Business and Tech

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Real estate industry leaders share their insights on how the rental market has evolved in the face of COVID-19 and rapidly advancing technology. What is the biggest trend you’ve seen in the rental industry during the pandemic? It’s an industry ripe for innovation. Dylan Lenz Founder and CEO, Naborly. They want to be more mobile.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Mastering strategic thinking can significantly influence your organization’s trajectory, driving innovation and maintaining a competitive edge. Seek out resources, such as books, podcasts, and articles, that challenge your thinking and expand your knowledge.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Mastering strategic thinking can significantly influence your organization’s trajectory, driving innovation and maintaining a competitive edge. Seek out resources, such as books, podcasts, and articles, that challenge your thinking and expand your knowledge.

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Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Training 100

Digital Tonto

JUNE 11, 2023

We need to shift our focus from disrupting industries to tackling grand challenges. While researching my book "Mapping Innovation," I had the opportunity to interview dozens of great innovators, from world-class scientists to super-successful entrepreneurs and top executives at some of the world’s largest corporations.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The trouble is we tend to go to the familiar places; those tried and tested norms, the expected answers that have been well developed as our industry solutions and established as the features our customers expect. Going cross-industry. The whole concept of cross-industry is to seek out new ideas. Enjoy the ride!

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Idea to Value

APRIL 6, 2020

Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:02:00 – Competitive advantages are no longer sustainable, and innovation is needed to replace these constantly. 00:15:30 – How you allocate your innovate portfolio will depend on which industry you are in. Book: Seeing around corners: [link].

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 29, 2020

I've been reading a fair number of books and articles lately about digital transformation. If this sounds a bit dire, try reading the book entitled The Big Nine by Amy Webb. While there is some benefit to centralized planning and control, there are also benefits to competition.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 3, 2020

Here does lie a true competitive component and so many organizations seek to apply someone else’s practice so they can end up as “same” practice. We are facing such an unprecedented change and technology is re-writing the rule book in everything we are going to do. Moving from “Best Practice” to “Next Practice”. Living on the Web.

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Christensen Institute

AUGUST 29, 2023

Organizing a business model around a customer’s job gives companies a competitive advantage and fuels its growth. In his book, Competing Against Luck, Clayton Christensen shares how companies that organize their business models around serving a Job to Be Done have a competitive advantage over those who do not.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

You can kick off a meeting with a quick question round, such as “What’s your favorite book?” You can curate questions related to your industry, general knowledge, or even fun facts about team members. They encourage creative thinking and problem-solving in a fun and competitive environment.

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New Markets Advisors

MAY 29, 2019

For years, Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath has been telling us that the traditional strategy of finding and exploiting a sustainable competitive advantage is becoming outdated. The world is evolving too quickly for competitive advantages to last for a meaningful amount of time. Or so the argument goes.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

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. Its recent moves, in particular, underscore this.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

They highlight the significance of innovation in staying competitive and adapting to the ever-changing business landscape. Before booking a speaker, research their track record by reviewing testimonials, ratings from past events, and any awards or recognitions they have received for their speaking engagements.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Large scale 3D printing farms will create the next industrial revolution. 3D printing promises to do for industry what the internet has done to the information world. That’s my takeaway from a new book, The Pan-Industrial Revolution: How New Manufacturing Titans Will Transform the World.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 26, 2015

Today, as more and more industries and businesses become disrupted, it is important to understand that digital disruption happens in waves. If your career, business, and industry has already been digitally disrupted, plan on it being disrupted again. . What does all of this mean?

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 12, 2022

In what is probably one of the most revered books among innovators, Edward De Bono wrote about six "thinking" hats. The point of his book is to recognize and acknowledge that many people, either intentionally or often unintentionally, play roles or "wear hats" that represent a specific point of view.

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Imaginatik

MAY 29, 2018

BOSTON – May 29, 2018 – Imaginatik today announced the publication of a groundbreaking new business book, Topple – The End of the Firm-Based Strategy and Rise of New Models for Explosive Growth. A changed competitive environment creates new rules and steps to take — as useful for start-ups as for mid-market firms and global brands. “The

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 19, 2018

By using metrics, a business will study the practices, designs, and financial outcomes of industry leaders with one distinct purpose: To keep up with the pacesetters. Keeping up—with technology, with the competition, with anything in business or life—is what some would call a fool’s game. There’s just one problem.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2023

I've been leading innovation work for close to 20 years, writing about it on this blog and in my book (Relentless Innovation). We felt that to remain competitive, larger companies needed to recapture the sense of wonder and adventure that working in the "front end" of innovation would create. I think a re-introduction is in order.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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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Christensen Institute

MARCH 29, 2022

This book constantly informs our global prosperity work at the Christensen Institute, with innovative frameworks based on years of research on how to educate and train personnel across various entities and government bodies in order to help make economies more prosperous for everyone. A “ pull ” strategy can drive sustainable development.

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Phil McKinney

JUNE 7, 2023

Eventually, my partner in crime at HP, Henry Sang, and I created a secret "dark lab" that was off the books. Dark Innovation Enhances Competitive Advantage By working in secret, teams can create a competitive advantage by keeping their innovation hidden from competitors.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 9, 2022

I wrote about this extensively in my book Leapfrogging. When we try to hold large amounts of information in our heads–like all the trends, customer needs, competitive activity, etc. going on in an industry, or even multiple industries–we simply can’t process such complexity with what we’ve got between our ears.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 5, 2018

The new game, as demonstrated by a number of emerging disrupters, is captured in the book Unscaled and discussed at length in this nice blog post - one I wish I could have written. There are a couple of overlapping points here, but the main idea is that scale as a competitive weapon is increasingly passe.

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The BMI Lab Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Learnings from sports competitions Competition in business is similar to sports competitions – there are winners and losers. You don’t need to “reinvent the wheel” for small but innovative changes in your business model, instead get inspired by existing concepts in other industries and apply them to your business model.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The agricultural and industrial revolutions, as well as the adoption of electricity, have clearly been huge drivers of productivity for our society. While information technology and the Internet still continue to drive economic growth and disrupt certain industries, we’re on the verge of the next wave.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 21, 2019

One of those industry that feel the pressure of Big Techs is insurance. In the insurance industry, the emergence of Insurtechs (insurance + technology) is a phenomenon similar to that of Fintechs. Why are Big Techs making the Insurance Industry lose their sleep? How can a User-Centrism strategy help you tackle Big Techs?

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Strategyzer Innovation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

We’re writing a new book called The Invincible Company. The book builds upon Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , and it takes a deep dive into how world-class companies continuously reinvent their business models. We thought we’d highlight three of our upcoming cases as a sneak peek into our new book.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 8, 2022

I have always been a fan of the book “ The Medici Effect; breakthrough insights at the intersections of ideas, concepts and culture ” by Frans Johansson. I always find it interesting when different though-strands seem to collide. You can put that down to serendipity, fate, luck or just being in the right spot at that time.

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Michael Michalko

JANUARY 27, 2022

This example comes from the ultra-competitive drinks industry. The music industry was turned on its head when iTunes and other music download sites were introduced – the idea that we no longer needed to walk in to a shop and buy a physical album was revolutionary and incredibly disruptive.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

In fact we can look back 20 to 30 years ago at some key events and agreements that at the time seemed relatively benign, but in fact have accelerated competition and innovation. This was the start of many more free trade agreements, as other countries began to reduce trade barriers and increase global competition. Those days are over.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 30, 2018

Whether we are talking about change in your global markets, in your industry or in your customer base, change is everywhere. The answer to that one is "yes" as well, and (shameless plug) I wrote a book about how to become more nimble, agile and innovative. How good is your competitive intelligence? AirBnB is a good example here.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 15, 2018

Corporate innovators should take note of how Jet.com and Wal-Mart are not, in fact, attempting a “me too” competition on Amazon’s terms. The 50-year old veteran of the hotel industry has embarked on a digital transformation to revitalize its fortunes and re-establish its market relevance and position.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A focus on innovation helps companies to adapt to rapidly changing markets, embrace new technologies, and stay ahead of the competition. Peer Recognition Endorsements from industry experts or professional accolades. Industry Insights Provide updates on the latest industry trends and technologies.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Trends Innovation Engagement 100

IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Six years ago, when Amazon sold primarily print books, company research showed that customers liked e-books—a new product that threatened Amazon’s core business. They did just that, and by 2011, e-books sales surpassed sales of print books. In fact, by April 2011, Amazon became the world’s largest e-book retailer.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Here lie a true competitive component and so many organizations seek to apply someone else’s practice, so they can end up as “same” practice. It is far better that you quickly benchmark assorted practices across yours and also different industries and then stop and reflect. Moving from “Best Practice” to “Next Practice”.

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Strategos

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

This is what happens in the case of strategy convergence, i.e. when within a particular industry all companies pursue similar strategies to compete with one another. that can become future core competencies to remain competitive and play to win. Organisations need to continuously develop new, technologies, skills, assets etc.

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