5 Outdated Marketing Strategies (and What to Do Instead)
Here are five time-honored marketing strategies that were once best practices but which now make a company look clueless and a bit silly. 1. Spokesmodels An oft-quoted maxim of…
Building Differentiating Capabilities for Innovation
We so often get caught up in the building of our capabilities. In some ways, I keep attempting to “peel the innovation onion” in explaining the need to focus…
Break the Innovation Barrier – Start Pretotyping!
What is Pretotyping? What’s the hardest part about creating a successful product or service? If you’re Elon Musk building rockets, it might be the product itself. But for us…
10 Principles of Strategy through Execution
Having a close link between strategy and execution is critically important. Your strategy is your promise to deliver value: the things you do for customers, now and in the…
How To Tackle Today’s Data Quality Challenges
If your data quality is suspect, your analytics program may also be doomed. Here’s a look at today’s data quality challenges and how to tackle them. Today’s information consumer is…
How Business Intelligence Is Being Disrupted for the Better
For years, business intelligence (BI) has been the industry standard for helping leadership gain visibility into business operations and make data-driven decisions. Many companies saw the analysis of their data…
Promoting Innovations Through Operational Process Optimization
Striving to make your business the best is a natural desire for all of us. As a young woman entrepreneur, I believe that constant progress is the key to…
Do University Incubators Harm Innovation?
There is scarcely a university in the western world today that doesn’t have some kind of facility to support students and academics who wish to create new companies around…
How Innovation Really Happens
When Alexander Fleming, a brilliant but sometimes careless scientist, returned to his lab after a summer holiday in 1928, he found his work ruined. A bacteria culture he had been growing…
Agile Development And The Red Line: At A Point Of No Return
We’ve reached a point of no return. In the cloud industry, a culture has been established where everyone thinks they must innovate and deliver new features. It’s not only…
Survey: Doubt On Security Tools, Spending
A major new survey by the Ponemon Institute has found that over two-thirds of IT managers and security managers polled found some of their organization’s existing security precautions either…
Hacks for the Entrepreneurial Minded
An entrepreneurial-minded individual is someone who is flexible, always hustling, value-oriented and driven to achieve success. Working for themselves, they make decisions on the fly and are prepared to pivot…
2017 Open-Innovation Centers: Multi-faceted with New Business Model Focus
While 2016 saw innovation centers, intrapreneurship programs, corporate startups accelerators, and corporate FabLabs blossom, I expect 2017 to see the rise of a new kind of open-innovation centers: they…
What a Decade of Innovation Teaches Us
Almost every new innovation activity seems destined to experience some, if not all, of the same challenges and traps that previous innovation programs encountered, so it behooves us to document…
IoT And Big Data: Success Comes Down To A Solid Strategy
A Verizon report highlights how big data complexity and a shortage of data science talent are hurdles for an IoT implementation, but we also have to remember the key…
Succeeding with Outsourcing? Time to Reinvest for Success!
The never-ending recession mentality in recent years has led many U.S. apparel companies to view outsourcing solely as a cost-saving measure. With a hypersensitivity towards profit margins, these companies justify…
3 Business Strategies To Grow Your Startup
The following excerpt is from Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood’s book Simplify. Are there any viable non-simplifying strategies? Of course there are. Consider the furniture industry, which boasts tens of…
4 Product Management Mistakes That Will Drive You Crazy
It’s no secret that the life of project managers are intense — they essentially function as the CEO of their team, making sure that everything gets done at the…
IT Transformation Checklist: 10 Steps to Success
When launching a IT transformation project, there are some steps you definitely don’t want to take, and 10 steps that could lead to success. Here’s how not to set…
For whom do you create new products?
According to AcuPoll more than 95-percent of new products fail each year. This harrowing statistic should sound an alarm, one that says the way we approach the conceptualization and…