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Book: Reshaping Strategy

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Strategy as practiced by companies today has many flaws. “Reshaping Strategy: Exploring the Content, Process and Context of Strategic Innovation” synthesizes more than 200 books, articles, research papers and thousands of pages on strategy, strategic innovation, blue ocean strategy, value innovation, disruptive innovation, business model innovation and related topics into a comprehensive framework, providing an [...]

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Putting it all together

There’s a lot of discussion going on on the relationship between Strategic Innovation, Blue Ocean Strategy and Business Model Innovation and how these concepts relate to each other. I gave it a shot. 

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When the Game gets Tough, Change the Game.

A recent study by The Boston Consulting Group and BusinessWeek identified that while business model innovators and product or process innovators both achieve a premium total shareholder return, business model innovators earned an average premium that was more than four times greater than that enjoyed by product or process innovators. 

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25 Ways to Reinvent your Business. Part 3/3

Part 1 of the reinvent your business series looked at “market innovation”, in part 2 I outlined 9 ways for “value innovation”. This final part will conclude the series with 8 ways to reinvent your business model. Essentialy the business model is about how to create, capture and deliver your value proposition. It’s about what [...]

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A Framework for Innovation

Although managers might know that innovation is the only way to attain competitive advantage, they seldom know where to begin. Innovation is still a black box. Leaders don’t know where to start, how to build the necessary capabilities or even what they want to reach. The common definition of innovation being implemented ideas customers are [...]

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Tiger to end his silence. What Accenture might have done better.

While this Tiger Woods story has not been that featured in Europe, I came across several articles this week while being in the US. Honestly I don’t care what Tiger did or did not do and whether he wants to share his motives or not. What I find interesting to look at though is how [...]

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Be Bold. Be Brave. Be Innovative.

I saw a presentation by Shaun Smith at the London Business Forum on his new book to be published towards the end of the year today. Smith argues that a major shift is happening in business and society currently and that organizations need to become bolder, braver and more innovative to remain relevant. One can’t [...]

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What is Strategy?

Nobody really knows actually. But here are a couple of thoughts that might help you to put things in perspective. The presentation has been viewed almost 20 000 times on slideshare…so I guess it must be of some value!

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25 Ways to Reinvent your Business. Part 2/3

In part 1 of the reinventing your business series, I outlined 1 general approach to business reinventing, and 7 ways to invent new markets and customer segments, we could call it “market innovation”. This post will focus on your value proposition and I will describe 9 ways to value innovation and provide inspiration on how to enhance the value you offer: “Value Innovation”.

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25 Ways to Reinvent your Business. Part 1/3

Any goals for 2010 yet? What about reinventing your business? Let me share 25 ways on how you can get started. This is the first post in a 3 part series on how to reinvent your business. The series is build around the who-what-how framework. Your business is defined by who you consider being your [...]

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