First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 25, 2013

Bob''s blog entries "Givers take all: The hidden dimension of corporate culture" "How Do You Create Innovation in Your Business? of the Oxford Princeton Program) in “The Corner Office” Compelling People Dave Kerpen HBR Huffington Post Hugh Martin (chief executive of Sensity Systems) in “The Corner Office” Inc.

Blog 75

Blog ROI Film McKinsey 75

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 13, 2019

A massive cultural shift is occurring and thus, if you’re a restaurant business, you have to be ready to innovate and attract customers to your establishment. That’s why you should film a short video to place on your website’s homepage, showing the type of customer service your waiters and chefs will provide.

Film 66

Film Sample Video Industry 66

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Dan’s guest for the month was Gary Hamel, author of What Matters Now (review forthcoming) and The Future of Management (review not need – buy the book). Or more recently why Kodak filed for bankruptcy, a ripple effect of their decision to focus on film. Kodak knew film. Their senior leadership knew film.

Intellectual Capital 122

Intellectual Capital Depreciation Hamel Film 122

LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

Yet for some innovation tasks, being in the same room is the best solution. Toyota uses the big open room as a way of bringing together large diverse groups to focus on creating innovative improvements to products. They know that space influences ability to innovate. Encourage home working and they may never return.

Open-book 126

Open-book Organizational Behavior Innovation Creativity 126

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Dan’s guest for the month was Gary Hamel, author of What Matters Now (review forthcoming) and The Future of Management (review not needed – buy the book). Or more recently why Kodak filed for bankruptcy, a ripple effect of their decision to focus on film. Kodak knew film. Their senior leadership knew film.

Intellectual Capital 68

Intellectual Capital Depreciation Hamel Film 68

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? While many have scoffed at the CBS show &# Undercover Boss, &# I believe it signals a very disturbing trend. I Think Not.

Blog 392

Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 392

CO2

DECEMBER 28, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. How did they miss the strategy to change as the market changed? Did they not even ask the question early on as the digital camera came into market?

Strategic Planning 76

Strategic Planning Executive Coaching Planning Execution 76

CO2

DECEMBER 28, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. How did they miss the strategy to change as the market changed? Did they not even ask the question early on as the digital camera came into market?

Strategic Planning 76

Strategic Planning Planning Executive Coaching Film 76

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In short, it's time for "Cessna" marketing, a look from 12,000 feet at American culture and commerce. As David Kamp points out in his wonderful book, The United States of Arugula , American cuisine is in a state of ceaseless innovation, routinely outstripping the culinary cultures from which it springs. It's just that he can't.

Trends 15

Trends Marketing Brand Film 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes. ” Embracing market risk in our careers is a high-percentage move. “A chink in the armor. If so, try it.”

Career 15

Career Market Risk Chemicals Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. Disney’s existing contract to distribute Pixar films was slated to end in 2006 and Pixar had announced two years earlier it would not renew the arrangement.). It was a bold push towards the future.

Creativity 8

Creativity Franchising Succession Film 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. Consider Fuji Photo Film.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

One of the most overlooked aspects of innovation is how much technology can enhance productivity. You can see this at work at Pixar, which was originally a technology company that began shooting short films to demonstrate the capabilities of its original product, animation software. That’s the hard part.”

Creativity 14

Creativity Team Film Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

As the Internet of Things (IoT) spreads, the implications for business model innovation are huge. And when feature innovation eventually proved to be too incremental, price competition would ensue, and products would become obsolete. Design Disruptive innovation Internet' Competition was largely feature-versus-feature warfare.

Business Model 14

Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Read this book, absorb this book, practice what it preaches, and you’ll be on your way to being a great communicator. Think about it this way: You likely spend countless hours collaborating and innovating to put forth really good ideas. The same is true for any camera crews who might be filming your presentation.

Tips 62

Tips Audience Newsletter Armstrong 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

As I discussed in an earlier post , that case addressed the question of whether a book buyer, having taken ownership of a physical book, is at liberty to turn around and sell it. In brief, resale markets are dangerous, especially for information goods. But that question is, to slightly mix metaphors, only the tip of the iceberg.

Marketing 8

Marketing Licensing Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , a new film set in India and directed by Shakespeare in Love's John Madden (age 63), hangs its plot on the notion of "outsourcing" the elderly. Why not outsource those liabilities — simply get them off the books? There are signs that market is forming: Marigold's arrival to U.S.

Outsourcing 12

Outsourcing Film Hotels Open-book 12

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. The more trust that exists between players, the more efficiently the system, market, or organization will work. One part of fostering creativity and innovation is to accept the inevitable failures.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The current social strategy of many Marketing and Ad Agencies goes something like: “It doesn’t matter if the content is good, as long as we get a celebrity to tweet it, the thing will go viral!” Yet any attempt to market to these hyperactive, frenzied, texting balls of estrogen would be rejected and loathed.

Marketing 50

Marketing Video Content Advertising 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." But then that Hollywood magic starts to kick in.

Rogers 15

Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

CEO 57

CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Marketers have long known that stories capture consumers’ attention and they commonly weave storytelling into their marketing messages. In fact, while the total tourism market in Amsterdam grew 19 percent from 2009 to 2014, the Heineken Experience grew 143 percent. The New Tools of Marketing. Consumers opt in.

Brand 8

Brand Storytelling Trout Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

This is more than just a smart marketing campaign. Lego’s Mindstorm robots (or education and innovation kits as they are sometimes known) were developed in collaboration with MIT Media Lab as a solution for education and training in the mid to late 90’s. People don’t ge t ideas; they make them. It is an entirely goal-driven process.

Education 13

Education Human Resources Participative Training 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

Plus, he's excellent meme-material and this allows the brand to circulate in the social media world, to join the conversation that is the new marketing. Cast them in films and other events? I mean, for a book about cultural innovation, what could be better?). Should Virgin Mobile give them more agency? Write back stories?

Brand 15

Brand Advertising Film Media 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Both are comments I got about my book, back in 2009, about setting direction, collaboratively. It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media. But real markets are much more precise.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work. The story, which apparently has echoes in some other school districts around the country, is but one more salvo in the wars of educational reform (recently depicted in the film Waiting for Superman — dont miss it).

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Michael Blake's 1988 book of the same name would be adapted into the 1990 Hollywood blockbuster western film directed, produced and starring Kevin Costner. Innovations like the da Vinci Surgical System is designed to make complex surgeries easier. For instance, increasingly, robots are making their way into the operating room.

Technology 8

Technology Film Operations Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

They can miss important shifts in the market simply because the telltale signs don’t fit nicely within their models. Managing People Book. In fact, my research has shown that in knowledge industries, rookies tend to outperform experienced staff in innovation and speed). The same is true in business. Further Reading.

Learning Curve 8

Learning Curve ROI Film Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

This resurgence in photography comes after a conversion of the industry from film to digital. The same fate had fallen the electronics industry, whose innovator (the Thomas Edison Electric Company) fell behind others in leading the trends and usage. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

Strategy 95

Strategy Budgeting Audience Risk Management 95

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You could tell by the language he used: "So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are becoming two quite different businesses, with very different cost structures, different benefits that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.". They're the ones Netflix has managed to upset right now.

Strategy 11

Strategy Christensen Price Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Like any creative process, any entrepreneur who wants to invent, innovate, or create must be willing to be imperfect and make mistakes in order to learn what works and what does not. Instead, as Pixar historian David Price shows in his excellent book The Pixar Touch , Jobs believed that Pixar was going to be the next great hardware company.

Film 8

Film Creativity Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

But this is just the beginning — industry analysts predict the market to double in less than a decade. Chris Anderson is the former editor-in-chief at Wired along with being a three-time bestselling business book author ( The Long Tail , Free and Makers ). So what could a drone-based business look like?

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

As the "world's largest site for readers and book recommendations," Goodreads can help make Amazon the definitive place to go for book-related information. The company is already the biggest provider of book advice, with its top-secret personalized recommendation algorithms, trusted user reviews, and inside-the-cover previews.

Advice 9

Advice Review Reputation Engineering 9