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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. Competition aside, both face opposing physical forces that must be overcome to win. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput.

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5 Excuses of companies that don't innovate (and how to overcome them)

Moves the Needle

Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. What they need in order to be more competitive may or may not require technical innovation. It’s our internal startups: that’s why we have an incubator.

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5 Excuses of Companies that Don’t Innovate (And How to Overcome Them)

Moves the Needle

Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. What they need in order to be more competitive may or may not require technical innovation. It’s our internal startups: that’s why we have an incubator.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 2

Tim Kastelle

Research confirms: development of exploration in parallel to exploitation capabilities proves to be mandatory for established companies in order to compete successfully and sustainably. One way for established organizations to strengthen exploration is by developing internal capabilities in order to overcome their inherent inertia.

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive. The platform environment is mostly characterized by a tension between collboration and competition of the participating companies, often referred to as coopetition. Cases in point: Lego and Burberry.

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The Key to Effective Value Proposition Development

Taivara

The Key to Effective Value Proposition Development. If you have an immediate problem to solve, we’ve found that bringing a cross-functional team together to tackle the problem head-on yields positive results fast. This step is typically easier if you’ve developed a solution for a problem. Let's build together.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

What if you turned from B2C to B2B (or viceversa)? What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? The manufacturing industry is becoming increasingly capable of creating small batches (or even single units) of personalized products at very competitive prices. Users can contact businesses via Whatsapp.