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First-Mover or Fast-Follower: Which is the right innovation strategy for you?

Idea to Value

In comparison, of the companies which were fast followers in those categories (and which entered on average 13 years after the pioneers), only 8% failed. And competition has its advantages. After all, when someone copies what you have in the market, they are copying the artifact of your past effort.

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How to Influence People and Drive Change

Leapfrogging

What can you learn about change from Baker’s Four Strategies of Influence? This style of persuasion is effective in competitive sales environments or environments in which people are open to debate and collaboration. Check out upBOARD’s Strategies of Online Influence template in the cloud. By UpBOARD. Still want to learn more?

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The 3 Biggest Lessons from Our Financial Services Panel

KindlingApp

While the speakers on this panel were all leaders and experts in financial services, many of the themes and strategies they discussed are applicable to people involved in innovation in any market. Expand Perception of Competition. Embrace “Coopertition”. The panelists all seemed to think there’s still hope.

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The only two measures that matter

David Marks

Chief among these are the Blue Ocean strategy, Business Model Generation and Lean Startup methodologies that deservedly attracted many followers. In this blog post I’ll explain how it can be applied to explaining the competitive position of companies. Apple by comparison stayed a niche player. But those are the lucky few.

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The only two measures that matter

David Marks

Chief among these are the Blue Ocean strategy, Business Model Generation and Lean Startup methodologies that deservedly attracted many followers. In this blog post I’ll explain how it can be applied to explaining the competitive position of companies. Apple by comparison stayed a niche player. But those are the lucky few.