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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

Back then, unicorns by this definition were indeed as rare and magical as their mythical namesake. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput. Of course, not all friction is bad. Without innovation, inertia will govern speed.

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The cost of delaying innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

The question management teams are asking and answering is: how can we manage our near term costs to keep the investors happy in the short run? Note that this is NOT a bad question to ask, because investors are constantly watching the effectiveness of the management team and want to see companies hitting their numbers.

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How To Build An Innovation Capability That Lasts

Innov8rs

In order to remain competitive, companies must continually develop new products, services, and processes that meet the needs of their customers. Efficiency Optimization Organizations have eliminated risk and variance in their operations through rightsizing, outsourcing, lean, and agile. Strategic Alignment Innovation is not a strategy.

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Why business model innovation is so compelling

Jeffrey Phillips

There's a real sense that we in the corporate world are standing on the brink of an amazing transition, moving from relatively older, static models of competition based on corporate size and mass, to new competitive realities dictated by speed, agility and innovation.

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What is Digital Transformation in Business and Why is it Important?

Moves the Needle

While just like for startups, large enterprises benefit from the tumbling costs of developing digital products, they face deep-rooted problems that come from being large and successful. High complexity and high cost means the only organizations that can afford the technology are government, academia and very large companies.

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A Recap of Innova-Con 2018: The Maturation of Innovation Management Continues

Innovation Architecture

The IAOIP in its development finds itself at the right place at the right time, based on conversations that I had with the members at Innova-Con: practitioners there expressed a need to define, embrace, and master standards for the field in response to their organizations’ call to achieve ever greater levels of innovation.

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Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. Companies or Government agencies pursuing innovation can Buy, Build, Partner or use Open Innovation. The Lean Definition of the Three Horizons of Innovation. I’ve been working with large companies and the U.S.

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