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Measuring Strategic Performance vs Intuitively Increasing Costs

Measuring Strategic Performance vs Intuitively Increasing Costs

There is a huge performance prize right under the noses of most organizations. It can start anywhere between 60 percent and 100 percent, before a “cultural multiplier effect” kicks in. The reason the improvements go untapped is because of the performance gap between strategy and implementation, according to Michael C. Mankins and Richard Steele in [...]

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Stories Can Build an Innovation Culture or Destroy It

Stories Can Build an Innovation Culture or Destroy It

This is Part II of the report on Thursday’s innochat where a group of innovation experts and practitioners tackle some of the innovation challenges facing organizations. Part I is here. Turning to her third question, moderator Gwen Ishmael (@Gwen_Ishmael) asked how the different types of innovation being discussed — incremental, breakthrough and transformational — impact [...]

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“Even Cavemen Learned That You Innovate or Die!”

Companies can face different challenges in their markets and with their customers depending on how they position themselves strategically on the innovation spectrum.

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Entrepreneurs Should Give Patents Another Look

Entrepreneurs Should Give Patents Another Look

Often frowned upon and always expensive, patents are not exactly top of an overstretched startup’s to-do list. But they are worth a second look, according to Prof. Steve Nichols of the University of Texas at Austin. Director of UT’s Chair of Free Enterprise, Nichols was speaking last week at the 2012 TCD Innovation Award in [...]

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Innovation is Location Agnostic

Innovation is Location Agnostic

A country or a region’s ability to exploit innovation is more important than its ability to create innovative break throughs, according to Nitin Nohria, Dean of the Barvard Business School.

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Analytics, Meet

Analytics, Meet “Mad Men”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2bLNkCqpuY

Despite the restrictions imposed by online advertising, there is room for creativity. It’s in the numbers

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6 Tips For Digital Marketing

6 Tips For Digital Marketing

Anthony Quigley offers 6 tips on how to manage Digital Marketing.

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5 Tips for Small Companies Looking to Export to Non-Anglophone Countries

5 Tips for Small Companies Looking to Export to Non-Anglophone Countries

Ross O’Loughlin explains how even the smallest companies should approach non-English speaking markets.

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How 1 Drawing and 2 Questions Can Deliver (Yet) More Value from I.T.

How 1 Drawing and 2 Questions Can Deliver (Yet) More Value from I.T.

Research shows that mapping a company’s Enterprise Architecture for senior executives is the first step in delivering more value from its IT investment.

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Don't Look to the Business for IT Innovation!

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