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Claim Your Competitive Edge: Always Be First

January 27, 2012 by Small Biz Bee with 25 views

Lot of ways to make your small company competitive and gain a lead over the other guys battling it out for your clients. One of the best techniques is, when you have an innovation or strategy to offer consumers, be sure you arrive first. You’ll gain a competitive advantage that will be tough to overcome unless your product or service... [read more]

The Life and Death of Innovation Communities

November 10, 2011 by Gavin Heaton with 66 views

Innovation has been a business buzzword for decades. Yet despite this, we continue to seek out innovation where every it may hide within our organisations. [read more]

Stuck Coming Up with a Big Idea? Host an 'Idea Party'

October 20, 2011 by Pamela Slim with 116 views

You know the feeling, staring into a blank computer screen, desperate to come up with Your Great Novel or Next Big Startup Smash or Fancy New Program That Will Delight Everyone. [read more]

Tribute to Steve Jobs and All Inspired by Him

October 6, 2011 by MarcSokol with 79 views

You probably know by now that Steve Jobs died October 5th. His life story can be read here. Below I invite you to pause to consider one of the many comments in response to his passing. This one is a fitting tribute to Jobs’ spirit and actions; it’s good advice to all of us: [read more]

Shine - An Online Movie on the Entrepreneurial Journey [Video]

August 24, 2011 by Steve King with 144 views

SHINE is an online movie about the entrepreneurial spirit with interviews in Seattle. [read more]

Fidelity on Leading Sectors for Innovation

April 27, 2011 by Steve King with 70 views

I like to follow research from investment companies because they put their money (actually, other people's money) where their mouth is.  Leading Sectors for Innovation from Fidelity Investments looks at innovations in health care/medical devices, media and entertainment and information technology.  The medical innovation areas... [read more]

5 Strategic Blunders; Rackspace's Strategy; Butler's Strategy; Russian Strategy

April 7, 2011 by Verne Harnish with 121 views

New Page 2 "...keeping you great" HEADLINES: 5 Strategic Blunders - my latest Fortune "Venture" column is out on the newsstands (April 11 edition) and online. See how Randy Cohen, TicketCity; Roger Hardy, Coastal Contacts; Doug Schukar, USA Mortgage... [read more]

Identifying your company’s hidden potential

April 6, 2011 by JamesTaylor with 118 views

Paul Nunes of Accenture presented some of his work at the Accenture Institute for High Performance. He began with a story – Zenith. Zenith did well in radios, got into television and rode that curve and as competition grew more intense they got into PCs and computers. But they sold off the computer business rather than the TV business... [read more]

2 Reasons your sales are stalled or non-existent

April 6, 2011 by Pamela Slim with 65 views

Selling is a tricky thing. In addition to making sure that you create something truly useful that people will get value from, you have to clearly identify your ideal client. And figure out the ecosystems and watering holes where they hang out. Then there is the sales letter — a slippery thing even for a wizard like Sonia Simone. You... [read more]

Knowledge Transfer - A Generational Challenge For Strategy Execution

March 30, 2011 by Skip Reardon with 193 views

As large numbers of baby boomers retire, knowledge transfer becomes critical to an organization's sustainability and competitive edge. In a knowledge economy, firm-specific knowledge is critical to the sustainability, performance and innovation of organizations facing the imminent retirement of large numbers of baby boomers. According to... [read more]

Tear Down These Walls and Unleash Innovation!

March 29, 2011 by Holly Green with 122 views

In 1987, president Ronald Reagan gave his famous speech in which he implored Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall!” I’m going to paraphrase his history-altering quote and urge today’s business leaders to tear down these walls! Which walls? The ones that get in the way of cross-communication within organizations... [read more]

Can There Be Innovation Without Competition?

March 28, 2011 by David Armano with 86 views

On my flight to Paris I finally got to watch the documentary "Waiting for Superman". The film documents the plight of education in the United States and underscores the dysfunctions within an educational system which risks being able to compete globally. A complex problem no doubt, but it got me thinking about the notion of competition... [read more]

5 recommendations for successfully implementing distributed innovation and shared value

March 23, 2011 by Ross Dawson with 33 views

Chapter 5 from Living Networks, on Distributed Innovation – Intellectual Property in a Collaborative World, is still immensely relevant today. We are still relatively early on in working out the implications for innovation of distributed value creation. Here is a section towards the end of the chapter which provides 5 recommendations on... [read more]

The U.S. Cloud Work Revolution

March 7, 2011 by Steve King with 578 views

It's popular these days to talk about a decline in U.S. innovation and competitiveness.  Because of this, it's nice to see examples of U.S. companies winning.  John Dovorak's The U.S. Smartphone Revolution at PCMag.com describes the ascendancy of the U.S. smartphone industry, which he describes as  "one of the... [read more]

What the US jobs picture says about the need for innovation here—and abroad

February 22, 2011 by Andrew Marshall with 1,181 views

Periodically, we revisit the aftereffects of the “Great Unpleasantness” and how they are playing out in the global economy. One of the challenges in drawing conclusions based on macro-economic data is that it hides profound local consequences in the shifting of percentage points. In most first-world nations, the current game is watching... [read more]

Autopoiesis and how hyper-connectivity is literally bringing the networks to life

May 11, 2010 by Ross Dawson with 216 views

When I started writing my book Living Networks in early 2002 I thought that it was important to demonstrate that the concept of 'living networks' was not just a metaphor, but a reality: we, together with the networks that connect us, are literally a new life form. To show this I drew on the literature on autopoiesis, which was proposed... [read more]

The Power of Why

May 10, 2010 by Brad Feld with 483 views

Simon Sinek’s TED Talk from TedxPuget Sound (Sept 2009) has been posted and is just awesome.  He starts out with the question “Why is Apple so innovative,“ Why is it that Martin Luther King led the civil rights movement,” and  “Why is it that the Wright Brothers were able to figure out controlled power manned flight... [read more]

Invention is the Mother of Necessity

April 23, 2010 by Tim Berry with 189 views

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, but in our world, these days, it’s often actually exactly in reverse: invention is the mother of necessity. For example, before we had cell phones we survived without being able to call from anywhere to anywhere at any time. Phone calls happened only when we were at home, or in the... [read more]

Innovation: How Insane Are We?

April 7, 2010 by Editor Bloggertone with 188 views

Einstein had some pretty quotes but my favourite one is the one that goes:  "insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results" .  It's short, sharp and shockingly true.  How many of us keep doing the same things, in the same way, hoping that something different is going to happen.... [read more]

Lean times favour innovation

March 22, 2010 by Kate Carruthers with 268 views

Companies struggle with how to innovate when their existing business is stable or growing.  There is often a perception that innovation requires a lot of investment. However, it has been my experience that it is much harder to innovate in a successful and prosperous organisation than in a leaner and hungrier one. The... [read more]

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