What Steve Jobs Taught Me About Growth (HBR Blog Network)
Big Idea: Steve Jobs taught us that our job as innovative business leaders is to manage the present while inventing the future. We must recognize that we are always a product of what we’ve done and who...
View ArticleThe Darker Side of Innovation (Innovation Excellence)
Big Idea: Innovation productivity is increasingly touted as one of the key elements necessary for re-gaining economic growth and creating jobs. While improving innovation performance will presumably...
View ArticleIDC: Decision Management Market at $10B by 2014 (JT on EDM blog)
Big Idea: IDC just released Worldwide Decision Management Software 2010–2014 Forecast: A Fast-Growing Opportunity to Drive the Intelligent Economy – the first ever market sizing for “Decision...
View ArticleThe Strategic Innovation Cube (London Business School BSR)
Big Idea: Companies that innovate tend to prosper. Yet the process used by the most innovative firms remains a mystery. Is there a way that any company can discern whether to commit resources to an...
View ArticleBefore You Link Pay to Customer Feedback: Five Essentials (HBR Blog Network)
Big Idea: More and more companies are tying incentive pay to customer metrics. The payoff from linking incentives to customer feedback can be significant. However, organizations that choose this path...
View ArticleDriver Based Budgeting vs. Driver-Based Planning (Alight Planning blog)
Big Idea: Driver-based budgeting is an approach for simplifying, expediting, and improving the budgeting process. This approach leverages relationships between business drivers and the mathematical...
View ArticleThe 6 killer apps of prosperity (TED video)
Big Idea: Over the past few centuries, Western cultures have been very good at creating general prosperity for themselves. Historian Niall Ferguson asks: Why the West, and less so the rest? He suggests...
View ArticleThe Social Credit Card: AmEx Syncs With Twitter To Turn #Hashtags Into Savings
By Austin Carr (FastCompany) FastCompany March 6, 2012 Big Idea: Connecting consumers, businesses and Twitter. Everyone wins! Consumers can earn rewards by tweeting their use of Amex at certain...
View ArticleRecapturing the Humanity within Strategy (Post 1 of 3 on Fast Strategy by Doz...
Upon reading hundreds of articles on management innovation, I have noted a recurring theme about how culture drives strategy. Zappos, Southwest, and Valve, to name a few, are repeatedly cited as...
View ArticleRecapturing the Humanity within Strategy: Mobilizing Minds
In post 2 of 3 (Read Post 1) on Fast Strategy, by Doz & Kosonen, we will be continuing the summary of the featured chapters and a discussion on the human side of strategic agility. By Mo Sook...
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