Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

These companies have failed to innovate and stay ahead of the rapid changes in technology, and so have fallen by the wayside. Companies with a high AQ are able to spot customer pain points and trends, and shift gears to create new opportunities that leverage the company’s core competencies and expertise.

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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. Bob''s blog entries Apple Brilliant Mistakes C.K.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

AI is breaking down the limits that are inherent in traditional operating models to drive new value, growth, and innovation. Digital technology and AI are meeting an increasing variety of needs and enabling an incredible variety of use cases.”. Capabilities Are Increasingly Horizontal and Universal.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 14, 2018

Steinway & Sons spiraled into decline “in large part due to its myopic obsession with craftsmanship at the expense or technological advancement and automation.” In other words, core competencies turned into core rigidities, preventing the firm from responding appropriately to the strategic threat Yamaha posed.”. “It

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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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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? What about competing to maintain key business relationships with vendors, suppliers, partners and the like?

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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. It sold this money-losing division systematically evolved itself to become, once again, a respected technology competitor. They develop chipsets and license to manufacturers who then produce and sell.

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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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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! There wasn’t a lot of direct customer interaction, and innovation was hindered by this schedule. Our business plateaued and growth stalled.

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Last month, we learned about Geneca's journey into creating a culture of innovation within the company. Cause marketing, she said, was going in a new direction: Leveraging core competencies to make a positive difference in the community, on employees and the bottom line. Just goes to show what great leadership can do!

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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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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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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. 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.”

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. 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.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. ” Beyond the skills required to perform specific jobs, technology will also determine which jobs matter most in the years to come. Most companies have been slow to react.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

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. If they can't replicate the thinking driving your innovations, they'll be doomed to "me too" status. in a new way. Forward-looking.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Innovators more intent on inventing the future than predicting it should look hard at how cutting-edge scientists now computationally massage their big data. AH, not AI, will increasingly inspire tomorrow’s breakthrough innovation. The breakthrough innovator’s hypothesis doesn’t have to come from a human.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

It has also been acquiring e-commerce niche players, including Shoebuy and outdoor gear retailer Moosejaw, and digital technology companies, such as search experts Adchemy and cloud platform OneOps. Core competencies stagnate, customers become confused, and the opportunity to lead instead of follow is squandered.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As an aspiring PM, there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies , Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. The best PMs I have worked with have mastered the core competencies, have a high EQ, and work for the right company for them. Core Competencies. Company Fit.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

He said: "Technology alone is not enough. It's technology married with the liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that makes our hearts sing. Steve Jobs' legacy in product development has been clearly established and celebrated. What remains now is to determine his legacy in company development.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The most painfully awkward debates I hear in ostensibly innovative organizations revolve around "crazy ideas." Defining those crazy zones is one of the most difficult but more important cultural decisions innovation leadership teams can make. When unexpected challenges arise, what ideas are acceptably crazy? Which ideas are too crazy?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Shortly after the elimination of Geography here at Harvard, the discipline underwent a quantitative and computational revolution that eventually produced innovations like Google Maps and global positioning systems, to name just two. Design Information & technology Technology' The timing couldn’t have been worse, really.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty. The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Cisco's clever little camcorder collapse provides picture-perfect insight into a pervasive innovation pathology: Ignoring — or disrespecting — the obvious. The sad but simple truth was that Cisco — arguably the world's premier internet network technology company — didn't deliver a Wi-Fi-enabled device.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. However, the company's initial steps to penetrate developing markets were unproductive. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced. As they develop, poor countries will catch up with rich ones.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

R&D and marketing typically come at product development from different angles, and R&D’s “things” approach is often at odds with marketing’s “people” focus. Where marketing is more in charge, R&D’s complaints tend to be about a lack of imagination, of too many incremental innovations. But that doesn’t usually happen.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

But the team went beyond that, figuring that if they were having difficulty with certain technology infrastructure problems, it was highly likely that other companies were experiencing similar problems. Level 7 – Take initiative to implement the solution or develop the breakthrough. Innovation Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. The translation involves people and processes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. Second, factoring in cost makes online technology much more competitive.And The advantages of MOOCs and, more broadly, online technology as a delivery channel, are real.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Here are three examples: Innovation: Companies that continually innovate — such as Google, Intuit, 3M, P&G, and Apple — don't put all their eggs in one basket. But what most people don't realize is that this thought process can be applied to other organizational areas.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Rivals were developing digital technology to replace the existing analog standard. Build off its core competence, or play from weakness? Could both technologies exist side by side? That’s partly because they had spent much of their lives building up their expertise in analog technology. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The same investment logic holds for Apple's innovation ecosystem; the flow and fortune of its third-party apps development alone would yield valuable insight. The rising ability to identify, capture, and repurpose the data byproducts of an ongoing business is coming to rival the perceived "core competence" of the core business itself.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Some of the most exciting — and challenging — innovations in social media are around how to enable users of sites like Facebook and Pinterest to make recommendations, referrals, or "likes" of the products and services they use. This means they want to talk to your customers. Social media understands this and facilitates it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

antitrust authorities seem to believe that Google needs to be policed from stifling innovation in the marketplace. Since the layers communicate using application program interfaces (APIs) provided by vendors operating in the layer below, those vendors that dominate one layer can use their power to control how the layer above develops.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Some of the most exciting — and challenging — innovations in social media are around how to enable users of sites like Facebook and Pinterest to make recommendations, referrals, or "likes" of the products and services they use. This means they want to talk to your customers. Social media understands this and facilitates it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

At the same time, compensating people for collaboration can be tricky, says Deborah Ancona, a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and coauthor of X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed. Ancona says that many companies include teamwork as a core competency in their leadership development models.

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