Monthly Archives: December 2011

Are You Creating or Replacing?

Are you creating something new or replacing something that’s already there? If you’re replacing, you need to do much different things than if you’re creating something new. Continue reading

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Disassemble and Re-Imagine!

If you’re an innovator and are bored with the status-quo there’s only one solution: Disassemble and Re-imagine. Continue reading

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M Porter on CNBC

Michael Porter who authored Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors, ”the” textbook on what gives companies competitive advantages.

Porter discussed competitiveness of the US business industry on CNBC earlier this year.

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Michael Porter Interview with Rowan Gibson

An Innovation Excellence Classic: From an interview with Rowan Gibson

AS WE ENTER the twenty-first century, there is a pressing need for clear strategies. Because unless companies have a clear vision about how they are going to be distinctly different and unique, offering something different than their rivals to some different group of customers, they are going to get eaten alive by the intensity of competition.
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Reordering the organization’s genetic code for innovation.

As we enter 2012, what really disappoints me is that we still have not cracked the innovation DNA code sufficiently to embed this within the organizations genetic principles, structures or systems for completing an everyday innovating business. Why is that?
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Innovations in Digital Learning in 2011

Despite the challenges, 2011 was a real turning point for innovations in learning. The shift to personal digital learning is on. Eleven trends marked 2011:
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