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Three Ways to Keep Your Innovation Program Ahead of the Pack
You’re already very good at what you do. If you weren’t, you wouldn’t be in the race. All you have to do is take your good performance and step it up a notch. Squeeze out just a little more speed.
Your Frenemy, Disruption
In a recent survey, we first asked thirty executives if they thought “leveraging disruption” was critical to the success of their organization. Twenty-nine of the thirty executives indicated that leveraging disruption was critical to their success. Not bad! At least they recognized the concept.
BlackBerry Innovates, Falls, and Then Re-Invents Itself
#innovationmandate Remember BlackBerry? In the first decade of this century, you either had a BlackBerry or you knew someone who did. Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, co-CEOs of the parent company RIM, guided the BlackBerry to the top of the personal communications...
The Innovation Race Is Getting Faster and Tougher
As the race intensifies, for innovation leaders to stay one step ahead requires more speed, more agility, and more stamina than ever before. The technology that was cutting edge yesterday will be obsolete tomorrow. Employment practices are evolving with lightning speed. New rules, new goals, new threats are emerging more quickly than many innovation leaders can handle them.
Innovation Leaders Stay One Step Ahead
#innovationmandate People often say that in today’s business environment where innovation is accelerating, competing in business is like running a race. True. In a race and in business, there are winners and losers. Actually, to be more precise, in every race there’s...
All Things Innovation
The purpose of this podcast is to give you fast and real actionable insights in the area of innovation, in the area of new product development, in the area of disruptive innovation, and really pretty much all things innovation. Now the reason I architected this podcast the way I did is that if you were like me and I suspect you might be, you certainly don’t have time to listen to a bunch of ramp ups and a bunch of concepts and theories. You’re looking for fast actionable real information that you can apply in your organization or even in your job function. And that’s the intention and that’s what we will achieve at All Things Innovation.
The Speed and Size of Innovation
#GSF Conference[spacer height="20px"] [spacer height="20px"]Yeah when you guys invited me to this movie I didn't know I was gonna be the movie. Well let's get this out in the open, you know right away. I'm obviously far less attractive in person than my publicist...
Innovation Leaders Make the Connection
#innovationmandate Many economists say that because of the Internet and global digital communications, we live in a “connected economy.” Although it’s true that we have more fibers of digital connectivity than ever before in human history, sociologists argue the...
Inspiring Leadership Promotes Innovation
#innovationmandate To stay ahead of the innovation curve, as a leader it’s imperative that you give your employees and stakeholders a reason to get up in the morning, come to work, and dedicate themselves to quality, innovation, and total customer satisfaction. It’s...
Successful Innovators Seek Truth
#innovationmandate Today’s winning innovation leaders know the first step towards leveraging disruption is to recognize the world as it really is and not as they’d like it to be. They know that wishful thinking will put them on the road to disaster. I once had the...