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Soren Kaplan’s April 2015 Leapfrogging Newsletter

Leapfrogging

Sustained competitive advantage comes from innovating how we innovate. The most innovative companies today realize that competitive differentiation comes as much from how they innovate as it does from what they’re innovating. 7 Millennials Who Are Too Busy Changing The World To Take Selfies.

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Innovation 2015 or Five Lame Excuses?

Gregg Fraley

Innovation ca feel a lot like that — your competition is a big tough impossible-to-beat player like Superman. Now is the time to impact 2015. Projects are what change culture. In fact, Nothing changes innovation culture except real world innovation projects. It’s the Only Kryptonite.

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What Does a Chief Innovation Officer Do?

IdeaScale

In this survey from 2015, researchers report that 43% of large companies have some sort of top innovation executive in place, which was up from 33% in 2011. A Chief Innovation Officer can look to an organization for guidance and principles, but they also have to create meaning and excitement around change.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

Learnings from sports competitions Competition in business is similar to sports competitions – there are winners and losers. You don’t need to “reinvent the wheel” for small but innovative changes in your business model, instead get inspired by existing concepts in other industries and apply them to your business model.

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Make Digital Disruption Your Biggest Competitive Advantage

Daniel Burrus

While some industries have been affected more than others, it’s a Hard Trend that the transformational changes caused by digital disruption are increasing in frequency across the board, and will continue to do so. The question is: Are you simply going to react to these changes, or are you going to put yourself ahead of them?

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Surviving change: how law firms can innovate

Wazoku

Burying your heads in the sand when change occurs within your market is the wrong approach. Change needs to be embraced and seen as an opportunity to evolve, rather than a threat. According to PwC’s 2015 Annual Law Firm Survey, 95% of the law firms plan to increase investment in IT in 2016 to do just that. Facing the challenge.

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Focusing on Innovation for our Energy Transition we are all undertaking

Paul Hobcraft

When you are undertaking such a transformation in any system like energy, innovation becomes vital to inject new forces of dynamism and creative thinking to tackling such a change. Any change needs to find a way to create local economic value and jobs, as others in any change of this magnitude will be displaced.

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