there would never be a need to change the strategy.

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