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Flow of NOISEanalysis

Mike Cardus

I made NOISEanalysis to be solution-focused as opposed to SWOT, which feels problem-focused. Exceptions are perhaps the weirdest, and what separates NOISEanalysis from SWOT. Since covid19 shifted the environment significantly and pushed us into a global pandemic, I’ve been mixing the NOISEanalysis with premortems and red teaming.

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The CEO as Chief Brand Custodian | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Wouldn’t you expect more innovation? More and more, the critical role of chief brand custodian is relegated to middle managers who either lack the experience, the clout or the motivation to drive innovation into the brands they manage. And, the SWOT analysis is not the way to do it. Some do it well. About John.

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The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common

Harvard Business Review

Innovation is critical in a knowledge economy — driving growth, new products, and new methods of delivering value to customers. According to PwC’s 2015 study on Global Innovation , U.S. And yet, despite its importance, innovation is a difficult quality to cultivate both in leaders and in organizations.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Process : This business model design has 5 phases; Mobilize, Understand, Design, Implement and Manage. This final chapter puts it all together. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Pink Demos Dr. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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Industry Analysis Is Dead. What's Next?

Harvard Business Review

A lot of our most cherished tools — five-forces analysis, the BCG portfolio matrix, and even SWOT analysis — rest on this assumption. Among the paradoxes they observe is that market segments in many industries are fragmenting, even as global firms require increasingly large markets to drive growth and profitability.

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The Startling Fact About the Criteria to Make More Effective.

CO2

SWOTCreator by Model Creator – The origins of SWOT are not well known and a bit interesting. By brainstorming you can effectively collect idea sets that may have escaped you without it. Try using Brainstorm to generating new and exciting possibilities before you begin to sort those ideas with criteria. Pink Demos Dr. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

Long-dominant frameworks like the Five Forces or SWOT analysis have been based, accordingly, on a fundamental, often static or relatively long-duration, set of market and firm characteristics. Today, though, many of those characteristics are in flux much of the time. Today, though, many of those characteristics are in flux much of the time.