LDRLB

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Dependence limits innovative thinking. And earlier this year, New York’s Mayor Bloomberg doled out awards specifically recognizing the city’s most innovative nonprofits. But here’s the challenge: most nonprofit innovations come from socially minded start-ups that invented themselves from scratch. Most of the 1.5 million do?

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LDRLB

APRIL 10, 2014

But the growth of a company can have an inverse relationship on customer focus. But look and the most innovative leaders and companies and you’ll see that they continually engage customers to help them reinvent their offerings and their organizations. Innovation Leadership innovation kaplan market research prototyping'

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Play Nice But Win : A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader by Michael Dell with James Kaplan. From Michael Dell, renowned founder and chief executive of one of America’s largest technology companies, the inside story of the battles that defined him as a leader.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Instead of trying to do more with less, May outlines how leaders and their companies benefit from simple from doing less. Innovation. Leapfrogging by Soren Kaplan. Leapfrogging is a powerful book in how surprise powers innovative breakthroughs. Kill The Company by Lisa Bodell. Growing a company can be tricky.

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Innovation Strategy Books Christensen 167

LDRLB

JULY 17, 2012

Disruptive innovation is no longer the exception, it’s the rule. Just look at Blackberry, Blockbuster, Borders, and Kodak – all companies that missed opportunities to leapfrog to the next big thing. Leading disruptive innovation requires managing incredible levels of uncertainty. Adaptive Planning. Savoring Surprise.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit BIF-6: Stunning Sights, Interesting People, Innovative Ideas Published by Michael Lee Stallard on September 15, 2010 06:16 pm under connection culture Life is good! why is everyone smiling?

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LDRLB

MAY 23, 2012

Soren Kaplan is the author of Leapfrogging and a speaker, educator, and managing principal at InnovationPoint , where he teaches leaders how to create business breakthroughs. But the growth of a company can have an inverse relationship on customer focus. I recently had the opportunity to meet with a major bank.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. We all know the companies and brands that failed to find this delicate balance: Kodak, Blockbuster, Borders, and the list could go on and on. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation.

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LDRLB

MAY 23, 2012

But the growth of a company can have an inverse relationship on customer focus. This happens when the company is actually doing well serving its customers with a specific product or service but refrains from trying something new fearing that valued paying customers will take their business elsewhere. And they do so strategically.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 30, 2020

Casting one’s mind back to the days when companies used to follow the mantra laid down by economist Milton Friedman and focused their energies solely on maximising the returns for shareholders, and it seems an altogether different era. They should determine a set of values necessary to deliver purpose, embedded in their company culture.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. We all know the companies and brands that failed to find this delicate balance: Kodak, Blockbuster, Borders, and the list could go on and on. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. The other domain is leadership.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 14, 2014

One of my favorite companies & sites ! While much has been written about the relationship between integrity, trust and profitability in the last few years, there are companies who have lived this for over 100 years, like a 165 year old, billion dollar plus, 6 generation family business in Wisconsin, Menasha Corp.

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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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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

When they converge, they’ll produce sea changes that sink companies and wash away entire industries overnight. The Power of Trust : How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It by Sandra J. Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation. Blog Post ).

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 25, 2020

There’s a general consensus that we should strive to make the world a greener and more sustainable place after COVID, with the European Commission proposing a European Green Deal to enable the continent to “live up to the challenges we are all facing” Central to this will be for companies and other organizations to do their bit, and (..)

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. Recently my company published our latest research on how companies execute that revealed 67% fail. Kaplan and David P.

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Execution Strategy Kleiner Norton 211

HR Digest

MARCH 9, 2020

Kaplan Professionals, an HR firm that assesses, designs and implements innovative learning solutions, conducted a three-year extended Situational Judgement Assessments of 4,500 employees at global tech firms and identified five key workplace findings. “In SJTs tests measure hidden capabilities and training impacts.

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Team Kaplan Attrition Survey 69

Mills Scofield

APRIL 27, 2014

You know how much I believe in serendipity & random collisions (a la Saul Kaplan !). I met Samir when he was in the 2nd cohort of the IE-Brown E-MBA while simultaneously investing and starting companies all over the world, including Chile, because, doesn''t everyone? This applies to companies too. She is so lucky.

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Wiseman Kaplan Open-book Engineering 155

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

In “ Good to Great ”, Jim Collins lamented the trend of boards that become “enamored with charismatic CEOs,” a tendency that, he concluded, was “most damaging” for “the long-term health of companies.” Over his twenty-seven-year tenure, he subordinated his own personality to the rich heritage of the company.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 13, 2011

After two decades of the application of even the most modern and innovative business principles, the problem remains. Only 27% of a typical company’s employees have access to its strategic plan. [3]. Kaplan and D. Kaplan and D. Kaplan and D. Only 5% of employees understand their corporate strategy.[4].

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Six Disciplines

MAY 10, 2011

While all of us agree there's a disconnect between strategy formulation and strategy execution, the developers of the Balanced Scorecard (Robert Kaplan and David Norton) offer up this terrifying observation: On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of, or do not understand, its strategy. Find out more today.

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Kaplan and Dr. David P. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance.

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Kaplan and Dr. David P. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance.

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System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 85

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs Soren Kaplan The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders [.]. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Robert D. Austin, Richard L.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One company that has managed to thrive off of the beaten track is UK Internet company Zen Internet, who were created in the Lancashire town of Rochdale in 1995 by Richard Tang with a desire not only to provide high speed Internet to the nation, but to do business in the right way. Rural innovation. An entrepreneurial beacon.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 9, 2012

Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs Soren Kaplan Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2012) The power and value of serendipity on the other side of complexity As I began to read this book, I was reminded of an observation by Oliver Wendell Holmes: “I wouldn’t give a fig for simplicity this side of complexity but [.].

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Kaplan Books Review Power 75

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Performance measurement typically drives much of the way a large company works. Supplementing profits with ROIC and revenue growth is a step in the right direction to ensure that the profits a business earns are actually creating value, not simply over-consuming capital that another company could better deploy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

That word is innovation, and it’s quickly losing whatever meaning it once had. Journal writer Dennis Berman begins by citing Kellogg CEO John Bryant, the respected head of a well-run company, who was describing one of its “innovations” for 2013. But if the CEO of a major company can call Gone Nutty!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Once every job in a company is defined in terms of the changes to be made (both large and small), constant improvement can become the routine. Each innovation brings lessons that inform ongoing operations. More companies need to describe their work in terms of where they are trying to go in the next month or next quarter or next year.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Alongside Clay Christensen, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen conducted an in-depth study that uncovered the five skills shared by the best innovators in the world. By Robert Kaplan. By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. Later on, a new innovator comes along and pushes it aside. Big companies are making lots of money, not investing all that much, and yet somehow managing to fend off newer challengers. Instead, he argues, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

My standard reply was that, yes, the public sector moves slowly — but then, big companies don't move so quickly either. Business model innovators aren't constrained by existing business models. Business model innovation is becoming the new strategic imperative for all organization leaders. Follow him on at @skap5.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

For me, it evokes a wonderful old New Yorker cartoon by Robert Weber , where a small, meek accountant stands before the desk of an overfed chief executive exhorting the accountant to rescue the company: "It's up to you now, Miller. Wall Street's " financial innovations " of recent years seem to have given creativity a bad name.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

You probably can think of something in your company that should change. In this case, the person I'm referring to is Dirk Beveridge, who has a small firm that creates sales strategies for wholesale distribution companies. We all can — but often look the other way. In the United States, wholesale distribution is a $4.8

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Need to turn around your company? Saul Kaplan is the Founder and Chief Catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory (BIF). Trying to start a movement? Want to change the world? Easy Peasy! Just turn it in to a game. The business world in particular has gone gaga for gamification. Follow him on Twitter at @skap5.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Enter my co-author, MIT-trained strategist and engineer Juan Carlos Méndez-García, who consults with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Saul Kaplan , Chief Catalyst at Business Innovation Factory, shares: "My life has been about searching for the steep learning curve because that's where I do my best work.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Here is an article written by William C. Taylor for BNET (January 4, 2011), The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * Ever since the publication, nearly two decades ago, of [.].

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