Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

What’s the secret to a winning business model and long-term competitive advantage? Your customer experienc e may just be the ultimate competitive advantage. What makes the repeat dimension so powerful is that it involves positive feedback effects that, over time, can create a tremendous, sustainable competitive advantage.

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IdeaSpies

APRIL 16, 2019

In 1985, a relatively unknown professor at Harvard Business School named Michael Porter published a book called Competitive Advantage , which explained that by optimizing every facet of the value chain , a firm could consistently outperform its competitors. The book was an immediate success and made Porter a management superstar.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2017

Pause to acknowledge Daniel Pink I'd like to pause here and tip my hat to Daniel Pink, who wrote a really good book that is becoming ever more prescient. Daniel Pink wrote a book entitled A Whole New Mind in 2005, and at the time the book had a nice reception. If it can be automated, it will be automated.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

These books can help you become a better learner. In this blog, we’ll share some of the most highly rated books about learning how to learn. This book features 6 simple steps to learn anything – find out how you can expand your knowledge without spending lots of money or dedicating thousands of hours to the process.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 9, 2023

In today's fast-paced business landscape, companies face constant pressure to stay ahead of the competition and maintain their market share. Yet, even successful and established companies can fall victim to the "Innovator's Dilemma."

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 23, 2024

He speaks about when he set his goals, he almost always set his ultimate measure of success as being “the best”: When I wrote my first business book, The Idea Book, I wanted it to be ranked as one of the best. Other business books which outsold his. We cannot control how much money our new innovation will bring in.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 30, 2020

What’s the secret to a winning business model and long-term competitive advantage? Your customer experience may just be the ultimate competitive advantage. Strategy and innovation experts Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch just published a new book called Connected Strategy: Building Continuous.

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 11, 2023

These days, innovation has become, far too often, solipsistic and self-referential, pursued for the glory of the innovators themselves rather than for the benefit of anyone else and there is increasing evidence the venture-funded entrepreneurship model is crowding out more productive investments.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Confronting Your Darwin Effect through innovation. I have been working away, call it my labour of love, with plenty of frustrating moments but have “pushed on” through sheer determination, on my thinking through the ‘harnessing’ of the dynamics within innovation. It is so hard to let go!

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 15, 2020

Learn what works in innovation from these ten books. Part of building a great innovation strategy is to learn about the history of innovation. Here are ten books every innovator should crack as they build a new innovation approach. Running Lean , by Ash Maurya Innovation strategy starts with a plan.

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Planview

APRIL 6, 2023

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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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

I spoke to 11 of the world’s leading female innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? 15 experts share their innovation definition in order to answer the question of “What is innovation?”

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Innovation in Practice

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

I’m thrilled to let you know my new book, So You Want to Be a Professor: How to Land Your Dream Job in Academia , just launched! If you or someone you know ever considered teaching, I hope you read this book. Competition for college professor roles is fierce. Read my book and find out.

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IdeaSpies

APRIL 17, 2019

In 1985, a relatively unknown professor at Harvard Business School named Michael Porter published a book called Competitive Advantage which explained that, by optimizing every facet of the value chain, a firm could consistently outperform its competitors. The book was an immediate success and made Porter a management superstar.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 10, 2023

How can you differenitate your business from the competition? Let’s look at some examples of lateral thinking in business strategy and innovation. Nintendo introduced a major innovation with motion controls in the Wii gaming console, revolutionizing the gaming industry. This innovation made Dyson a leader in the industry.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 6, 2020

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Professor Rita McGrath, one of the world’s most respected experts on the intersection between strategy and innovation. 00:03:00 – Resource allocation is really at the core of strategy, and innovation requires these investments as well.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 30, 2019

One of the most rewarding things about writing my book Mapping Innovation was talking to the innovators themselves. All of them were prominent (one recently won the Nobel Prize), but I found them to be the among the kindest and most generous people you can imagine, nothing like the difficult and mercurial stereotype.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In recent years, more and more companies have realized the need for innovation as they’ve seen businesses all around them, and perhaps even their own business, being disrupted. According to McKinsey research , 96% of executives have made innovation a strategic priority, yet only 6% are satisfied with their innovation performance.

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Innovation Walk

JUNE 7, 2019

When we want to book a hotel we automatically go to our favourite online travel agency (OTA), also known as a booking portal. Sometimes there are deals on a certain hotel and you immediately book to save money. Here I share my thoughts on 2 rising travel innovators and the advantages of direct bookings.

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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). I've made some great friends along the way and been influenced by a range of great innovation thought leaders. Too much time at the innovation coal face was making me a bit cynical.

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Stephen Shapiro

JUNE 10, 2024

“Shapiro has written a grounded book for dizzying times. PINK, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Drive , The Power of Regret , and To Sell Is Human “Innovation has become the default—but what happens when innovation becomes the enemy of quality and focus? you need to read this book.” — THOMAS H.

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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. Why can't we innovate?

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 23, 2017

Competing Against Luck is the rather curious title of a new book by the eminent innovation guru, Clayton Christensen, ably assisted by three acolytes, Hall, Dillon and Duncan. The authors argue that managers focus mainly on product features, customer characteristics, trends, market data and competitive offerings.

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Cris Beswick

MARCH 14, 2024

In today’s business landscape, characterised by rapid technological change, evolving customer expectations, and non-traditional competitors, building the organisation-wide capability to innovate continuously is more vital than ever. At its core, Innovation is about identifying and creatively solving problems to deliver new value.

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ImagineNation

JUNE 3, 2024

This involved collaborating with one of the top game design companies to co-create a live business simulation incorporating innovative gamification elements intending to teach corporations how to be innovat ive. I had not undertaken sufficient research studies to determine if users wanted and were ready to accept a radical innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

I wrote Relentless Innovation as a way to frame some of the things I'd learned about the way culture resists change, and how a "business as usual" approach can stymie innovation. But even with these obstacles it would seem we should have more innovation than we do. I've recognized for a while that some major challenges exist.

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Stephen Shapiro

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I asked it: “ Please write me an 800 word blog entry on why innovation is important to large organizations. Be sure to include your definition of innovation and 5 steps on how to make innovation a reality.” Innovation is important for large organizations for a number of reasons.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 17, 2024

Discontinuous innovation represents a seismic shift in how industries function and evolve. This form of innovation doesn’t just improve on existing products; it completely redefines them, creating entirely new markets and consumer behaviors. Examples include Electric Vehicles (EVs), and streaming media like Spotify or Netflix.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 8, 2022

The Peter Principle was expounded in the 1969 book of this name by Canadian educator, Laurence J. If you do not promote your top performers you might lose them to competition. appeared first on Destination Innovation. Laurence Peter (1919-1990). It states that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their level of incompetence.

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Linda Bernardi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Always great to see competition among the known tech giants that we know. Technology Innovation Institute’s (TII) release of Falcon 180B – A 180-billion-parameter Large Language Model (LLM) – was such a surprise entry a few days ago. As many of you know, I am a strong advocate of Global Innovation. Nothing new there.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 30, 2020

Innovation culture has long been one of the most challenging, and oft-discussed, topics in our conversations with business and innovation leaders. What is an innovation culture? The question we need start with is to actually define what an innovation culture is. Why is an innovative culture so important?

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This new management method makes it nearly impossible for innovation teams to fail at delivering multiple challenging innovation projects faster, with less risk and lower required budgets. Most innovation experts often say that traditional management processes are not the way to run innovation projects. And this is true.

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Phil McKinney

JUNE 7, 2023

Innovation is the lifeblood of any organization—be it a startup or a seasoned corporation. But with innovation comes risk, and with risk comes resistance. Innovation antibodies can be that internal or external roadblocks that see their role to protect the organization from risk. Or the Vice Premier of Taiwan.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Amazon is everywhere, and innovation is why. Amazon has been one of the key innovative drivers of the twenty-first century. But how did it reach that level of innovation, and what can we learn from it? Innovate Outside Your Edges. Amazon constantly innovates outside the edges. Apply Your Competencies. Contact us !

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

JANUARY 1, 2020

This is a list of books that I read in 2019, not necessarily a list of books that were published in 2019. The 50 Greatest Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy – Books that cover a wide range of topics can be hit or miss. The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Inventions – It’s probably not fair to say that I read this book.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

Even though this was over 20 years ago, OpenTable’s “backstory” demonstrates tried and true practices for innovators that remain important today. Many innovators agonize over the name of their company. That’s what creates competitive advantage. Two decades ago, OpenTable proved out these five important innovation lessons.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 11, 2023

Matthew Desmond’s most recent book Poverty, by America claims that poverty in the US exists because we (the book defines “we” as financially secure Americans) profit from it: exploiting the poor in our housing markets, our financial markets, and our labor markets. These questions may serve as helpful guides: 1.

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