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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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Crystal Clear: Pioneering the Last 60 years of Display Technology Innovation & Looking Into the Future

Strategy Driven

Just take a look at laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and other handheld devices, which were all possible thanks to display technology innovation. Display innovation can also be found in factory equipment, oil rigs, trains, trucks and boats and airplanes. Other unique display applications include displays embedded in a credit card.

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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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Great Leaders Attract Great Talent

Great Leadership By Dan

They master challenges with a characteristic approach, and echo the habits of renowned innovators and entrepreneurs. T he Outsider: This is person who finds novel opportunities in industries and markets you might not normally target. The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for films. How do we know?

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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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Are You Recognizing Your People’s Best Ideas?

Great Leadership By Dan

Kodak invented the digital camera and never marketed it because executives saw it as a lower quality competitor to film. For any idea to be truly great, a breakthrough innovation, it usually has to be both novel and useful. creativity recognition innovation David Burkus' Great ideas get rejected all the time.

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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. The following is a guest piece by Derek Lidow.