Growth Strategies

Growth strategies are methods businesses use to expand market share, revenues, and competitive standing through organic or inorganic means.

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Initiative

An initiative is a strategic action to drive change and achieve business goals.

GANTT Chart

A GANTT Chart is a visual project management tool outlining tasks or events in time sequence on a horizontal bar chart.

Creative Strategy

Creative Strategy: A roadmap blending imaginative thinking with business goals to craft novel and effective solutions to complex challenges.

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Career Challenges – 6 Ideas when Losing the Love for What You Do

Career Challenges – 6 Ideas when Losing the Love for What You Do

When you start losing interest in your job, try these 6 ideas to regain your passion for your work: partner with someone who loves what you do, add something else you love into your job, do something else entirely, don’t worry about it, keep going out of duty or make a break.

Career Change – 4 Career Tips for a Mid-Career Professional

Career Change – 4 Career Tips for a Mid-Career Professional

Learn how mid-career professionals can successfully make a career change with these four tips from a Brainzooming blog article.

Crossing the Chasm of Complexity

Crossing the Chasm of Complexity

Innovation is a U-shaped process that can be challenging in the middle. To get through, you need to rely on instinct, momentum, courage, faith, determination, and compassion.

Developing Innovation Growth Boards: Insights From Practice

Developing Innovation Growth Boards: Insights From Practice

Moody's Analytics has successfully adopted innovation growth boards to promote accountability and metered funding for early-stage product ideas within the organization.

Driving Innovation With Corporate Foresight At Intel

Driving Innovation With Corporate Foresight At Intel

Innovation Rockstars Podcast interviewed John Miranda, Director of Intel’s Data Center and AI Strategy Office, discussing Moore's Law, sustainability, generative AI, and Intel's Corporate Foresight Program.

Four ways ideas are selected for implementation

Four ways ideas are selected for implementation

Generating ideas is easy, but turning them into products requires senior leader buy-in. Ideas can be converted through Assignment, Sponsorship, Adoption, or Spinout, and organizations need to understand which method(s) work best for them.

Future Trends of Innovation Management

Future Trends of Innovation Management

Innovation management trends for 2020 include increased traceability and cloud capabilities, as well as a move towards expanded leadership support and resources.

Growth through innovation: Execute on the growth goals

Growth through innovation: Execute on the growth goals

Innovation plays a vital role in business growth. This article highlights the importance of innovation, its benefits and the key variables required for driving growth through innovation.

How do we measure success in our digital transformation? A journey of discovery

How do we measure success in our digital transformation? A journey of discovery

Measuring the success of digital transformation is difficult as each organization is different and has unique obstacles to overcome. Siemens has formed an Influencer Community to gain diverse opinions and perspectives on their transformation journey.

How the 70-20-10 rule of innovation applies in business

How the 70-20-10 rule of innovation applies in business

The 70-20-10 rule is a guideline embraced by large corporations for innovation investments. This article explains what it is, how it can be applied, and the benefits of using it.

Innovation-Led Transformation: delivering the next, now

Innovation-Led Transformation: delivering the next, now

Innovation projects have a 96% failure rate due to a lack of discipline in scaling and delivering projects, rather than a lack of creativity. Companies need to build capabilities and leadership to manage innovation-led transformation for growth opportunities.

Innovation Tug of War

Innovation Tug of War

Building innovation ecosystems will be the key to creating a sustainable competitive advantage. To achieve this, organizations need to design the right ecosystem model that fits their business and involves the community.

Lean Scaleup: Set Your Corporate Ventures Up For Success

Lean Scaleup: Set Your Corporate Ventures Up For Success

Corporate innovators must take specific actions, including adapting to budget cuts and identifying new opportunities, before implementing the Lean Scaleup framework to accelerate and scale chosen corporate startups and ventures.

Making what life needs next

Making what life needs next

Six shifts in innovation management can help companies create impactful solutions that keep up with the ever-changing market demands.

Me, We!

Me, We!

Brexit has led to disconnection from Europe and legitimation of racism. It's a mindboggling turmoil inflicted on global markets and only a start.

Mind the (Agility) Gap

Mind the (Agility) Gap

Lord Young's report 'Growing Your Business' emphasizes the importance of small companies in generating growth and employment. It proposes solutions to bridge the gap between large and small businesses.

More efficiency or more innovation?

More efficiency or more innovation?

Efficiency and innovation are essential for every company to grow, however, businesses tend to prioritize efficiency over innovation, which eventually leads to inefficiency.

Moving innovation into our Core- Part One

Moving innovation into our Core- Part One

Innovation needs to be more central to the thinking, decision making, and management of organizations in order to provide sustainable growth. A holistic enterprise-wide innovation process is needed to achieve this.

New Work Management App: Planning, Teamwork and Personal To-Dos in One Tool

New Work Management App: Planning, Teamwork and Personal To-Dos in One Tool

Projectplace releases new app for work and project management with a fixed price model for teams.

Overcommitting and Underutilizing Resources is Risky Business

Overcommitting and Underutilizing Resources is Risky Business

Companies that overcommit and underutilize resources risk missing the market and impacting their profitability. However, top performers who have a clear view of resource capacity and conduct continuous capacity planning are better positioned for accelerated innovation and competitive differentiation.

Practical Guide for Decision-Makers and Problem-Solvers

Practical Guide for Decision-Makers and Problem-Solvers

Effective Decision-Making: How To Make Better Decisions Under Uncertainty And Pressure is a new book that provides 44 actionable tools for making better decisions.

Product Portfolio Management: Connecting a Vision to Strategy and Budgets

Product Portfolio Management: Connecting a Vision to Strategy and Budgets

Managing early stage product concepts and selecting the best ones is crucial for successful product portfolio management. Here's how to effectively connect long-term goals to day-to-day management.

Remember that Time the Suez Canal Proved Your SDLC Point?

Remember that Time the Suez Canal Proved Your SDLC Point?

The recent Suez Canal blockage is a reminder that production issues cost more than just the immediate expense, but also the value of the item being produced.

Research Reveals Success Factors of Fast-Growing Startups

Research Reveals Success Factors of Fast-Growing Startups

Experienced leadership and timing are key factors in the success of fast-growing startups, according to new research by THNK and Deloitte.

The Importance of B2B Marketers and Their Impact on the Company

The Importance of B2B Marketers and Their Impact on the Company

B2B companies need to prioritize their marketing department and strategies to achieve business growth.

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The Role of Spreadsheets in a Long-Range Planning Process—Part 1

Spreadsheets are essential for financial planning, but can become cumbersome in complex organizational structures. A better tool can enhance their functionality.

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The Strategic Management and Innovation

Learn how strategic innovation can help businesses reinvent their corporate strategy and drive growth through strategic management and innovation courses.

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Top 10 Biggest Innovation Trends That Will Shape the Future

This article discusses the top ten innovation trends that will shape the future and their potential benefits for businesses.

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Understanding product portfolio management framework

Learn about product portfolio management frameworks - strategies for selecting and managing product tasks while maximizing company resources.

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Use This Template as a Calendar for Innovation

Innovation programs struggle to keep engagement due to lengthy processes, however, adopting a mixed-use format can keep innovation ongoing. Seasonal interests or thematic trends can be used as a template for shorter term innovation campaigns.

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Using Agile Product Portfolio Management

Agile portfolio management is crucial for organizations to respond quickly to changes in the business environment. This article discusses how to apply an Agile mindset to portfolio management, construct an Agile portfolio, and manage it effectively.

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Using Growth Boards to Drive Intentional Innovation at Scale

Learn how growth boards can provide consistent, sustainable, and transparent decision-making to support internal startups from ideas to scaled products and services.

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What does it mean to be innovative and why does it matter?

Innovation is the key to thriving in any market. Find out how to change your mindset to be innovative as an individual and as a company to drive change and meet your goals.

What Goldfish Teach Us About Innovation

What Goldfish Teach Us About Innovation

Innovation teams need to acclimate themselves in different contexts to succeed, just like fish adapting to breathe air.

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What is the 70-20-10 Rule of Innovation and How to Use It

The 70-20-10 model of innovation resource allocation can help businesses in managing and coordinating their innovation efforts. By investing 70% of resources and human capital in the core business, 20% in new developments, and the remaining 10% on new ideas, companies can spur innovation and drive growth.

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What Is The Value of a Business Ecosystem?

Business ecosystems are becoming crucial for companies to maintain their positions in the new business environment. Collaboration, innovation, effective use of technology resources, and accelerated learning are key goals for business ecosystems.

What the World Needs Now - Strategic Thinking from TEDxKC, Part I

What the World Needs Now - Strategic Thinking from TEDxKC, Part I

TEDxKC presented global strategies on innovation and personal success, emphasizing the importance of strategic thinking, diverse perspectives, and rapid trial and improvement.

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When Terrible Things Happen To Good Innovation Projects

Innovation and transformation are essential for the long-term success of a business, but many ideas fail due to mismanagement. By separating innovation into ideation, incubation, and acceleration phases, and considering uncertainty, organizations can eliminate obstacles and improve innovation efforts.

You Can Teach Old Dogs New Tricks — With Innovation

You Can Teach Old Dogs New Tricks — With Innovation

Innovation is essential for businesses to avoid becoming commodities. Here are six steps to spark innovation in your company.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don’t

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don’t

How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?

Innovation Sucks!: Time to Think Differently

Innovation Sucks!: Time to Think Differently

This book challenges some of the ‘ingrained truths’ of innovation and suggests a different approach.

Reinventing Organizations

Reinventing Organizations

Bring meaning and inspiration into your organization with this practical tools for contemporary forms of organizing and leading.

PA Consulting

PA Consulting

Bringing Ingenuity to Life. Growth strategy through disruptive innovation and strategic transformation

Business Problem Definition The Innovation Toolkit

Business Problem Definition The Innovation Toolkit

Articulating business problems with clarity and consistency is essential: it empowers people and teams to decouple problems from solution ideas and set the right focus

Innovation Learning Card

Innovation Learning Card

Capture insights from your experiments with the help of learning cards and thereby prove or disprove your hypotheses based on data

The Corporate Innovation Canvas

The Corporate Innovation Canvas

This is a canvas a corporation can use to explore, organize, and, most importantly, focus their target innovation outcomes. The audience I’ve tested this with are corporations with a market cap $1B