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You need a why and a how, not a what, for innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

However, there are still so many basic, fundamental things that companies either overlook or fail to realize that going back to the basics is important. We need a "what" So often I hear from companies that they need a new something. It can be a new product, a new process, a new way of working or thinking.

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4 Challenges Facing Embedded Services Organizations & How to Solve Them

Planview

In 2020, ESOs within SaaS companies and Management Consultancies represented the highest growth segment in the professional service marketplace. Below we outline four critical challenges that ESOs are facing, and how to solve them: ESOs Must Serve Two Masters: Profits & Product Adoption.

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You Can’t Fix Morale

CorporateIntel

Here’s a phone call I sometimes receive, usually from someone senior in executive management or the investment team behind a once promising company: Inquirer: Hey, we need your help with something. Inquirer: Are you saying we need to fix something else in our company so that maybe it can have an impact on morale?

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4 Simple Questions That Can Re-vitalise Growth for Your Cash Cow

Rmukesh Gupta

Go out to acquire a product that can provide the growth for the organisation. Unfortunately, most such acquisitions don’t pan out well for the acquiring companies. Start an innovation project with the intention of creating the next high growth product internally.

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3 New Year’s Resolutions Every IP Portfolio Manager Should Make for 2018

Anaqua

Importantly, larger organizations need to ensure that IP aligns with the business at the individual product/market level. For each product market, there should be a distinct product strategy. However, businesses generally confuse the plan with strategy. 2) Develop a disciplined plan.

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The Innovation Generation Has Arrived

Legacy Innovation Group

Once upon a time, in the heyday of the Industrial Age, a young marketing, design, or engineering student would graduate from college and go to work for a large corporation, slowly melding into the steady, rhythmic din of bureaucratically-managed, organizationally-structured execution work in product development.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas

BrainZooming

In my corporate days, I was dispatched to work with competitive companies our corporation purchased. Since all the companies competed with one another, each one needed to determine its own business strategies. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.