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Options-based Strategy: An Approach for Uncertain Times

The Inovo Group

This is the second in a series of articles about the convergence of strategy and innovation. For more information about the series, and a list of published and upcoming articles, please visit A New Era of Strategy and Innovation. Most strategies are built on specific beliefs about the future. Highlights.

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5 Leadership Lessons from 2015’s Business Headlines

Adam Hartung

2015 was not short on bad decisions, nor bad outcomes. 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. Because of McDonald’s size and legacy the media covered this story heavily in 2015.

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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. The holistic approach of how a company is implementing a strategy and works its way towards its vision is described by the logic of all dimensions of its business model – the WHO, WHAT, HOW and VALUE.

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Five Barriers to the Innovation Process and How to Overcome Them

IdeaScale

If a company developed a way of doing things in 2015, then it was likely the ideal one at the time. Uncertain Strategy. A well-implemented strategy is key to any innovation process, but that doesn’t mean finding one is easy. The key is to ask yourself what strategy complements your company structure.

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Applying Blue Ocean Strategy and winning Gold

Innovation 360

This blog post is about how Mina applied her learning from the education: blue ocean strategy, finding the “sweet spot”, SWOT-analysis, Osterwalders business model, and the Lean Startup concept (minimum viable effort). Mina competed and won at the Swedish swimming championships received 4 medals (2 gold and 2 silver) in December 2015.

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Four Mind-Bending Business Models to Shake Up 2016

Leapfrogging

Here are four strategies to watch in 2016: Exclusivity – Play Hard to Get, to Get More Customers. It’s all about “playing hard to get” with your customers, something pretty counterintuitive in today’s fiercely competitive world. Figuring out how to rise above the competitive noise can be mind-bending in itself.

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Social Media Strategy – Helping the C-Suite Understand Social 

BrainZooming

.” The presentation, which I will expand as the closing keynote at the Social Media Strategies Summit in Boston on October 21, 2015, revolved around multiple analogies related to social media strategy and content marketing. For the Real Time Marketing Lab event, I closed with a brand new social media strategy analogy.