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Strategic Thinking Exercise – 17 Questions to Find Innovation Case Studies

BrainZooming

While that might be a comforting perspective if you’re fond of business isolationism, it’s rarely true once you start to explore the business strategically. We were working recently with a company that, based on its competitive and business situation, could certainly lay some claim to having a unique business situation.

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Eliminating innovation unknowns - definitions

Jeffrey Phillips

Perhaps one of the simplest, and yet most important unknown to address is a definition of innovation. We at OVO often demand that our clients develop a consistent definition of innovation that can be communicated to teams within the organization. You can see those different definitions by clicking here.

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The lost innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

” Innovation fits with a designer’s definition of design: the ability to move from the existing to the preferred. Instead of efficiency, we strive for originality, for what will change the game. There must first be an intimate connection between strategic thinking and innovation. The Innovation Pathway.

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Agility is the 2023 Success Factor

Leapfrogging

The definition of agility isn’t just about being adaptable. Agility is the ability to think and understand quickly, so you can move faster and easier. Strategic thinking. Agility may ultimately be your only source of sustainable competitive advantage. It’s a mindset. Flexibility is a key success factor.

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Competitive Strategy – 7 Ways to Avoid “Never and Always”

BrainZooming

They reported the team’s defensive coordinator, Bob Sutton, told them that when planning competitive strategy , “I want to stay out of ‘never’ and ‘always.’”. What fantastic competitive strategy advice to incorporate this time of year as you implement new strategies. Who Sees Predictable Competitive Strategy Moves?

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Where speed, innovation, technology and strategy collide

Jeffrey Phillips

Old trading patterns and rules of engagement may be re-evaluated or may change entirely. We aren't quite certain yet how IoT, Blockchain, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, robotics and other technologies will change things. The pace of change - a common refrain in my writing - seems to only accelerate.

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The Essential Connection Between Strategy and Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Often we are inherently resisting to exploring change as it becomes risky and far more demanding. One of the basic troubles increasingly today is we are not in the world of stable markets, we are seeing increasing competitive intensity and challenges to market definitions that are radically altering how we proceed.

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