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Lateral Thinking in Business Strategy

Destination Innovation

How can you differenitate your business from the competition? Let’s look at some examples of lateral thinking in business strategy and innovation. Dyson disrupted the vacuum cleaner market by creating bagless vacuum cleaners, a concept that challenged the traditional vacuum design and improved performance.

Strategy 169
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Top Strategy and Innovation Books of 2019

Leapfrogging

The best strategy & innovation books deliver new insights, examples and tools for reinventing business. I’ve recently written about the disruptive change and innovation upending markets like product packaging, travel and hospitality, management consulting, construction, healthcare, and manufacturing. Rita McGrath .

Strategy 100
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Book Review: A new way to think by Roger Martin

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm lucky to have the opportunity to read and review a number of books in the innovation and strategy space, and I find many of the books have interesting insights or promote new ideas but often aren't overly actionable. It should be a book that all managers read.

Strategy 111
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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. His latest book, What a Unicorn Knows , is available on Amazon and reveals the secrets to building high growth startups. Here’s a Q&A with Matt that highlights the key points in the book.

Strategy 130
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Discontinuous Innovation: Transforming Industries & Creating New Markets

Qmarkets

By definition, it refers to the introduction of groundbreaking products or services that fundamentally change market dynamics, often rendering existing solutions obsolete. This form of innovation doesn’t just improve on existing products; it completely redefines them, creating entirely new markets and consumer behaviors.

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Poverty in prosperity: What can market creators learn from American poverty?

Christensen Institute

But, it doesn’t have to be this way if this question is asked: What kind of market do I want to create? In reading this book, self reflection and, consequently, responsibility become calls-to-action, helping the reader identify how we are part of the problem…but also part of the solution.

Marketing 124
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Powering Up Your Strategy: Success Factors for Executive Team Offsites

Leapfrogging

In today’s fast-paced business environment, crafting and leading an effective executive team offsite has emerged as a pivotal strategy for fostering alignment, stimulating innovation, and bolstering organizational resilience. Selecting the Right Venue The venue for your offsite plays a significant role in contributing to its success.

Strategy 130