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Global Innovation Barometer–2013: Unconventional Strategy Unlocks New Drivers for Innovation– Pushing Comfort Zones
Innovation rules are changing, globally, and companies must reinvent their strategy in order to stay competitive, drive growth and contribute meaningfully to the economy… For innovation to flourish, you must embrace a new innovation paradigm that promotes collaboration between all … Continue reading
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Disruptive Innovation… Displace-Replace-Create: Transforms What Exists–Invents What Doesn’t–Obsoletes Marginal Value…
Disruptive Innovation: Disruptivators that we admire– the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with … Continue reading
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Knowledge Funnel– Drive Balanced Thinking for Creativity, Innovation, Value Creation: Fuel the Funnel
As knowledge moves through the ‘knowledge funnel’, productivity grows and costs drops… The knowledge funnel balances the exploration of new knowledge (innovation) with the exploitation of current knowledge (efficiency) that facilitates value creation… In today’s competitive business environment, organizations must … Continue reading
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Design Thinking– Strategic Framework for Innovation and Growth or Regurgitation of Old Concepts
Design thinking runs far deeper than aesthetics…. If you are mapping out a sales strategy, or streamlining a manufacturing operation, or crafting a new system for innovating… you are engaged in the practice of design. ~Bill Breen Some experts say … Continue reading
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When Business or Life is Not Working– It’s Dead: Get Off the Proverbial Dead Horse– Stop Dragging It Around
When a horse is dead– it’s a dead horse, get off– there’s no sense in kicking or beating it– it’s a lost cause. If the horse you’re riding is dead…Get Off! If you’re not getting anywhere in your business, life… if … Continue reading
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Management by Fuzzy: Decision-Making in Environments of Ambiguity, Uncertainty– Tough Decisions with Fuzzy Logic
In the world of fuzzy logic, two statements can be both true– even though they contradict each other. Humans have a remarkable capability to reason and make decisions in an environment of uncertainty, imprecision, incompleteness… of information. Fuzzy logic is … Continue reading
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The Ultimate Ubiquitous Internet– Any Place, Any Time, Any App, Any Device… Omnipresent: Web Stats, Facts, Myths…
The ubiquitous Internet will be understood not as a screen of text and graphics but as a transport mechanism, the ether through which interactivity happens. It will appear on your computer screen; on your TV set; your car dashboard; your … Continue reading
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Stay Ahead of the Curve– Shape the Future of Your Business..: Convergence of Visionary Ideas and Creative Discomfort
Stay ahead of the curve: When playing by the rules– one does the best they can; whereas when making the rules– one stays ahead of the curve… or game, or pack… and, others do the best they can… There’s a saying: … Continue reading
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Thinking Backwards– Sometimes Things Work Best in Reverse, Inverted, Opposite: Think– Outcome vs. Solution vs. Process…
The human mind, once stretched by a new idea, such as, thinking backwards.., will never regains its original dimensions ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Thinking backwards is not original thinking… and so it’s said, in one form or another, but it’s very effective … Continue reading
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Beyond Great: Think the Unthinkable… Do the Undoable… Reach the Unreachable– Dare Disruptive Innovation
We must dare to think about ‘unthinkable things’ because when things become ‘unthinkable’, thinking stops and action becomes mindless. ~ J. William Fulbright In this complex and rapidly changing world, it’s an imperative that you dare to think the unthinkable thoughts … Continue reading
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