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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. He offers a unique perspective on innovation and winning in the marketplace. The Components of Innovation Capital.

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Companies Can’t Be Great Unless They’ve Almost Failed

Harvard Business Review

I don’t mean a few quarters of sluggish growth or a one-time product flop, but a radical shift in its market, a major technology disruption, or a disastrous strategic bet that threatened the company’s very existence. It was a great idea for a conference, yet it amounted to a hill of beans.

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Six Marketing Mistakes at CES 2012

Harvard Business Review

Sure, it's an industry show, and the press here understands technology, but how do you think they will communicate about your product if all you give them is tech specs? For example, you don't make a video-distribution technology. Technology marketing needs to be shameless. Be bold, be shameless. You don't make speakers.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. If you can facilitate to help your prospect’s businesses, they will reciprocate. Start small and build up.

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Apple's Trojan Horse

Harvard Business Review

As I''ve written in my previous two blog posts, our first inclination is usually to play down the potential impact of a new technology. The Apple TV will whisk us to work, to school, to conferences, to the city, to Second Life, to our memory palace and virtual library, to shared worlds like Eve and Halo. Will this new tech happen?

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What Great Social Media Campaigns Get Right

Harvard Business Review

The web did not invent community-driven brands – just think of Harley Davidson — but technology has surely made the strategy more popular. Its founder, Saul Kaplan , is a self-professed innovation junkie. It is now a cult favorite in the innovation world. BIF’s annual conference serves as its focal point.

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Day 3 Davos Snapshot

Harvard Business Review

And follow Justin Fox's coverage of the conference.). I am listening to him share his comprehensive findings — soon to be released — on the power of values-based, self-governing corporate cultures as a driver of sustainable growth, innovation, and resiliency. Michael recently co-authored Wild West 2.0