Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

For more on reshaping the executive approach, refer to our article on executive mindset transformation. Build a resilient organization that can withstand market fluctuations and competitive pressures. Additionally, to understand how to nurture this skill set among your leadership team, explore developing strategic mindset in leaders.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. It’s an opportunity for you and your executive team to step back, assess the business landscape, and align on the vision and direction of the company.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By facilitating strategic planning offsites, executives can harness the collective expertise of their team to forge a path toward sustained success. Benefits of Facilitating Strategic Planning Offsites Facilitating strategic planning offsites offers a multitude of benefits, from enhancing team cohesion to driving organizational alignment.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Where startups search for product/market fit and consistency in customer retention, ScaleUps search for scalable product/ market fit, or go-to-market fit. Of course, not all friction is bad.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Executive mindset transformation refers to the process in which senior executives and leaders alter their thought patterns, approaches, and attitudes towards business challenges and opportunities. It’s about seeing the bigger picture and aligning your team with the core objectives and values of the company.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Executive mindset transformation refers to the process in which senior executives and leaders alter their thought patterns, approaches, and attitudes towards business challenges and opportunities. It’s about seeing the bigger picture and aligning your team with the core objectives and values of the company.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Co-creation refers to the phenomena of two entities working together to overcome a challenge or an issue. For example, rather than saying your aim is to deliver nutritious food to the poor, you can say that the goal is to increase distribution of nutrients to a population with a particular income by 100% in the next 2 years.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

They can more effectively respond to market dynamics, experiment with new ideas, and integrate diverse perspectives and inputs into the innovation process. It empowers organizations to build and optimize their capabilities in a way that aligns with their specific goals and changing market dynamics.

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CMOE

MAY 4, 2023

Project managers face a range of challenges in their day-to-day life including poor project planning, lack of communication, and lack of accountability. A project manager should be able to effectively communicate with teams, clients, and other stakeholders involved in the project.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 22, 2016

Market research often falls short when it comes to innovation. Here’s why: Modern market research methods, like Lean Startup, do a great job of focusing on customer-centric discovery. In lean startup, before beginning to test solution ideas, one focuses on developing empathy through customer development interviews.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 14, 2023

Through this process, senior management can lead innovation, implement strategy, and empower their teams to create new sources of growth. At the same time, decisions made in the absence of fact-based evidence can result in poor outcomes. These are just a few examples of what poor decisions can lead to. it didn't sell.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

I spent 8 years as a management consultant, and a number of my projects were referred to as “Strategy Consulting” Here, we would be asked to make predictions for a specific topic, such as the likely growth rates for an industry segment based on trends. Market Sophistication. The problem with extrapolating data.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Innovation theatre refers to any innovation work which is done to show people that innovation is happening, but which doesn’t result in a tangible outcome. In some cases though, they are very aware of it, and consider the activity good for marketing and branding, even if they know it will not produce any results.

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KindlingApp

OCTOBER 19, 2015

A major challenge I regularly face in marketing Kindling is explaining the seemingly simple concept of "ideas" as they feature in idea management. For an illustration of the versatility idea management techniques can offer to even a small team, I polled around the Kindling office to see how our teams use Kindling internally.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Still I came away with a 50% achievement mark which was not so bad on the overall innovation intent I had set myself but one area was very frustrating to move forward upon- the subject of risk and how it is treated in innovation management. Blood pressure pills came in handy here also. As a result, promising ideas are often smothered.

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whataventure

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The bad news is that an idea is the starting point. The major quality of ideas in an early phase is not a business case that shows millions based on assumptions but a strong team that is ready to iterate and adapt their idea until they are able to propose an exciting value proposition to customers. Intrapreneurship is about teams.

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The Human Factor

MARCH 13, 2020

A successful recruiting strategy should involve your entire team and be should be developed carefully to help you attract the best talent, through great employee incentives , on-boarding good hiring practices. The easiest way to do this is by turning every employee into a recruiter by encouraging them to refer candidates.

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Qmarkets

MAY 18, 2021

For example, in the animal kingdom, diversity or biodiversity, referring to the enormous variety of life on earth, is integral to human survival. Decisions are often made in head offices by corporate teams rather than front line employees. Yet, it must be understood that everyone is creatively different.

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The BMI Lab Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Let’s take a look at how the British cycling team went from zero Tour de France victories and ninety-five years without any Olympic medal by 2003 to sixty-six Olympic or Paralympic gold medals and five Tour de France victories between 2007 and 2017 (Clear, 2018).

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IdeaSpies

JULY 21, 2019

This step between a breakthrough and a working prototype is often referred to as the ‘valley of death’ for innovation. Take Bell Labs, for example, an industrial research and development (R&D) company, now owned by Nokia but originally founded by Alexander Graham Bell in the late-1800s.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. This disconnect leads organizations down the wrong path toward producing products and services that no one really wants , because they aren’t using evidence (data + insights) to guide their product development.

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Daniel Burrus

JULY 17, 2019

This is what I refer to as “legacy thinking.” As you probably know, legacy technology refers to old forms of technology that are simply no longer optimal. Like legacy technology, legacy thinking refers to thinking, strategies and other actions that are outdated and no longer serve you to the extent that they once had.

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The Human Factor

AUGUST 19, 2021

Strategy implementation refers to turning plans and ideas into actionable techniques that will help you achieve your goals. This should be the case regardless of the external conditions such as market fluctuations or changes to your business. To successfully implement strategic changes, your team must understand the company’s vision.

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The BMI Lab Blog

JANUARY 24, 2019

Ten years ago, "old business" dominated the ranking of the most valuable companies in terms of market capitalization with PetroChina on the top, followed by Exxon and General Electric. customers, market and regulations). But developing a virtuous cycle of growth is not only relevant for digital platforms.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The integration of AI technologies has led to the emergence of new business models and has disrupted established market dynamics. This impact is evident across various facets of business, from operational efficiency and customer experience to product development and market analysis.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Here’s why adaptation is crucial: Sustained Relevance: Staying in tune with market changes ensures that your business remains relevant to your customers’ evolving needs. Competitive Advantage: By embracing innovation, you can differentiate your business from competitors and potentially capture a larger market share.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Previous research shows that 81% of a globally representative selection of sustainability-driven companies outperformed their counterparts in 2020, despite a market downturn. According to Sebastian, corporate venture builders can use the United Nations SDGs (or Sustainable Development Goals) to provide a good framework in this sense.

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Qmarkets

MAY 18, 2021

For example, in the animal kingdom, diversity or biodiversity, referring to the enormous variety of life on earth, is integral to human survival. Decisions are often made in head offices by corporate teams rather than front line employees. Yet, it must be understood that everyone is creatively different.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The Lean Startup Methodology has had an enormous effect on the business world - some have even referred to it as a cult (which is not 100% far from the truth). At this year’s event, there was a strong spotlight on ways to gather and utilize customer and market feedback. Click to Tweet. It’s not just about empathy, however.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

Would that be so bad? Do you even need formal titles and classes of employees, which divide more than unite teams? One reference case is Zappos, the US DTC platform that inspired the likes of Zalando. Create cross functional, autonomous teams, with end to end responsibility. These lines will be obsolete soon.

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Wazoku

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In a January 2015 post on Artificial Intelligence he references “what futurist Ray Kurzweil calls human history’s Law of Accelerating Returns”. My interest in helping established businesses to stay relevant and successful brought me into contact with Simon Hill and the team at Wazoku. What is coaching, if not an enabler to innovation?

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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2018

In psychology and economics, loss aversion refers to people’s tendency to prefer avoiding losses to acquiring equivalent gains. There is no way to ensure that customers are going to see the same value in what you are developing as you do, and most companies are terrible at actually being able to execute on an idea.

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Moves the Needle

JULY 31, 2018

If you answered yes, you know exactly the type of occurrence we are referring to. This is commonly referred to as Product-Market fit. The business understands the market and has developed a proven, scalable blueprint to winning the market. The entire business must transition to a growth driven organization.

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It is what will drive an enterprise’s creative engine that is the source of long-term, future growth Most of today’s large corporate enterprises treat strategy, R&D, and innovation as separate and distinct functions – worthy of specialized teams, segmented funding, reporting structures and operational charters. This is starting to change.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Interacting (Networking, meeting, team building). 3 Keys to Team Building Exercises that Create Impact. 11 Strategic Questions for Disruptive Innovation in Markets. Do You Have What It Takes for a Marketing Plan? 6 Types of Strategic Planning Process Activities. 5 Dangers of Cheaping out on Hiring a Facilitator.

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Yet2

OCTOBER 25, 2019

We don’t recommend you spend much time explaining your target market. But we’ve found that many of the large companies know relevant target markets well and typically have chosen to speak to you for a strategic reason. Be prepared to present and reference data that is publicly available. Show, don’t [just] tell.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

The digitization might be specific internal processes, tools, or operational components, or can refer to a complete revamp of a company’s products and services. But enterprise organizations have been known to exhibit “not built here” syndrome, meaning, they don’t trust solutions that weren’t developed in-house. The term is not new.

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