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Imitating Innovators is Smart Business
The truth is, making an innovation better or taking it to market in a more effective way is often what brings greater success than coming up with the innovation itself.

Computing Success: How Dell Came Out On Top
To become a success, Dell says, “You just need a framework and a dream.”

The Source of Oracle’s Wisdom: How Ellison Achieved Success
“There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong,” says Ellison. “‘Why did you climb the mountain?' ‘I climbed the mountain because it was there.’ That's utter nonsense…You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.”
Lesson #4: Keep Your Pulse on the Market
“No one is as sensitive to public taste as us,” says McMahon. “We have our own focus group 200 times a year. We're about what people want.”
Lesson #4: In Order to Get Ahead, You Must Take the Lead
“It's not like you just sit back and eventually it's going to happen,” says Case. “It's going to happen when people make it happen, and you have to kind of have a strategy that is pragmatic at one level, so you can hang in for the long run, but proactive in another level, so you can actually try to accelerate the pace that it's going to take for something to take off.”
Inside Intel: Success Factors of a Company that Inspired an Industry
Today, Intel is ranked 49th on Fortune 500’s list of the top revenue grossing companies. Noyce and Moore may no longer be in charge of the daily running of the business they first founded in 1968; however, their impact on not only the company, but also the entire industry can still be felt. The maker of motherboard chipsets, network cards, flash memory drives, graphic chips, embedded processors and more, Intel is an innovator and a leader in the world of electronics and computing. How did two scientists who knew nothing about business become two of the most successful examples of entrepreneurship in history?

Steve Jobs Apple
He might have been just 21 years old when he founded the company, but under Steve Jobs, Apple grew to become a leader and an innovator in the global computer, software, and electronics industry. In fact, the company is ranked number 159 on the Fortune 500 annual ranking of America’s largest corporations for 2006, with over $13.9 billion in revenues and almost 20,000 employees. Today, Jobs continues to serve as the company’s Chief Executive Officer.

The Trouble with \"Out of the Box\" Thinking
In an interview in Fortune magazine, writer Michael Lewis nails something important about the current ardor for innovators and entrepreneurs:
The Art of Innovation
I'm getting tired of writing about lies, so today I'm covering truths. Specifically, the truths of innovation. I hold these truths to not be self-evident; hence we see so little innovation.
The Seven Sins of Solutions
I introduced you to Matt May in January. He’s the author of The Elegant Solution and the ChangeThis manifesto called Elegant Solutions: Breakthrough Thinking the Toyota Way. He added a new manifesto called Mind of the Innovator: Taming the Traps of Traditional Thinking. Here’s an excerpt for you:
Turning Problems into Marketing Strategies
Most industries impose an unseen tax on participants trying to stand out, go against that grain or do the right thing or hard thing.
Does industrial theatre really help learning?
When we look at corporate and adult training we find many frameworks and even many more products to choose from. One thing that we don't often find is a clear strategy and appreciation for the science and theory behind the chosen framework and style. KOLB is regarded by many as the thought leader on the topic of modern experiential learning. His learning model, although not widely acknowledged, has become the most commonly used and or adapted of its kind. So much so that there is very little out there that is really new. Now we are discovering developments in our application of inductrial theatre that are growing from success to success.

Promote Work-Life Balance to Retain and Motivate Employees
As a manager, you may cringe when you hear the phrase "Work-Life Balance," which is viewed by many employers as a code phrase for "work less." But is the trend toward employees demanding more balance between their careers and their other obligations and interests entirely negative for employers? Viewed from a positive perspective, Work-Life Balance can be one of your best tools to retain and motivate your employees.
Why Companies Fail and 16 Leadership Tips to Preserve the Union!
Recently I got into a discussion with employees of a firm I am working with and they identified what they do not appreciate in their leaders. They had identified the major reasons most leaders fail and suffer the consequences of high staff turnover. Here are 16 tips to help you develop a healthier leadership style.
How to Create a a Public Relations Plan
Good public relations is an art of sorts and requires some research, thought and planning—but not necessarily expense—at any level.

industrial theatre can help adult and workplace learning
Does Indutrial Theatre help in learning? Can this mode of communication address both adult and workplace learning? We share some of the theory behind the art and the science behind our successes. Motivating people to change and helpning organisations develop peak performing cultures requires behaviour communication strategies that work. Industrial theatre can be implemented in a learning environment to facilitate an active learning experience. Theatre can bridge language and cultural devides. Our greatest moment is to share in a moment of personal discovery.

Getting investment from BBC's Dragons Den
In August 2008, Buggyboot creators Charlotte Evans and Carolyn Jarvis appeared in BBC's Dragons' Den TV series to seek investment for their business. Charlotte and Carolyn made a spirited presentation, which they describe as being one of the most challenging and nerve-wracking pitches they've ever given. After demonstrating the product and explaining the business, Charlotte and Carolyn secured the full amount of funding they sought and the support of a Dragon - Deborah Meaden. Read more how they got started
Why Companies Go Bust – 10 Tips To Rescue It
More companies are going bust in this economic downturn. You need to read this before you become one of them.
Is Your Godfather An Angel?
The traditional stereotype of the innovator is that of an eccentric, slightly unworldly Absent Minded Professor, so caught up in the beauty he finds in his work that he neglects everything else around him.
The Secret Of Great Ideas
Many entrepreneurs spend their lives looking for the One Big Idea that will make them rich.
Franchise and the Risk of Failure
Failure is definitely a real possibility in franchising no matter how skilled a person is, especially since failure rates for small businesses are rather high, particularly in the United States.

Do You Have The Courage To Be An Extraordinary Leader?
Learn the qualities it takes to rise to the top from the President of Ikea North America
Innovative Knowledge Acquisition from Web Videos
This article showcases emerging strategies for learning through web based videos.

Is Ford's auto-xchange the "Real Deal?" (Survey Response 5)
In a recent video that was released by The Ford Motor Company, Ford's Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Jim Yost indicated that the company has to "share information in real-time" and therefore can no longer use "the sequential processes” in which there were many “handoffs" and "transfers of information." Yost also emphasized the fact that Ford needs to "integrate much more closely with their customers, supply base and even internally," as well as stressing the importance of making information available to multiple levels of their supply base "simultaneously," thereby eschewing the current "cascade processes that might take days, weeks and even months" to disseminate. To enable you to respond to this question, you can access both the video as well as the corresponding article by contacting the author.
Is Ford's auto-xchange the "Real Deal?" (Survey Response 4)
In a recent video that was released by The Ford Motor Company, Ford's Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Jim Yost indicated that the company has to "share information in real-time" and therefore can no longer use "the sequential processes” in which there were many “handoffs" and "transfers of information." Yost also emphasized the fact that Ford needs to "integrate much more closely with their customers, supply base and even internally," as well as stressing the importance of making information available to multiple levels of their supply base "simultaneously," thereby eschewing the current "cascade processes that might take days, weeks and even months" to disseminate. To enable you to respond to this question, you can access both the video as well as the corresponding article by contacting the author.
The Greening of Procurement: How Social Consciousness is Re-Shaping Procurement Practices
Cannibals With Forks? “In our rapidly evolving capitalist economies, where it is in the natural order of things for corporations to devour competing corporations, for industries to carve up and digest other industries, one emerging form of capitalism with a fork – sustainable capitalism – would certainly constitute real progress.” From Cannibals With Forks – The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business John Elkington Capstone Publishing Limited, Oxford, 1997

Law 5: How to Create Value
Value is created when you successfully find a way to provide customers with services and solutions that solve their problems. We will be successful in business to the degree to which we render service that exceeds customer’s expectations. Value therefore is the ability to understand what’s going on in the minds of our customers.

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Lesson #3: Use Your Imagination
“I believe in being an innovator,” said Disney. “Tomorrow can be a wonderful age.”

Inside Intel: Success Factors of a Company that Inspired an Industry
Today, Intel is ranked 49th on Fortune 500’s list of the top revenue grossing companies. Noyce and Moore may no longer be in charge of the daily running of the business they first founded in 1968; however, their impact on not only the company, but also the entire industry can still be felt. The maker of motherboard chipsets, network cards, flash memory drives, graphic chips, embedded processors and more, Intel is an innovator and a leader in the world of electronics and computing. How did two scientists who knew nothing about business become two of the most successful examples of entrepreneurship in history?

Steve Jobs Apple
He might have been just 21 years old when he founded the company, but under Steve Jobs, Apple grew to become a leader and an innovator in the global computer, software, and electronics industry. In fact, the company is ranked number 159 on the Fortune 500 annual ranking of America’s largest corporations for 2006, with over $13.9 billion in revenues and almost 20,000 employees. Today, Jobs continues to serve as the company’s Chief Executive Officer.

The Seven Sins of Solutions
I introduced you to Matt May in January. He’s the author of The Elegant Solution and the ChangeThis manifesto called Elegant Solutions: Breakthrough Thinking the Toyota Way. He added a new manifesto called Mind of the Innovator: Taming the Traps of Traditional Thinking. Here’s an excerpt for you:
Is Your Godfather An Angel?
The traditional stereotype of the innovator is that of an eccentric, slightly unworldly Absent Minded Professor, so caught up in the beauty he finds in his work that he neglects everything else around him.
The John Lewis effect – eat, sleep and breathe your brand values
In a recent speech on resolving the UK’s economic crisis, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg referenced national department store, John Lewis, as an exemplary example of a share scheme which its staff enjoy and as a blueprint the UK would do well in copying. This got me to thinking about the often referenced John Lewis, as not only a fair employer, but also a trusted retail brand and innovator in sales and marketing. Below I have outlined a number of observations that if followed, brands could implement for better internal and external communications.
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