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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Of course, part of that entailed reestablishing the company’s reputation for cutting-edge technology. The Takeaway for Leaders and Businesses If there is one thing you take away from Microsoft’s story, let it be this: Innovation requires planning. They plan their luck. But there was much more than that.

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N2Growth Helps Businesses Combine Strategy & Innovation for a Consumer-First Approach to Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Digital technology continues to transform both the retail and consumer experience. That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing. Advisory Services Focused on Leadership Training & Organization.

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Create an Adaptable Workforce to Ensure Your Company’s Longevity

Lead Change Blog

And because companies themselves continue to feel the pressures of all sorts of disruptive forces: competition, more fickle consumers, the adoption of technology, the beating drum of demanding investors. If a company plans to invest in adaptability training, it will also want to know what its return on investment will be.

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Understand Your Entrepreneurial Superpower

Skip Prichard

Susanna Camp is a journalist specializing in emerging technology. The city was buzzing with excitement, with startups popping up everywhere, and events and pitch nights hosted by new incubators hoping to attract investors. That’s why accelerators and incubators and tech ecosystems are so vital to this iterative process.

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5 Positions Companies Need To Navigate Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Ultimately, it is strategy rather than technology that will drive value creation. From there, low hanging fruit opportunities can be incubated. The transformative path from incubation to integration must include leadership, culture and organizational change considerations.

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How Bad Leadership Spurs Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

They all incubated their business ideas while employed by someone else. Therefore, bad leadership — or, if you prefer, incompetent management — is a major source of entrepreneurship. In fact, America owes much of its recent growth, technological innovation, and socioeconomic progress, to inept managers. Not really.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

What you point out, where you really focused in on these markets, where I think one of the best examples is where the end result of a hackathon can end up just totally terminating your entire market, how you plan for strategy then. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. LARRY: Sure.