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Comment on Using Circumstance-Based Segmentation to Gain a Disruptive Foothold by Innovations That Will Sustain the Disruption Business Innovation

Innovations That Will Sustain the Disruption Business Innovation — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:24:14 +0000

[...] Gaining a foothold is just the first battle in the war. The exciting growth happens when an innovation improves in ways that allow it to displace incumbent offerings. These are sustaining improvements, relative to the initial innovation: improvements that stretch to meet the needs of more and more profitable customers. [...]

Comment on Strategic Management: The IKEA Way by WP Furn Blogs » Blog Archive » High Point Furniture Manufacturers

WP Furn Blogs » Blog Archive » High Point Furniture Manufacturers — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:55:09 +0000

[...] Strategic Management: The IKEA Way Business Innovation [...]

Comment on Strategic Management: The IKEA Way by Your Publicity To You » Blog Archive » Strategic Management: The IKEA Way Business Innovation

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:58:06 +0000

[...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onStrategic Management: The IKEA Way Business InnovationHere’s a quick excerptIKEA can afford to outsource activities in which it does not think it has a core competency, notably manufacturing, concentrating on those activities in which it has, such as design, marketing, logistics and distribution/retailing. … [...]

Comment on Strategies for Creating and Dominating New Markets: It’s the Problem That Matters by On the Role of Customers in Creating New Market: The Case of GAUSS Business Innovation

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:45:19 +0000

[...] Read other parts of Chapter 7: “What Role Does the Customer Play?” [...]

Comment on Creating And Dominating New Market, By Peter Meyer by Creating New Markets: On the Role of Customers Business Innovation

Creating New Markets: On the Role of Customers Business Innovation — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:43:20 +0000

[...] Read other parts of Chapter 7: “What Role Does the Customer Play?” [...]

Comment on Innovation to The Core (by Peter Skarzynski, Rowan Gibson) by Rules for Enhancing the Innovation Pipeline: Ideate Around Specific Themes Business Innovation

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:07:20 +0000

[...] other posts excerpted [...]

Comment on Rules for Enlarging the Innovation Pipeline: Widen The Front End by Rules for Enhancing the Innovation Pipeline: Increase the Combinations Business Innovation

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:04:16 +0000

[...] the organization and beyond. They are: (i) Involve many minds; (ii) Sow enough seeds; and (iii) Widen the front end. Applying these rules can take your organization a long way toward creating an innovation-friendly [...]

Comment on How to Build a Foundation of Novel Strategic Insights - Challenging Orthodoxies by Rules for Enhancing the Innovation Pipeline: Increase the Combinations Business Innovation

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:04:00 +0000

[...] previous posts outlined some principles and techniques (including Challenging Orthodoxies, Harnessing Discontinuities, Leveraging Competencies and Assets and Understanding Unarticulated [...]

Comment on Gary Hamel on Strategy: Perspective Is Worth 50 IQ Points by Gary Hamel on Strategy: You Can’t See the End From the Beginning Business Innovation

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:40:00 +0000

[...] Principle 8: Perspective is worth 50 IQ points. [...]

Comment on Gary Hamel on Strategy: Strategy Making Must Be Subversive by Gary Hamel on Strategy: You Can’t See the End From the Beginning Business Innovation

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:39:44 +0000

[...] Principle 2: Strategy making must be subversive. [...]

Comment on Gary Hamel on Strategy: Anyone Can Be a Strategy Activist by Gary Hamel on Strategy: You Can’t See the End From the Beginning Business Innovation

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:38:46 +0000

[...] Principle 7: Anyone can be a strategy activist. [...]

Comment on Gary Hamel on Strategy: Strategic Planning Isn’t Strategic by Gary Hamel on Strategy: You Can’t See the End From the Beginning Business Innovation

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:38:31 +0000

[...] Principle 1: Strategic planning isn’t strategic. [...]

Comment on Gary Hamel on Strategy: Strategy Making Must Be Subversive by Gary Hamel on Strategy: Top-down And Bottom-up Are Not The Alternatives Business Innovation

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:33:55 +0000

[...] Principle 2: Strategy making must be subversive. [...]

Comment on Positioning Current Products: Why Does Messaging Often Fail to Tout a Product’s True Value by Should a Company Message Along an Emotional or Functional Dimension? Business Innovation

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:22:32 +0000

[...] far we have talked about communicating messages of functionality to customers (see Why Does Messaging Often Fail to Tout a Product’s True Value; Prerequisites for an Effective Messaging Strategy and What Messaging Will Be Most Effective?), but [...]

Comment on Discovering the New Business Model by Redeﬁning the Field — What Business Am I In? by Discovering the New Business Model: Redefine Who Really Is the Customer Business Innovation

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:35:42 +0000

[...] is a fundamental rethinking of the question, “Who is my customer?” (The first source is what business it is in) Implicit in this question is the idea that the choice of customer is a strategic decision — it [...]

Comment on Blueprint Value Propositions - Category Killers: Optimize the Market by Exploit a High-Growth Market Segment: Lessons from America’s Top Successful Companies Business Innovation

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:05:14 +0000

[...] Category Killer superstore chains became a segment unto themselves. Even the superstores focused on large market [...]

Comment on Differentiate or Die: The Steps to Differentiation by Jack Trout on Differentiation: Differentiation Takes Place in the Mind Business Innovation

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:56:11 +0000

[...] you saw in the previous post, the final step in differentiation was about building a program to make people aware of your [...]

Comment on Rules for Enlarging Innovation Pipeline: Involve Many Minds by Rules for Enhancing the Innovation Pipeline: Increase the Combinations Business Innovation

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:20:20 +0000

[...] and captures a flood of novel ideas from across the organization and beyond. They are: (i) Involve many minds; (ii) Sow enough seeds; and (iii) Widen the front end. Applying these rules can take your [...]

Comment on Innovation to The Core (by Peter Skarzynski, Rowan Gibson) by Rules for Enhancing the Innovation Pipeline: Increase the Combinations Business Innovation

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:20:03 +0000

[...] other posts excerpted [...]

Comment on Rules for Enlarging Innovation Pipeline: Involve Many Minds by Rules for Enlarging the Innovation Pipeline: Widen The Front End Business Innovation

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:15:19 +0000

[...] kind of ideas that generate dramatic new wealth are going to be much, much higher. They are: (1) Involve many minds: Find ways to harness all the latent creativity inside your own organization-and in your extended [...]