CorporateIntel

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

What could you be doing to course correct that might give Musk reason to pay attention? While I probably can’t put a dent in Musk’s corrective arc (which I want to believe is on the horizon), perhaps I can open the eyes of a few mere mortals to the underlying tension of his story.

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CorporateIntel

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Andy Grove calls it the Strategic Inflection Point , the change in market forces that happens and you miss it, and then it’s too late to course correct. Of course we will. Then a hairline fracture becomes a crack, and the crack ripples outward like a spider web, and then the ceramic whole flies apart.

Innovation 40

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CorporateIntel

AUGUST 2, 2016

Of course since we are talking the immensely flawed Kimo Balthazer, we are talking a dysfunctional romance. How about that; old-fashioned serialized radio drama, all new for the digital age? Perhaps it’s even hard to call it that. War of the broken-hearted might be closer.

System 46

System Change Creativity Innovation 46

CorporateIntel

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Of course not! As a team grows, the voices on that team expand, none more important than the voice of the customer. Does that mean a powerful vision should be diluted into compromise so everyone’s voice is incorporated? I have written about that many times before, secure in my belief that product development is not democratic.

Roadmap 40

Roadmap Innovation Product Development Course 40

CorporateIntel

DECEMBER 30, 2012

They may appear to be separate areas of study, but our connected world of internet communication, social media, dramatic global speed, and authority transfer to communities has put words and mathematics on a collision course of unified discipline. The lesson here is hardly isolated to politics , it is a story of marketing at large.

Data 40

Data Strategy Strategy Marketing 40

CorporateIntel

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

And of course we occasionally have runaway hits that are off the charts. We have ranked as high as #243 in Quantcast. We average about 3 million page views per week, with more than half our stories getting over 5000 views and our best stories over 100,000 views. We have over 60,000 Facebook fans and over 100,000 Twitter followers.

Project 40

Project Innovation Leadership Creativity 40

CorporateIntel

JANUARY 30, 2013

” Of course he was kidding, but just saying those words aloud every morning to our trusted heroes on the front lines reminded them how important they were to our success, or how much pain they could cause if they forgot what they were there to do—help keep our customers our customers.

Creativity 40

Creativity Training Company Innovation 40

CorporateIntel

JUNE 8, 2015

Here I am considering what I would call three-buy and above purchases for personal use, which of course live alongside AM & FM radio broadcast, satellite play, streaming services like Pandora and Spotify, and any number of less legitimate ways to file-share.

Innovation 40

Innovation Technology Creativity Course 40

CorporateIntel

JULY 8, 2013

Creative destruction, you say, the natural course of things business? If companies have it so right, why are brands evaporating from the landscape in record time? Why are fully capitalized companies lasting half as long as the average human lifespan? Well, sure, I’ll give you that.

Leadership 40

Leadership Innovation Management Company 40

CorporateIntel

APRIL 1, 2012

The most critical constant of which I am aware in delivering great products to market consistently is for Quality to be owned by everyone involved in innovation—from designers to developers to marketers to feedback from end-users.

Software 40

Software Product Development Innovation Analysis 40

CorporateIntel

MAY 15, 2014

Of course you’re going to say, Well, in automobiles and rockets, people do die. If you don’t get a boss who inserts that chip into the back of your spinal cord, study Elon Musk. You can’t cut corners on quality with the work he tackles, or people die.

Innovation 40

Innovation Study Disruption Resources 40

CorporateIntel

OCTOBER 5, 2012

These candidates still have time to course correct or double down on their strides, and in the same way, an account is seldom awarded after an early high stakes encounter. To internalize the impact of your efforts and incorporate that into a subsequent approach is to know you participated in the event rather than performed.

Innovation 40

Innovation Analysis Creativity Competition 40

CorporateIntel

MARCH 18, 2015

Sure, of course,” said Paul. Below is an excerpt to give a sense of where this tale wants to take you. See you on the winning side of the balance beam. ? ? ?. “Do Do you like music?” asked Daphne. Contemporary bands, classic rock, pop tunes from various times?”. Who doesn’t have a favorite band or two?”. You mean like the Eagles?

Change 40

Change Innovation eBook Video 40

CorporateIntel

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

I also remember a few brainstorms we had after we realized what a unique product we had developed, one for a CD-ROM version with recorded spoken dialogue that of course never happened, and one for a Wings sequel that would have been set in WWII, and who knows where that would have taken us.

Brainstorming 40

Brainstorming Software Innovation System 40

CorporateIntel

MAY 20, 2012

All the web surfer experiences is they don’t have to create another user name and password, but if they want to do that, they still have the option (this is of course a two-edged sword, noted below under privacy).

Innovation 40

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