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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. Satya Nadella.

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Are We Really Prepared for a More Automated Future?

Lead Change Blog

education system for focusing on teaching skills that will effectively be automated in the future. Each of these technologies – typically advanced by a market innovator and not necessarily the technology inventor – changed the landscape of jobs in this country. by Jeff Selingo. Because of its resistance to change, of course.

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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

Leading Blog

The leading career-focused social network, LinkedIn, predicts your job skills. Target predicts customer pregnancy in order to market relevant products accordingly. Marketing casts a wide net—"junk mail" is marketing money wasted and trees felled to print unread brochures. The system grades as accurately as human graders.

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Is the Cost of Innovation Falling?

Harvard Business Review

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation.

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Sometimes Cutting R&D Spending Can Yield More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In fact, we think Cisco is one of the all-time best at this corporate skill. Our research shows that Cisco is unusually adept at this sequential ambidexterity , shifting between the two approaches at opportune moments.

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Tinkering with Strategy Can Derail Midsize Companies

Harvard Business Review

The new president thought Cellairis should not only sell accessories, it should sell wireless phone service as well. People shopping for cell phone cases were natural customers for a wireless service provider. It stiffed Cellairis and the wireless providers whose services it resold. Nothing more than a tweak, they thought.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.