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How Benchmarking Against Market Leaders Can Drive Business Success

Leapfrogging

Even worse, your business may end up being disrupted by the next big innovation that comes on the market. They measure what is working within the organization, and more importantly what isn’t, in order to gauge what needs to change. So what do you do when you want to find out how your business is doing?

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Breaking Taboos – Two Lessons for Innovators

Destination Innovation

From this insight Kimberly-Clark went on to develop and market Kleenex tissues. Based on this intelligence, the company developed and marketed a new product, Kotex, as the first commercial sanitary towel. They advertised in women’s magazines such as Good Housekeeping with the slogan ‘Kotex – Ask for it by Name.’

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The law of diffusion of innovation

Idea to Value

Any company planning on bringing a new innovative solution to market must accept the fact that not every customer will be willing to buy it immediately. Diffusion is the process by which a new innovation or product is communicated over time amongst the participants in a social system or market. of the total market.

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How to Use the Innovation Matrix Template to Create New Products or Services for Your Business

Leapfrogging

Innovation, and coming up with new products and services for your business to stand out in the market is one of the most important things you can do to ensure its success. . . In order to develop the right strategy you need to take a look at your company’s Competence and Commitment to bringing innovations to market.

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Time for Innovation 2.0

Jeffrey Phillips

The work I get to do, and the material I see online and read in (yes, I still read paper magazines) has provided a lot of fodder for this blog over the years. This is yet another thing about innovation that needs to change. I'm no Luther, no deep thinker or scholar, but I can tell that corporations need change.

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Where do You Stand on the Road to Innovation? Use the Innovation Matrix to Help Drive Your Next Innovation Initiative

Leapfrogging

For most organizations struggling to innovate for their customers and in their markets, chances are there is a lack of genuine self-understanding and assessment around what’s getting in the way and why. Organizations can use this tool to determine what category they fall into and what changes need to be made so they get more innovation. .

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5 Innovation Lessons from the Backstory of OpenTable.com

Leapfrogging

He eventually honed the scope and changed the name to OpenTable. We want to be the OpenTable of X” (with X referring to a market outside of dining) became a familiar phrase in Silicon Valley following the company’s market success, and remains so today. Find a Good Name But Recognize It May Change.