Who will be my next competitor?
Dan Wooldridge notes that rigid thinking about your business model may make you susceptible to competitors that you didn’t see coming. Current examples show how fierce competitors can come from surprising directions.
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The Shelf Life of a Business Model
Dan Wooldridge discusses how newcomers to an industry can disrupt and destroy the incumbents. He shares data from a Gallup Survey authored by strategy guru, Gary Hamel.
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The film industry has been where the music business was — making it difficult to download digital movies even as hackers and pirates demonstrate how easy it really is. It’s time to face the music
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tracking the rise of the amateur
Jeff Howe is a contributing editor at Wired Magazine, where he covers the entertainment industry, among other subjects.
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Design, Technology, Business, Life
Simplicity = Sanity. This is the premise of the book for an overly complicated and increasingly complex world. Ten laws to help us move toward simplicity in design, technology, business and life.
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Cost cutting and process improvement are not sufficient paths to profit. Wealth is created through innovation, but innovation can be impeded by barriers within a company and in the market.
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A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace
Gordon MacKenzie worked at Hallmark for exactly 30 years — to the day. His role was to create for the giant greeting card company.
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How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of their Evolution
Moore is an influential thinker on how technologies disrupt and how this can be exploited as entrepreneurs and investors.
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How understanding the purpose of work stimulates innovation.
Ted Lucas of Lattice Capital Management LLC tells how understanding the meaning of work and the example of Bach stimulated creative thinking about his profession.
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BusinessWeek debunks the "romantic notion" that North American business is safely in command of design and innovation, while the rest of the world trails along to do our bidding.
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IDEO's Strategies for Beating the Devil's Advocate & Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization
God made us creative and innovative. Most organizations, though in dire need of innovation, kill it. Kelly identifies 10 roles people can play to stimulate innovation and fresh thinking while countering the naysayers.
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Innovation, Risk and the Kingdom of Heaven
The X Prize reminds us that the risk-averse are rewarded with mediocrity
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There's More Than One Way to Get Things Done
My brother-in-law hired an Amish company to put a new roof on his home. Those guys didn’t just look different; they thought and worked outside the box.
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Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway Human Transporter, makes an astute observation about what is at the foundation of a good invention.
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