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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.’”. Here’s the big strategic thinking question: Who can best shed light on when your brand is defaulting to “never and always” in your competitive strategy?

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3 Ways to Stay Ahead of Disruptive Brands Screwing Up Your Customer Expectations

BrainZooming

To the extent that they have meaningful comparisons in other industries , search out the highest-performing providers outside your market. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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Ecosystems need re-stating for business. Are they real ecosystems?

Ecosystems4Innovating

I wanted to look at this and make some observations and comparisons. It is so often just promising growth by liberally applying this, and not recognizing this requires fundamental changes in business design, resources and strategic thinking.

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Capabilities and Leadership Close the Skills Gap in Manufacturing

Innovation 360 Group

But how do you hire for creativity, innovation and strategic thinking, and create the right culture to support and develop it? Figure 2 illustrates a comparison on 10 illustrative innovation capabilities between top quartile manufacturers and average companies. Figure 1: Innovation tops the list (Source: World Economic Forum).

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Building the UX Dreamteam - Part 2

Boxes and Arrows

Your luminary leader provides ‘air cover’, also known as ‘running interference’ Making space for their reports to work by fending off interfering people or tasks, the manager ensures the Dreamteam is focused, not randomized.