What You Can Learn From the Decline of Nokia: Interview with former CEO...
How Nokia lost its world-dominating position has been the subject of much debate. Is it an issue of stronger competitors (i.e., Apple and Google)? Did Nokia lack the right strategy, or the ability to...
View ArticleWhy Michael Porter and Business Gurus Long In The Tooth Fail – Strategy
Sustainable competitive advantage is a theoretical concept created by Porter replete with disastrous consequences under the theoretical assumption that business is a zero sum game. Business has been...
View ArticleFour Steps for Creating Affordable Housing #econdev
In developing countries communities are struggling to meet the need for housing. As affordable housing goes so does the economic vitality of a country and community. McKinsey’s MGI report offers four...
View ArticleHow to Get Managers To Embrace New Trends #Innovation #leadership
Jeff Rubingh – Originally published in Innovation Excellence How do you get corporate leaders to embrace new trends in technology like the Cloud or Big Data? How do you get the executive stack to...
View ArticleReframing Failure To Innovate Again – #entrepreneurs
Former Disney President Michael Eisner said this concerning innovation and failure, “There’s no good idea that cannot be improved on.” Whether failure is met as an impediment or an opportunity is a...
View ArticleWhat Leaders Can Learn From The Fosbury Flop
By Jim Woods Like us on Facebook Failure is as vital to innovation and life as the sun is to earth. No one goes unscathed. Certainly some more than ever. Yet life compels each of us, albeit sometimes...
View ArticleThe Value of Focus In The Cycle of Innovation
By Kevin Riley Focus, in this and in all things, is key. Focus will reduce waste and allow for any quality of Idea Source to contribute to the cause. Focus lets your awakening Idea Sources be put to...
View ArticleDisruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave #innovation
By Joseph L. Bower and Clayton M. Christensen Although most managers like to think they are in control, customers wield extraordinary power in directing a company’s investments. Before managers decide...
View ArticleInnovation In Business: The Real Reasons Most Companies Can’t Innovate
Innovation is an uneasy adventure. Like all adventures in fables there are always enormous risks with alternatively enormous opportunity. Not all adventures turn out well. No, that is incorrect. They...
View ArticleHow To Improve Innovation Agility
In “Handbook for a Management Revolution” Tom Peters notes the importance of avoiding the mundane. Sage advice seeing how the mundane soon become the threshold. He cautions whether one is the C-Suite...
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