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7 Things Every CEO Should Know About Their Patents

Anaqua

Even in the most extreme cases where there is a perfect intersection of data, analytics, valuable metrics, and huge incentives to utilize and optimize, we see both surprising catastrophic failures, and stunning opportunites in markets. End of 2012 $7,473. Motorola Balance Sheet, intangible assets (in millions): End of 2012 $109.

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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

Model-Prioritize-Test Over the years, while this meta-process has stayed the same, many more models (Customer Factory Blueprint, Customer Forces Canvas, Traction Roadmap), prioritization tools, and testing techniques have been developed in response to chasing yet more questions: - How do you size business models? -

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Leading Innovation = Managing Uncertainty

Strategyzer Innovation

While generating new ideas and inventing new technologies is important, it is even more important for innovators to identify the unknowns that have to be true for their ideas and technologies to succeed in the market. Google constantly improving their search engine), taking existing products to new markets (e.g. Amazon launching AWS).

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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

Model-Prioritize-Test Over the years, while this meta-process has stayed the same, many more models (Customer Factory Blueprint, Customer Forces Canvas, Traction Roadmap), prioritization tools, and testing techniques have been developed in response to chasing yet more questions: - How do you size business models? -

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Creative Construction – Book review

The Inovo Group

The experience of someone who has actually had to do innovation – taking an initial idea to market successfully. Despite this, the book presents a compelling case for large company innovation and a very useful framework of strategy, system and culture that large companies can use as a high-level roadmap for becoming innovative.

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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? Technology roadmapping? After Discontinuity Futures. Would that company invest in R&D?

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The 10 Reasons People Buy New Products

New Markets Advisors

I advocate for developing a rich understanding of consumers that allows companies to build successful products and market them in the right way. Yet entrepreneurs, marketers, product managers, and other innovators often get lost in the complexity of their businesses and their new ideas. The global wellness market is large and growing.