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Intentionality and the Differentiating Competitive Advantage 

Planview

Fresh off the pain of my poor Boilermakers loss in the NCAA tournament, I reflect on what a startling competitive disadvantage you’re at if your competitor can score buckets at three times your team’s speed. Speed of software delivery is either a competitive advantage or a startling disadvantage in the digital age.

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Podcast S3E54: Rita McGrath – Seeing inflection points of innovation

Idea to Value

Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:02:00 – Competitive advantages are no longer sustainable, and innovation is needed to replace these constantly. 00:11:30 – Example of leadership choices and decision making from a Virtual Bank. 00:11:30 – Example of leadership choices and decision making from a Virtual Bank.

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The Future of Banking –  Promises and Threats

Rmukesh Gupta

One of the industries that seems to be on the cusp of going through a similar upheaval seems to be the banking industry. If you look at what a bank does at its core, it is only two things: Collect money from parties (individuals, businesses and governments) and keep them safe and pay them whenever they need the same back.

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AI Has Taken the Boardroom by Storm. Here’s What You Must Know.

Planview

How will you leverage generative AI as a competitive advantage? The Rise of Digital Operating Models In their book Competing in the Age of AI , Harvard professors Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani illustrated how AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value.

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Tart-up or Start up? Two innovation strategies for established companies

Idea to Value

Established companies have a cash flow from their current business, assets or goodwill to mortgage, a proven record with banks. The mindset of competition and customer satisfaction in known areas is different from that of creating new business models. Raising money is easier for them. Different decision-taking norms.

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Four Innovation Lessons You Can Learn from Amazon

IdeaScale

From its beginnings in a garage selling books over the internet, it’s become a technological and social behemoth redefining not just book sales, but commerce, upending entire industries and putting pressure on entire sectors of the economy to innovate or else. Amazon is everywhere, and innovation is why.

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When Pundits Say That Robots Will Take Our Jobs, Remember These 4 Things

Innovation Excellence

The number of bank tellers has doubled since ATMs were introduced. In a similar way we don’t expect bank tellers to process transactions any more, but to help us with things that we can’t do at an ATM. Let’s think back to what a traditional bank looked like before ATMs or the Internet. Good service was fast service.