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Forget Best Practice, Think Always Of Learning Next Practice

Paul Hobcraft

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. Agile product development. Users of technology.

Learning 162
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Manufacturing Isn’t Dead, It’s Just Transforming Before Our Eyes

Leapfrogging

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. No longer relegated to trinkets or prototyping, 3D printing is now going into full-scale mass production. It also promises to reshape competition.

Software 100
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How to be More Agile as Competitive Advantages Fade

New Markets Advisors

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been telling us that the traditional strategy of finding and exploiting a sustainable competitive advantage is becoming outdated.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.

Agile 40
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My innovation journey (so far)

Jeffrey Phillips

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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Use Intuition for Innovation Just Like Apple and Target

Leapfrogging

I wrote about this extensively in my book Leapfrogging. Robyn Waters, the former vice president of trend, design and product development, once told me the same thing. When we try to hold large amounts of information in our heads–like all the trends, customer needs, competitive activity, etc.

Data 130
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Which pace of change to align to?

Jeffrey Phillips

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.

Change 113
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I don't want to live in a Ready Player One world

Jeffrey Phillips

I have a small book about these experiences that one day I'll get organized and published. What it means - and what we are seeing - is an increasing focus on innovation in intangible ideas, and less and less innovation in tangible ideas, assets and products.

Software 157