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Unleash Your Teams Strategic Potential: 10 Ways to Craft the Best Business Strategies

Leapfrogging

Introduction to Strategic Thinking in Business The Importance of Strategy in a Disruptive World In today’s business environment, disruption is the new norm. A well-crafted strategy can serve as a compass, guiding your organization through the complexities of a disruptive world and towards sustained success.

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Thinking about innovation and strategy

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been asked several times lately to write about, or perhaps more specifically, to opine about, innovation strategy. If you are a somewhat regular reader of this blog or my work generally, you may know that I think talking about innovation strategy conflates two very important ideas that are related but not the same thing.

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The Hard Questions to Ask When Planning Your Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Many managers view strategy as a complex subject, but at its essence it boils down to three questions: Where are we now? To successfully use these questions to chart a course, people must be brutally honest with themselves about where they are now. Where do we want to go? What is a credible path to get there?

Strategy 143
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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

I encourage you to get it and embrace these strategies, whether you’re running a startup or in a big company. Competition aside, both face opposing physical forces that must be overcome to win. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput.

Strategy 130
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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Is Your Innovation Problem Really a Strategy Problem?

Tim Kastelle

This dangerous obstacle to innovation is described by Nilofer Merchant in The New How as “the empty void in an organization between the high-level strategy conjured up in the stratosphere and the realization of that vision down on the ground.”. But because the industry’s margins are so low, this strategy carries real risk.

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How Do Your Incorporate Integrity In Your Innovation Strategy?

IdeaScale

In order to maintain integrity as part of your innovation process, you should look closely at the spoken and unspoken promises made by your innovation strategy and act on them to the fullest extent possible. All of this is a two-way street, of course. All brick-and-mortar retail has faced challenges from eCommerce, of course.

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