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Something Is Missing
According to some studies, well over half of all organizations take the time to create a growth or innovation strategy — a document that captures the choices they are making around what types of...
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Size Matters
A recent study carried out jointly by IESE Business School and Capgemini Consulting revealed: “The correlation between company size and reported innovation success rate suggests that it is much easier...
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The Evolution of Functional Leadership
There’s a fundamental shift underway, underwritten by transformative technologies, unprecedented global competition and ever-increasing customer/ consumer expectations. This type of broad-scale change...
View Article5 Innovation Imperatives for the MR Industry & Beyond
Here’s a talk we gave at the Cincinnati AMA Market Research Special Interest Group on The Five Innovation Imperatives for the MR Industry. Ended up being a lot of fun with lots of great discussion....
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2 Key Opportunities from the 2012 Global Innovation 1000 Report
For the past 8 years, Booz and Company has been conducting a Global Innovation study to drive deeper understanding behind R&D spending and its impact on financial performance as well as to...
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The 2013 Garage Review
We wanted to start off the year with some inspiring stories of organizations embracing the change that has become the new constant in today’s market, pushing the boundaries of their industries and...
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Business Model Innovation Trend: Anytime, Anywhere
Technology has increasingly been teaching consumers that they can get answers as soon as they ask questions and get responses to their Facebook posts within seconds; instant gratification is clearly...
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Business Model Innovation Workshop Series
None of us intend for our business to be down, flat or not growing enough to hit aggressive goals. The old strategies of cost-cutting, price increases and re-organization just aren’t sufficient in...
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Looking 10 Years Out, What Is Your Franchise Idea?
ESPN recently asked a group of baseball experts, “If you were starting a baseball franchise today and you could pick any player in professional baseball to carry the team for the first 10 years, who...
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The What/How Innovation Framework
Through our work over the years, we’ve seen many frameworks and models for defining different types of innovation. Even so, we didn’t see many that clearly helped to frame the two primary ways that an...
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Netflix Prioritizes Innovation
We often use Netflix as a great example of a company that was founded because they challenged an industry business model. They re-invented how we “rent” movies. No sooner than they did, they had to...
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Analogs: The Secret Sauce Behind Great Ideas
There is a secret sauce behind most great ideas. It’s what enables that seemingly elusive spark, creative imagination or strategic mind that seems to find the next big idea and successfully...
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Strategic Client Leadership Training: Moving from Functional Expert to...
Join us on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM (EST) for a Training Workshop on Strategic Client Leadership Training: Moving from Functional Expert to Strategic Partner. CLICK HERE...
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Connect or Die
Connect or Die: it’s a simple concept. We can expand our network and learn to truly partner, and thrive. Or, we can continue keep our companies isolated for the most part, and die. Increasingly, it’s...
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Four Steps to Quickly Assess the Landscape for a New Opportunity
Understanding the potential of a new product category or targeting a new segment has long been seen as an arduous task. In many organizations, multiple individuals from multiple functions armed with...
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Three Mindsets to Clear the Path to Innovation
The beginning of each new year is a great time to personally step back, reflect and plan for the year ahead. It’s the time we give ourselves permission to stop wandering aimlessly and put ourselves on...
View Article6 Marks of Actionable Brand Architectures
What is Brand Architecture? Let’s first say what it is not. It is not simply a packaging exercise. It’s not just a clustering of brands or sub-lines. Great Brand Architecture isn’t a retroactive...
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3 Tips for Leveraging How Brands Grow To Reinvent Your Marketing Strategies
The book How Brands Grow was released in 2010 by author Byron Sharp, the director of the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science at the University of South Australia. Since then, it’s gained...
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The New Commodity: Insights
For years in the marketing and market research industry, insights were the holy grail. That magic “sweetspot” where a marketer understands a deeper truth behind a consumer’s behavior; or the gaping...
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Four Lessons From The Failure Of Google+
In late July, Google announced changes for Google+, which many perceived as the onset of the “dismantling” of Google+. We’ve been reading up on the various perspectives about “failure” of the big...
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