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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. I encourage you to get it and embrace these strategies, whether you’re running a startup or in a big company. Your subtitle refers to “lean” principles; I’m assuming they respond to these restraining forces?

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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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Let Your Brain Take the Road Less Traveled

The Human Factor

Over time, it developed strategies for operating more efficiently, and one of those strategies involves traveling well-worn pathways to conserve energy use. This strategy worked well when the world moved slower and we didn’t have to consider constant change with our customers, products and employees with almost every decision.

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Choosing Conscious Leadership: Our 2021 Impact Report

Econic

Much like our consulting practices, we leaned into a loose framework to build a customized approach to transformation. When we put people first, we exponentially expand what’s possible in the areas of innovation, transformation, and strategy work. View the full report. This post was edited by Brittany Bach.

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The Power of a Good Strategy

Leanstack

The answer: Facebook won on strategy  — not on an original founding vision or an inherent unfair advantage. What is Strategy? Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. In 1998, Henry Mintzberg proposed five ways of thinking about strategy: 1. as a plan, 2. as a pattern, 3. as a ploy.

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The Gremlin Strategy, or How to Ward Off Disruption

Matthew May

After reading his 1999 book High Velocity Leadership , we invited Brian to guest speak about the Mars Pathfinder project, and he soon he became a regular fixture in the University of Toyota’s “lean” leadership curriculum. One of my all-time favorite stories is the one he told about the Pathfinder team’s approach to a “don’t fail” strategy.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

Another example is the recently introduced strategy framework by Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha from BCG. Here, dedicated strategies and innovation approaches are defined for different business environments, characterized by the factors predictability, malleability and harshness (see figure below).