First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 28, 2014

He advises large, global organizations on strategy, innovation and organizational change and is recognized as a leading expert in enabling organizational renewal and growth through innovation. Peter Skarzynski is a founder and Managing Partner of ITC Business Group, LLC.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Wilde 75

Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

As an increasing portion of the processes and tasks that deliver customer value are digitized, the advantages increase to create a much more scalable enterprise, capable of delivering an unprecedented scope of products and services, all characterized by an impressive rate of improvement and pinpointed targeting.

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Operations Industry Learning-by-Doing Automotive 290

Leading Blog

AUGUST 14, 2018

I N TODAY'S competitive environment, where latecomers can copy almost any product or service, companies can no longer just be good at what they do. In other words, core competencies turned into core rigidities, preventing the firm from responding appropriately to the strategic threat Yamaha posed.”.

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How To Core Competence Pharmaceuticals Creativity 165

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 28, 2014

It also helps to view these constraints as similar to limitations one faces in innovation – where the goal is to find the most effective way to address the roadblock while remaining on course to what you ultimately want to achieve.

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How To Core Competence Constraint Learning-by-Doing 257

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. This is quite understandable.

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How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

But it got stuck in its core competence of traditional film products and missed the rise of digital photography and printing. They have gone through different cycles of disruptive innovations, leaving some businesses, and creating new ones. And the ability to do that may become a new core competence.

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Core Competence Prahalad Film Hamel 15

Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 12, 2016

Look to companies outside of the organization’s market… And steal from them – Every organization has their core competencies. Or maybe their core business is selling computer software. Leaders with a maker’s mindset know that innovation won’t come from looking at companies in the same market.

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Core Competence Creativity Influence Software 120

Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

Leadership Tip: make change a core competence. First, it is critical to make change a core competence. Curating an ecosystem (including customers, peers, venture capitalists, executive recruiters, and strategic vendor partners) to be source of insight and inspiration is the fastest path to broader innovation.

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Company How To Core Competence Venture Capitalist 100

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

You will also be competing to retain talented employees that other companies would like to lure away. What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? How about competing for the attention of your prospects and clients?

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Blog Brand Depreciation CEO 289

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 316

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

But as a company who also values innovation and “looking around the corner,” we are always challenging the status quo—so absolutely, there is always room for improvement! And as a company, we’ll lean into digitally enabled workflows and digital tools and resources for people to be productive working wherever they are.

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Software Engineering Learning-by-Doing Diversity 98

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Prahalad , the guru of “ core competence ,” doing a strategy audit for a huge Indian conglomerate. It needs to shed a few divisions and find and focus on an integrative core competence. The customer is the ultimate beneficiary of these enhanced core competencies—not the driver or determinant.

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Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 8

Women on Business

AUGUST 24, 2011

Innovate –Think Outside the Box –Do not be a boring cookie cutter. Lead & Brand — Harper was committed to producing and selling only organic, safe products in her salons. Stick to Principles & Core Competencies – Markets change. Competitors appear.

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Franchising Succession Core Competence Follow-up 226

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

And finally, business model innovation is getting the recognition it deserves. That’s why I was thrilled when my friend and one of business model innovation’s gurus, Saul Kaplan , wrote a must read book sharing his real world experiences - The Business Model Innovation Factory. For many, this is frightening.

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Kaplan Business Model Levitt Christensen 151

Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

With leadership training, managers can study the core competencies they need to adapt and grow for their entire career. Greater Productivity: Managers who have undergone leadership training can motivate and inspire their team members to perform better, resulting in high-performing teams and more efficiency.

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Middle Management Training Management Leadership 52

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Chew Your Way to Afternoon Brainpower by @ RobynMcMaster [link] # neuroscience #productivity #. Beyond Core Competence via HBR [link] # strategy #vision #. link] # communication #productivity #. From Trash Cans to Nokia: Is Creativity Innovation? link] # innovation (via @ KatriK ) #. Thanks Mike; likewise.

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Core Competence Learning-by-Doing Tips Blog 113

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 13, 2014

When it comes to promoting innovation in our organizations, we are continually reminded of the importance of communicating acceptance of failure as part of the process to developing a new product or service offering.

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Delegation Long-term Learning-by-Doing Motivation 275

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. We all get it: innovation is the lifeblood of every organization.

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Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

More and more companies are realizing they must reinvent their cultures by infusing innovation into their DNA. With almost 4,000 employees, CSAA IG has embarked on a systemic approach to create a pervasive culture of innovation. Most people focus on the first type of innovation: incremental.

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Insurance Innovation Core Competence Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Core Competencies. Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

” It’s important to distinguish between different types of innovation, and the responses they require by firms. In a recent publication in the Journal of Product Innovation, we undertook a systematic review of 40 years (1975 to 2016) of innovation research. This may happen in two ways.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Business Model Human Capital 12

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Recent research has shown that “high purpose” companies — those who have a point of view on social issues, innovate with purpose, and have a commitment to society — outperform “low purpose companies.” They’re less productive, take more “unhealthy” days off of work, and cost your company money. greater revenue growth 34.7%

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Recent research has shown that “high purpose” companies — those who have a point of view on social issues, innovate with purpose, and have a commitment to society — outperform “low purpose companies.” They’re less productive, take more “unhealthy” days off of work, and cost your company money. . greater revenue growth.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Last month, we learned about Geneca's journey into creating a culture of innovation within the company. Cone proclaimed in 2010 that “cause marketing as we know it is dead” “Slapping a ribbon” on a product, website, or advertisement was now perceived as inauthentic.

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Ryan PR Project B2B 130

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

The innovator's quest has been to find the win-win proposition: a great new product that can create differentiated value for consumers while supporting differentiated profits for the producer. The innovator's job is now to create wins across the board. Ensuring your collaborators are ready before you launch your product.

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Innovation Supply Chain Telecommunications Core Competence 13

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Guest post from Rowan Gibson : Not since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution has there been a greater need to learn the art of innovation leadership. But as execution capabilities become commodities, and the life cycles of new offerings get increasingly shorter, it’s precisely these innovation skills that need to be learned.

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Innovation Business Model Trends Franchising 120

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Most companies sabotage their own innovation processes without meaning to. Innovation is episodic. We've all seen this movie: A few people in the organization have a burning desire to foster more innovation, or a different kind of innovation, so they invent a new process. It's easy to ax innovation. What to do?

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Process Innovation Diversity Budgeting 16

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

Guess I’d add CURIOSITY – if I were to add to this cool list:-) Curiosity’s the gift of staying alive mentally – looking for nuances that could hold innovation possibilities – the lifeline that prevents us from defaulting to ruts – the trigger that stirs up more brainpower when we could be bored.

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Blog Greenleaf Maslow Open-book 206

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2011

I think they'd benefit from a quick look back at a failed innovation Google quietly DNR'ed. It offers a sobering reality check for anyone who believes that great people, great skills, great wealth, a great brand, and a great opportunity invariably lead to great innovation, They don't. Not even for Google. Nothing much happened.

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Innovation Health Care Core Competence Media 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

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Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Creativity and innovation depend on it! Too often leaders and managers miss out on marking achievements and innovations… their own as well as those of others! Listen and understand what went wrong, and help your team to prevent it from happening again. Conversing in an open way that allows all options and possibilities to unfold.

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Leadership Blog Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 257

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In a study I published in 2008 , for example, eight months after 173 employees of a small city in California were trained in creativity competencies, managers were still receiving 55% more new ideas than they had been receiving before the training, and city officials attributed $600,000 in new revenues and $3.5 HBR Must Reads on Innovation.

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Creativity Core Competence McClelland Team 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

Do you know why you make the products or offer the services you do? They get stuck making incremental improvements that are rooted in existing competencies, markets, and business models. This is especially problematic when companies decide to innovate. What are our core insights that will lead us to market-shaping innovations?"

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Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 14

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Maybe we need to have the courage to live our truth regardless of what the outcome is, but when it comes to threatening one’s livelihood, the situation requires more innovative measures, as you did. I agree it is hard to confront your boss and it is even harder to go over your boss but it can hurt the organization and its productivity.

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Leadership Follow-up Blog Greenleaf 150

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

Consider that Amazon also offers free same-day delivery by 9 PM on more than 1 million items in select areas and free two-hour delivery on some products in select metro areas through its Prime Now option. In its announcements and ads about the new free shipping service, product prices have not been mentioned. But this rarely ends well.

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IT Strategy Strategy Core Competence Price 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates'', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. The debate has focused almost entirely on the leadership of innovation. We have known for a long time that innovation is the name of the game now.

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Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 10