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Your competition is not who you think it is

Idea to Value

Most companies don’t know who their biggest competitor is. When asked, they might list another company providing the same goods or services. But in most cases, this is not a company’s real competition. But in most cases, this is not a company’s real competition.

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It’s Time To Upgrade Your Innovation Management System

Innov8rs

Companies were optimistic, innovation budgets grew, and there was an increased appetite for out-of-the-box innovation. It's fair to say the future of our companies depend on our innovation function to deliver results. Their systems work effectively and efficiently, but they are also agile enough to seize short-term opportunities.

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Thursday Theory Tips- Disruption, a theory of competition

Christensen Institute

Disruption, a theory of competition Recently, one of my colleagues framed disruption in a way that truly helped me better understand the theory. She called it a theory of competition. Note, that this is only the case in a competition of disruptive circumstances not in sustaining ones. Back to leveraging disruption theory to win.

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How Competitive Benchmarking Misses the Mark – And What Anticipatory Leaders do Instead

Daniel Burrus

Why does this happen, and how can you as a leader resist the urge to benchmark against the competition? I have five tips that can put a stop to counterproductive professional benchmarking, but first, understand this: The competition isn’t really competition, as we are all on the same team in one way or another.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Monitoring Emerging Technologies to Maintain Competitive Advantage

ITONICS

Companies need a system to monitor and analyze such drivers of change constantly. To stay ahead in innovation, think of yourself as a detective, keeping a close eye on disruptive trends and new technologies. You want to make informed decisions about what technologies pose a risk to your business, and which present opportunities.

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Who is minding the change and culture store?

Jeffrey Phillips

Otherwise, you are creating strategy that ignores exceptionally powerful forces that are creating change and shifting the competitive markets in real time. Everyone in your company's leadership team is concerned about change. Of course, even then, companies were slow to react. Who focuses on change capacity?

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How to Transform Your Supply Chain: Digitization for Decision-Making

Speaker: Hannah Testani, CEO of Intelligent Audit

Today’s supply chain environment requires a company to obtain a competitive advantage by improving its entire supply chain process end-to-end. It’s common to run into data overload throughout this process, leading to disparate systems, information silos, and the inability to navigate external challenges.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.