Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

credit InnoLead and KPMG I have always welcomed the KPMG LLP-sponsored InnoLead benchmarking report; this is for the third year. I received a note from Scott Kirsner , who leads the team at Innolead, and he offered me a chance to read the report before its official release today at 12 PM ET time and suggested I can post anytime, so here goes.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 6, 2017

Environmental, social and governance strategy (ESG) refers to the three central factors in measuring the sustainability and ethical impact of an investment in a company or business. In exchange, I will send a copy of Thomas Friedman’s new book , “ Thank You for Being Late ” to the first five people who respond. trillion in U.S.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

Someone wondered about the range of topics included in the disruptive innovation strategy workshop we delivered recently. We led the group through a customized Brainzooming Innovation Fake Book of exercises. And we made sure that every table reporting out received tokens as prizes. 27 Links to Energize Your Innovation Strategy.

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CMOE

MAY 22, 2019

Do you coach your direct reports? One of the simplest methods for learning or teaching better coaching is reading books on performance coaching that are written by performance coaches and mentoring experts and express timeless principles. We have compiled a list of twelve of our favorite performance-coaching books below.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence offered an internal branding strategy take on the United Airlines woes, offering strategic thinking questions you can ask and answer to improve your brand’s resiliency and avoid brand crises. 3 Ways Your Internal Branding Strategy Can Be Smarter than United Airlines.

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Boxes and Arrows

MAY 1, 2018

Editors’ note: This “Book in Brief” feature here on Boxes and Arrows is from. We’ll publish an excerpt, up to 500 words, of your book. The catch is that we’ll only publicize one book a month; first come, first serve. These likely have been packaged in maps, models, research reports, or other artifacts. A common DNA.

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mjvinnovation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined the term in his book The Great Good Place (1989). Starbucks has now incorporated this philosophy into its retail design and business strategy. In the early 1990s, Starbucks relied heavily on Oldenburg’s third-place philosophy for its customer experience strategy.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 18, 2020

Yet even today, nearly a half century later, many executives and business strategists have failed to learn that simple lesson by attempting to inject “science” into strategy. The truth is that while strategy can be informed by science, it can never be, and shouldn’t be, truly scientific. Why Business Case Studies Are Flawed.

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Business and Tech

AUGUST 9, 2021

If you’re considering making your customers’ experience more connected with an omnichannel strategy , accepting different types of payments is a good place to start. Eighty-four percent of online retailers already sell on social media channels or plan to this year, according to data from our Future of Retail report.

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HYPE Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2017

Let’s see here: absorptive capacity , superbosses , leadership paradoxes , coping strategies , ecosystems , new school crowdsourcing , lessons from “Grit” , Henry Chesbrough’s work. Oh, and I’ve done some research of my own too, which I’ll be happy to share in a report later on.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Often innovation governance gets caught up in the (life-threatening) aspects of governance’s need to have reporting, metrics, reporting and accountability dominating. It provides good reporting that conveys innovations importance and impact. It is a place that reflects, defends and pushes the innovation activity.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

For insights on orchestrating successful offsites, consider exploring leading executive team offsites for business strategy , which delves into best practices and effective leadership approaches. Strategic planning offsites are a significant investment in your leadership team’s development and your company’s future.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 14, 2015

While many companies scramble to create disruptive innovation strategies, the problem is that it isn’t a linear process or methodology. No single strategy or theory (even the theory of disruptive innovation itself) has captured how it really works or how to do it. Was it part of their strategy? Fast forward to today.

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mjvinnovation

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The struggle to create strategies that combine innovation and sustainability is an effort that must be embraced. Read on to discover our tips for creating innovative strategies focused on sustainability! The amount of attention that a company gives to sustainable strategies is evidence of the CEO’s vision of the future.

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Innovation 360 Group

OCTOBER 29, 2017

The uber-quoted and widely disseminated statement by Peter Drucker that “Culture eats strategy for breakfast,” which, by the way, was never said by Drucker , clearly shows how a culture of opportunism and common wisdom create simplified truth hindering the success of innovation management. Strategies That Cross The 3 Horizons.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Just take a look at the recent report I compiled on digital transformation. This is a meta report I have written and was released this last week, on the recent developments in digital transformation. The intention of this report is to provide data for orientation for people dealing with this difficult topic.

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Cris Beswick

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Hopefully, at least some of the executive team are there, helping to set strategy and vision and sponsor innovation-led transformation. The idea of setting people deliverers at the heart of the business strategy is not a new one. It’s an attitude that echoes in a 2017 Institute of Employment Studies report. [7]

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 30, 2022

Professor Jeanne Liedtka (author of Designing for Growth among other excellent books on design thinking) is one of the most respected researchers, teachers and practitioners of design thinking out there. After you finish, you instantly receive your report. The report provides the usual results for each measure.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

According to a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report , the number of Americans quitting their jobs reached record highs in November 2021, when more than 4.5 What models and strategies are implemented in your company to safeguard employee safety and health? What are your strategies to lower burnout and employee stress?

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Leanstack

JUNE 9, 2015

The answer: Facebook won on strategy  — not on an original founding vision or an inherent unfair advantage. What is Strategy? Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. In 1998, Henry Mintzberg proposed five ways of thinking about strategy: 1. as a plan, 2. as a pattern, 3. as a ploy.

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Michael Michalko

MAY 14, 2022

Some of Michael=s creative-thinking techniques that were refined by his government and corporate practice were published in his best-seller Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity) , which the Wall Street Journal reported “will change the way you think.”

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 15, 2020

So, here I was thinking about some strategies that I can employ to be present in the moment and the blog post pops up in my feed. We need to think about the future (meeting with your boss or customer, a difficult conversation with your wife or son or daughter, etc) in order to be prepared with strategy and information to deal with this.

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Christensen Institute

AUGUST 29, 2023

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. Second, leaders must identify the strategy they will employ to deliver on the job(s). I wrote more about that approach here.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 1, 2017

It’s a great question because career advancement is known to be an excellent motivator and yet despite the evidence , our recent report showed that only 8% of our customers included “career growth” as one of their explicit incentive offerings. Here’s why: your incentive strategy should be driven by your crowdsourcing objectives.

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Stephen Shapiro

AUGUST 29, 2022

I previously started posting the 40 strategies from my Best Practices are Stupid book. As you read this and the other chapters, please remember that this book was published back in 2011. Although a workable solution may have been found using this strategy, it is unclear if that was the case.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Thinkers360 Leaderboards: 175 Women B2B Thought Leaders You Should Follow in 2023 , The Year’s Most Popular Books from Thinkers360 Thought Leaders (1H’22) Thought Leader Interview Thinkers360 thought leader interviews profile prominent members of the Thinkers360 community who embody the power of ideas in their work. Gena holds a Ph.D.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

As Steve Blank puts it in his foreword to O’Reilly and Tushman’s latest book on the subject: Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma: Exploitation pays your salary while exploration pays your pension. No overall innovation strategy or portfolio. Multiple different innovation strategies.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Additionally, she has authored books on Digital Health available on Amazon. Readers & Writers: To contribute your own content and to browse amazing content – including articles/blogs, books, podcasts and videos, from our opt-in B2B thought leader, analyst and influencer community – Join Thinkers360 today !

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

MARCH 22, 2024

Thinkers360 In-Depth Profile & Portfolio: Maribel Lopez Social Media: LinkedIn | X Book: Right-Time Experiences: Driving Revenue with Mobile and Big Data. Maribel is the author of the John Wiley & Sons book called Right-time Experience and she is the host of the AI with Maribel Lopez podcast. Highlighted Content : 33.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

APRIL 18, 2024

At a Glance Aruna Ravichandran SVP & Chief Marketing and Customer Officer for Webex, Cisco Focus Areas : Marketing, Cloud, DevOps, IT Operations Thinkers360 In-Depth Profile & Portfolio: Aruna Ravichandran Social Media: LinkedIn | X Books: DevOps for Digital Leaders , The Kitty Hawk Venture.

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Planview

MARCH 20, 2023

Five years ago, Planview CTA Mik Kersten outlined the “turning point” in his bestselling book, Project to Product: How to Thrive and Survive in the Age of Software with the Flow Framework. But despite its importance, only 12% of respondents report using a continuous, flexible funding model.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 15, 2018

Imaginatik’s take: Uber is well-known for disrupting the taxi business, and more recently for reports of bad corporate behavior. This type of “ecosystem thinking” is smart innovation strategy that corporates would do well to emulate. Much of their investment has gone into digitization to keep pace – improved online booking, etc.

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Michael Michalko

MAY 23, 2022

That is, why are the letters of a book backward but not upside down, and why would Feynman’s double behind the mirror appear to have a mole on the wrong hand? MICHAEL MICHALKO is the author of Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity) , which the Wall Street Journal reported “will change the way you think.”

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

AUGUST 18, 2023

He is featured in Thinkers360’s annual Leaderboards Top Podcasts from Thinkers360 Thought Leaders (1H’23) , The Year’s Most Popular Books from Thinkers360 Thought Leaders (1H’23) , and The Year’s Most Popular Articles from Thinkers360 Thought Leaders (1H’23) , among others.

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CMOE

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The Extraordinary Business Book Club. Book recommendations for leaders. The Host: Kim Scott, the author of the book Radical Candor , with Russ Laraway, co-founder of Candor, Inc. Best Episodes: The first episode , in which Kim and Russ explain the key points and practical steps from the book. HBR IdeaCast. Manager Tools.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

MARCH 8, 2024

Her book, The Knowledge Management Memory Jogger, was published in February 2023. Readers & Writers: To contribute your own content and to browse amazing content – including articles/blogs, books, interviews, podcasts and videos, from our opt-in B2B thought leader, analyst and influencer community – Join Thinkers360 today !

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

OCTOBER 9, 2022

At a Glance Thought Leader and Influencer Interview with James Kerr, Principal, Indispensable Consulting Focus Areas: Culture, Leadership, Business Strategy, Future of Work. Good Enough Is Not Good Enough! Further, he is a contributing columnist at Inc. and Management Issues, writing on leadership and business transformation.

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