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How To Think About Innovation Differently

Joseph Lalonde

We’re predictable… How To Think About Innovation Differently. Move fast, follow momentum – The future is always changing. The post How To Think About Innovation Differently appeared first on Joseph Lalonde. Keep in mind, these couples had never met each other or talked. This is an amazing resource.

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The Building Blocks of Successful Corporate IT

Harvard Business Review

These workers bring different values on how to work, where to work, what to work on, when to work, and even why they work. Market leaders and fast followers seek transformational change; cautious adopters and laggards dip their toe into incremental change. Organizational DNA. See accompanying chart.)

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Strategic Choices Need to Be Made Simultaneously, Not Sequentially

Harvard Business Review

But all of them were stuck at the How to Win box. It is because they considered Where to Play without reference to How to Win. The challenge here is that both are linked, and together they are the heart of strategy; without a great Where to Play and How to Win combination, you can’t possibly have a worthwhile strategy.

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5 Leadership Lessons: The Velocity Manifesto

Leading Blog

In today’s high-velocity environment, Scott Klososky believes you need to understand how to guide your organization in the implementation and usage of technology—in short, how your organization “does” technology. [As The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.”

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Sprints Are the Secret to Getting More Done

Harvard Business Review

How to Boost Your Team’s Productivity. Sprints encourage fast follow-up. When LendUp began working on a new credit card for consumers with no or low credit, the team had many ideas for helpful features, but no clue how to prioritize them so it could design and launch the product. You and Your Team Series.

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Samsung Pay’s Older Technology Could Be an Advantage

Harvard Business Review

But Samsung’s new mobile wallet strategy may be a sign that they are finally becoming a true leader and shedding their image as a fast follower. The different configuration of Samsung’s pay system signals that this company can be an independent thinker about how they understand the broader mobile industry.

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Why Companies That Wait to Adopt AI May Never Catch Up

Harvard Business Review

They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. While some companies — most large banks, Ford and GM, Pfizer, and virtually all tech firms — are aggressively adopting artificial intelligence, many are not. We think this is a bad idea.