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Think Your Business Will Exist in 10 Years?

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” Outgoing Cisco CEO, John Chambers, told the company’s customers that in 2015. Three years hence, is your leadership team challenging itself to think, plan, and innovate strategically to land on the right side of future success? Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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Innovation Strategy – 4 Examples Where NOT Acting Might Be Smarter

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Based on several stories last week extolling the benefits of being “lazy” when it comes to innovation strategy, you would think the LAZY days of summer are here a few weeks early (at least in the northern hemisphere). 4 Examples Where NOT Acting Might Be a Smarter Innovation Strategy. Yet, consider these stories.

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Innovation Strategy – Pat McGauley and a New Beer in Town

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What’s the story on the innovation strategy for beer? Former Vice President of Innovation at Anheuser-Busch, Pat McGauley , shared stories of his past twelve years creating the company’s innovation team. Pat’s innovation team was responsible for product and packaging innovation. Pat formed two innovation teams.

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Creative Strategy Formula – Snickers and Lead, Copy, Swerve, Integrate, Go

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The campaign continued in 2015. In September 2015, Snickers introduced new packaging, replacing its brand name on candy bar wrappers. Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas?

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Strategic Direction – Listening for Divine Messages

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Our motivation is to help you daily, and we will do everything we can to fulfill on the promise even better in 2016 than we did in 2015. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and ideas! Mike Brown.

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Strategic Planning in a Dancing Landscape

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In 2014, Russia collapsed due to oil prices and sanctions, and in 2015, China no longer looked like a strong bet. The idea that strategic thinking occurs on 1 year, 3 year, or even 5 year horizons is collapsed to much shorter 3 month, 6 month, and 12 months (or perhaps shorter) with maybe a 2 year view in the misty distance.

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Creative Thinking – 5 Ideas for How to Make Money from Your Passion

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Charles Westcott (@TaichiCharlie) November 26, 2015. We haven’t tackled that topic previously, so the first creative thinking move was sketching out a matrix comparing the degree someone is able to express a personal creative version versus how much they are getting paid for it. What you got?