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3 Ways to Break Out of a Zero-Sum Game of Growth with Your Competitors

Leading Blog

How true disruptors use innovation, including digital, to grow the market and create new business models. It can drive new business models, open up adjacent products and help you grow the whole market. Now, more than ever, you can grow your business in the new and adjacent areas enabled by technology. It created a new one.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. Anyone can innovate if given the opportunity and the support. Actions have consequences and continuity of character matters. Blog Post ).

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The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge.

CO2

They have been studying over the past decade innovation within established organizations. In the process they have compiled perhaps the most extensive library of innovation case studies in the world. If you are struggling with innovation in your organization this is a must read. There is just one little problem.

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Getting China and India Right: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Gupta and Haiyan Wang Jossey-Bass (2009) How to leverage the world’s fastest-growing economies for global advantage In my review of Anil Gupta and Haiyan Wang’s previous book, The Quest for Global Dominance, co-authored with Vijay Govindarajan, I [.].

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How The Coronavirus Is Transforming Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

Pre-covid, innovation folk would talk about the value a “burning platform” plays in driving lasting change, and for many businesses, this has been just such a burning platform. There is scarcely an activity that has not been affected in some way, and our professional life has been no exception. Unnecessary hurdles.

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The Middle East Could Be a Cradle of Innovation

Harvard Business Review

We in the West tend to think of innovation as the next, new, shiny, tech, globally-accepted thing. But in emerging growth markets, new access to even existing technologies (e.g., But in emerging growth markets, new access to even existing technologies (e.g., But innovators such as CashU have created safe gateways (e.g.,

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31 Innovation Questions (and Answers) To Kick Off the New Year

Harvard Business Review

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) How do you define innovation? What are different types of innovation? What is disruptive innovation?