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? Airbnb’s “Experiences” Feature : Airbnb expanded beyond accommodation by offering “Experiences” where users can book unique activities hosted by locals. Let’s look at some examples of lateral thinking in business strategy and innovation.

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 11, 2023

Because digital technology has become so pervasive, offering a substantial architecture that lends itself to tweaking, we’ve lost the plot. The truth is that, for innovation, generosity is often a competitive advantage. We need to move away from hype and focus on impact.

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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. We’ve seen a sixfold increase year over year in residents booking month-to-month leases with no predetermined end date. How has technology helped empower the modern property manager?

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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. Business & technology specification.

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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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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 28, 2021

More and more we’re finding ourselves standing at the intersection of humanity and technology. Skills mobility—the ability to move from one job to another—will become a new competitive advantage. The constant cascade of new technologies will continue to create a more empowered population. that make us better leaders.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 6, 2017

I have set myself a goal to read at least 25 books this year, which roughly translates to about a book every couple of weeks. I also did not just want to read these books but also absorb and internalise the content of these books. So, here is the first book that I finished reading this year – The Growth Gears.

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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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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Why your company needs to think about crowdsourcing with the competition…. Understandably, the increase in competition and market saturation is seen by those who experience it as a direct threat to their organizational legitimacy. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” Sleeping With the Enemy.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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.

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ITONICS

JUNE 3, 2019

About the chapter: NEXT is a technology company with over 80,000 employees and one of the world’s leading companies in its sector. The post Book Chapter: Activities and Challenges in Environmental Scanning appeared first on. Nine questions and problems with solution hints.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 17, 2024

In this article, we delve into the essence of discontinuous innovation, its impact on the competitive landscape, and how businesses can harness its transformative potential. In the book, Christensen distinguishes between two types of innovation: sustaining innovation and discontinuous innovation.

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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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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. The challenge is that our world requires us to repeat those one-offs continuously. trillion in 2021.

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ITONICS

JUNE 3, 2019

About the chapter: NEXT is a technology company with over 80,000 employees and one of the world’s leading companies in its sector. The post Book Chapter: Activities and Challenges in Environmental Scanning appeared first on. Nine questions and problems with solution hints.

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Collective Innovation

OCTOBER 8, 2016

The Technology Adoption Cycle is based on the diffusion process which was originally developed for agricultural means but adapted and found to work just as well to identify how a new technology crosses the chasm from being unknown to being widely adopted.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

So let me tell you what this is all about, and I will describe this with heavy referencing from Geoffrey Moore’s book “ Dealing with Darwin “ Without a doubt, one of my favourite books in how it helped me piece together a large part of my dynamic innovation fitness puzzle. First, you have the internal view.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The greatest books that I read in 2018. My mom got this book for me as a gift a while back because she knew that I had loved the movie but I was adamant about not wanting to read it since I already knew what happened. For that reason it’s my pick as Book of the Year! These are two of those books, both by Ernest Cline.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 2, 2023

That’s because there’s never been more uncertainty – around technology, the economy, global-political turmoil, and just about everything else. In my latest book, Experiential Intelligence , I highlight the importance of understanding and developing your team’s mindsets, abilities, and know-how.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Technology Barriers : Not all team members may be comfortable with the technology required for virtual collaboration, leading to participation barriers. You can kick off a meeting with a quick question round, such as “What’s your favorite book?” ” or “Which city would you love to visit?”

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Why your company needs to think about crowdsourcing with the competition…. Understandably, the increase in competition and market saturation is seen by those who experience it as a direct threat to their organizational legitimacy. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” Sleeping With the Enemy.

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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. To develop a growth mindset, commit to lifelong learning.

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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. To develop a growth mindset, commit to lifelong learning.

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Stephen Shapiro

DECEMBER 27, 2022

First, innovation helps organizations stay competitive. By adopting new technologies or processes, organizations can streamline their operations and reduce their overhead costs. This can help them become more profitable and sustain their competitive advantage. What I like about the technology is it can be a good sounding board.

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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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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Now more than ever, it’s easier to get distracted by what the competition is doing because it’s all visible online. I believe the biggest risk to any business isn’t what your competition is doing, it’s getting distracted by it in a way that tempts you to change your own authentic mission and dilute your own secret sauce.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 13, 2019

Read on to understand what Exponential Growth is, how you can use technology to scale your business at exponential rates and more! Canadian Salim Ismail – serial entrepreneur, angel investor, author, speaker and technology strategist – coined the term Exponential Organization in his eponymous book.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 3, 2019

With any type of 5G connection, we will see faster network speeds, but the biggest changes will occur when operators have deployed high-frequency millimeter wave technology to exploit radio wavelengths that have been unusable in the past. The newer – and better – technologies behind 5G are using high-frequency spectrum.

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Wazoku

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It’s perhaps safe to say, therefore, that they’ve mastered the art of innovating to derive a competitive advantage. They undoubtedly have some incredibly smart people that have produced some incredibly smart technologies, but what sets them apart is their desire to innovate 24/7.

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Keeping up—with technology, with the competition, with anything in business or life—is what some would call a fool’s game. Asking these questions enables you to go beyond your competition and get off the treadmill of keeping up. These are trends in technology and innovation that show no signs of slowing down.

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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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ITONICS

MAY 4, 2017

If you constantly feed that funnel, you will never be out of new products and services and you will always be ahead of competition. Trends, Technologies and. by STEEP, STEER or PEST for Political, Economic, Social and Technological analysis), sorted within a certain hierarchy (e.g. This understanding comes from. Inspirations.

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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. Amazon is everywhere, and innovation is why.

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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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Planview

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

is an internationally recognized high-tech executive with decades of experience in corporate general management, governance, strategy, technology, and operations. Just a few years ago, AI was a buzzword – an interesting technology on the back burner of IT departments. How will you leverage generative AI as a competitive advantage?

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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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