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Jack Welch’s GE Was The Wrong Model To Take From The 90s. Lou Gerstner’s IBM Is The Right One

Digital Tonto

When Jack Welch was named “Manager of the Century” by Fortune magazine in 1999, it was still unclear what his legacy was going to be. He made it possible for the nearly century-old firm to become a pioneer in open-source development, artificial intelligence and genomics. Welch increased profits largely by “financializing” the firm.

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Don’t Lose Your Best People. Use the 9-Box Grid to Grow Your Future Talent.

Leapfrogging

Keep and develop your best people to create a high-performance culture and competitive advantage. In today’s disruptive world, competitive advantage relies as much on people as it does technology. Magazine column. Will likely become part of the future leadership team. Hiring good people is tough.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

ScaleUps, and those that invest in them, face the next-level challenge of growing revenue at scale; that is, exponentially relative to expenditures in capital, people, and technology. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput. They are real.

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Digital Innovation Units: Setting-Up for Scaling-Up

Integrative Innovation

The labs find it particularly difficult to develop innovations that are distant from the core business. To ensure the required integration and avoid not invented here rejection, core-compatible innovation is generally better owned and driven by the relevant business units or technology departments (R&D, IT) in the core business.

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Accelerate Innovation — With Experiential Learning

Gregg Fraley

Magazine by Jessica Stillman. A teacher figures out where a student is, their “zone of proximal development” The teacher then scaffolds the students thinking, using various tools, to make new connections and learn. Why Innovation Sessions Have a Bad Reputation. The article I reference is in Inc. Get in touch!

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Product Hunt Columbus Recap – Grypmat, Yubi Beauty, and Shuffle!

Taivara

On November 15th, TIME Magazine released their list of the 50 Best Inventions of 2018. Helping companies compete in a rapidly changing digital world through everything from Software Design & Development, New Product Strategy, and Corporate Innovation. At Taivara, we help companies of all sizes build innovative technology.

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Business Model Scalability: Internal vs External

The BMI Lab Blog

4 Strategies to Improve Your Internal Scalability Leverage External Resources The most scalable models to date are digital platforms that leverage external resources e.g. cars and drivers (Uber), engineers and product designers (Local Motors), or software developers and phone manufacturers (Android). They will most likely answer “the team.”