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Lateral Thinking in Business Strategy

Destination Innovation

How can you differenitate your business from the competition? Let’s look at some examples of lateral thinking in business strategy and innovation. This clever move diversified their platform and added a new dimension to the travel industry. Nintendo Wii’s Motion Controls : What radical feature can we add?

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The Travel & Hospitality Industry is Being Disrupted, Again.

Leapfrogging

Now big travel and hospitality companies are going after the next disruptive innovation themselves before getting blindsided yet again. It’s no wonder Plug and Play created a vertical focused on travel and hospitality. The “travel-tech” sector has attracted over $19B+ since 2008. Airbnb disrupted hotels.

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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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What are your innovation ambitions for next year?

Idea to Value

leadership doesn’t know if they are falling behind their competition. For a limited time, I am offering you a free strategy video call , where we can talk face-to-face (virtually), I can find out more about you and we find solutions to how best you improve the creativity and innovation capabilities of your people.

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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Making strategy behind closed doors is a prescription for failure when disruptions are coming from all directions. Formulating and executing a sound organizational strategy is complex. Strategy is often made by elite teams and can thus be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces.

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How To Drive and Sustain Innovation With Learning and Development Training

IdeaScale

Recent research suggests that some key learning and development (L&D) strategies hold the answers you’ve been searching for. Having a well-strategized innovation strategy is the key to maintaining your company’s competitive advantage. requires having first established an effective innovation strategy within your office.

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Hindsight from 2020: Strategies for the New Normal

Daniel Burrus

These days, you can find a slurry of memes and motivational graphics on social media alluding to the concept that you must always beat out your competition in business. Seek Advantage Instead of Competition. Contrary to competing, a better strategy is to seek advantage. Take the Road Less Traveled.