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How to Build a Team of Innovators

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Chuck Swoboda : As increasing competition, new technologies and evolving customer expectations continue to disrupt nearly every industry, business leaders are turning to innovation as a way to keep their companies relevant. The standard solution is to create teams that focus explicitly on innovation. The problem?

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Slow Decline of Eastman Kodak due to an Inability to Reinvent

Coaching Tip

In its heyday, Eastman Kodak Company was an icon of innovation in photography; a juggernaut in its field. The film giant gave us the "Kodak Moment," which persists as the quintessential photographic experience even though in today''s digital camera age "selfies" on smartphones are a major factor. Kodak Focus on Film.

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Are You Recognizing Your People’s Best Ideas?

Great Leadership By Dan

The system, originally developed by a British officer and shared with Sims, required reworking some machinery around the weapon and retraining sailors on how to fire the weapon. Undaunted, Sims continued to send reports upward toward his superiors claiming the merits of his newly developed system. and then watched it die.

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Fujifilm Succeeded Where Kodak Failed

Coaching Tip

Eastman Kodak was head and shoulders above all the others in the manufacture of photographic film when Fujifilm wasn't in 1963. From the 1980s into the 1990s, a persistent struggle with Kodak was waged for world market share. just as worldwide film sales almost immediately began to fall. The difference was not just in sales.

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Ideas Are Not The Keys To Entrepreneurial Success

Tanveer Naseer

Most people assume that successful entrepreneurs are created solely based on how innovative and groundbreaking their new idea is. Disney didn’t think up animated films, or even amusement parks. No new idea comes formed ready for delivery to the market. Most don’t even care to find out—and most app developers fail.

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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. The Kodak name became synonymous with a resistance to change, but it’s not just innovation the company lacked.

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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

If you really want to understand a leader’s perspective on the market, ask them about their competition. In the military we valued actionable intelligence, studied our enemy’s strengths and weaknesses, developed a battle plan around a solid strategy, and executed our tactical mission as if our lives depended on it - because they did.