Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

3 Innovation is DOA. Product development has been a little slow for a while. These days, most of your product developments are minor enhancements that don’t yield better margins. You are on a death trajectory, just waiting for the competition to make you irrelevant. You need to re-energize innovation-fast.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 1, 2012

Throughout Creative Thinkering , Michael provides detail rich examples of his method’s application as well as challenging the reader to develop his or her own capabilities through numerous thought experiments. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

Creativity 56

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Too many organizations today have created and tolerated a range of practices in which creativity, innovation, and the fundamental expressions of our thoughts and feelings about our work and our futures are ignored or spurned. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2014

A thought leader in her field, Ann has worked with many hundreds of organizations around the world of all sizes and industries, helping them increase their thinking agility to improve profitability, leadership, productivity, innovation and overall business results. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2013

We explore the reasons for this shortfall in detail and discuss an innovative approach to maximize the off-site experience. Dan Parisi, Executive Vice President at BTS, a leading strategy execution consulting firm focused on the development and delivery of high-impact experiential learning initiatives that drive strategic priorities.

Business Simulation 79

Business Simulation Leadership Strategic Planning Bottom-up 79

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

When leaders are willing to make the shift away from bureaucratic work styles and structures, develop listening as a key management competence, generate cultures that welcome innovation, and build systems and processes that support this new way of working, their people will once again experience meaning and purpose in their working lives.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Chief Executive Officer 93

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

Dale Neef is a technology advisor, and author of Digital Exhaust: What Everyone Should Know About Big Data, Digitization and Digitally Driven Innovation (FT Press). FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Book value is not guaranteed.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

To develop harmony within an organization, leaders must ensure that actions are properly coordinated between different individuals. Lack of innovation, poor listening skills, poor meeting practices, and miscommunication and miscoordination all produce vast amounts of waste, and none of the historical measures of management can detect them.

Chief Executive Officer 63

Chief Executive Officer Delegation Competitive Advantage Project 63

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

The Miller heritage could not be lost, particularly because his founding products were innovative for their time. The new Miller Ingenuity logo strongly asserts that it is a company that invents solutions to customers’ problems, develops products with expert engineering, and knocks itself out to deliver to customer expectations.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2014

There are a number of ways to help managers succeed: professional development, training courses, carrot and stick rewards. Managers report not having time to attend training and professional development is stuck in the 1980’s; and, since when do we actually offer managers positive rewards for doing great work.

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Henderson Management Open-book Competitive Advantage 66

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 17, 2014

However, innovations in the neurosciences to developments in social media have revealed that profitability should no longer be relegated to sales figures and profit margins alone. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2015

Use the 'How' question to uncover critical success factors necessary to develop an effective strategic plan. Clever innovators and creative change agents recognize that solving problems 'inside' a box, when the box itself is the problem, is like moving chairs around on the Titanic. Books typically valued from $14.95 - $29.95

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Many try to come up with new ideas, but few are innovative without trying. If you are perceptive, you will pick up what people are thinking and develop your business to suit them. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Practicality.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2015

Being open to innovative solutions. Instead, Millennials should be encouraged to develop their leadership mindsets and principles. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Books typically valued from $14.95 - $29.95

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 12, 2015

Keogh oversees the production of innovative, high-quality ergonomic work tools that contribute to improving employee productivity and well-being. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Books typically valued from $14.95 - $29.95

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

They’re independent businesspeople who are now marketing their sales and personal development services using my intellectual property, both online and in the classroom. Companies like Amazon, Zappos, and Apple have marched to the head of the class by innovating BEFORE the market did, and they set the standard for others to follow.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In consumer business strategy – from branding to product development – addressing the emotional human needs continuum is crucial to success. By developing autonomy, children boost self-esteem. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2015

Faster innovation. The sharing of trust and ideas leads to developing business philosophies. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

Looking to increase the homeownership rate and “foster affordable housing,” the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) department issued regulations that required 55% of all government sponsored entities (GSEs) to purchase “affordable” loans from banks, either directly or through packaged MBS. .

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Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 70

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Faster innovation. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

In the past, salespeople were often the first step in a purchase process, and could significantly influence customer decision-making by controlling information about pricing, availability, competitive advantage, etc. Great salespeople don’t imitate, they innovate. Great brands avoid selling products.

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Brand Disintermediation Price Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2014

In today’s rapidly changing and exceedingly competitive business environment, it is imperative to continually uncover new and innovative ways to stay ahead of the curve and, most importantly, not get left behind. The rewards realized from developing even one breakthrough idea can be immense. What is Transformational Play?

How To 74

How To Competitive Advantage Learning Curve Innovation 74

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

The company’s cultural dysfunction, it seems to me, stems from the very nature of the company’s competitive advantage: Uber’s business model is predicated on lawbreaking. Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past.

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Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

Business development. Developing communications as a vital tool of business and life. This stymies employees’ professional development and hampers company productivity. The same fate had fallen the electronics industry, whose innovator (the Thomas Edison Electric Company) fell behind others in leading the trends and usage.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. Business development. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. Innovative Then and Now… Still Creating. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

Planning 86

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 86

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2015

Or is mobile app development considered peripheral and non-essential? (If If your firm outsources mobile app development to an agency or design firm, there’s your answer). FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

Business development. Professional innovation. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

Balanced Scorecard 96

Balanced Scorecard Budgeting Risk Management Learning-by-Doing 96

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business development. Thus, efforts to treat a fraction of one percent took resources away from addressing the other 99.999% of companies’ full-scope planning, training and marketplace development. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

Crisis 73

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Our longtime client Smule, a leading iPhone app company and frequent innovative marketer, came to us with a simple proposition: “We want a video that will do a million views and introduce our product to 13- to 17-year-old girls.” When not creating a splash online, Mischievious Studios develops and produces Feature Films.

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