Tag Archives: Innovation Strategy

5 element model

The 5 Elements: A Holistic Framework To Assessing Whether To Start A Business Or Strategically Innovate From An Existing Entity Instead

We have all heard stories about setting up office space at the old shed (that also housed your grandparents CD recorder) or in a shamble stock garage at the back… Read more »

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connected strategies drive innovation

Connected Strategies Drive Seismic Shifts In Customer Co-Creation, Engagement Marketing and Product Development

As internet and mobile technologies continue to coalesce and changes in customer service delivery facilitate digital interactions underpinned by low friction methods of connectivity; enterprises today are building stronger and… Read more »

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market creating innovation

Market Creating Innovations Catalyses Economic Growth: An Outline For Emerging Economies

How can one find serious growth and market development opportunities in economies characterised by the polarities of extreme poverty, lack of infrastructure and institutions, little or no data about consumer… Read more »

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knowledge management strategy

Simple Principals In Knowledge Management Inspire Breakthrough Innovation

Most enterprises have a single operating system (the organisational chart) and according to John Kotter’s book XLR8, this is essential to ‘keeping the trains running’ however, fails at encouraging breakthrough… Read more »

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The Seven Artefacts of Self Organisation – Tools For Managing Complexity Adaptive Systems

Today’s managers operate in a highly interconnected, volatile and complex environment where the use of traditional concepts, tools and frameworks rooted on classical and behavioural schools of thought fail in… Read more »

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thealphaswarmer

An Innovation and Learning Framework for Enterprises for Business Model Evolution

In a major series launch of thealphaswarmer_frameworks series, I am presenting an organisational capability development and project leadership model that if embraced wholeheartedly, will result in rapid levels of innovation… Read more »

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Disruptive Innovation Aims To Bring Consumption From Non-Consumption Contexts

Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen fathered the term disruptive innovation in 1995 whilst collectively and insightfully studying and evaluating case studies across the telecommunication, healthcare, technology, consumer goods and electronic industries…. Read more »

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thealphaswarmer insights and commentaries

Balancing Tension: The Dynamic Coordinator Role Within Innovation Systems

One of my favourite books of all time has to be Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Timbles 10 Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution. Within the nomenclature, the authors… Read more »

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Evoking Entrepreneurial Culture Through Strategic Experiments – IUP Effective Executive Journal 2013

After much retrospect, thinking and insight – I thought it would be relevant to launch thealphaswarmer throwback series. These comprise of articles, writings and various other literature that was previously… Read more »

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Book Review: Buy Me – New Ways To Get Customers To Choose Your Product And Ignore The Rest.

Ive just started reading Marshal Cohens book, titled Buy Me: New Ways To Get Customers To Choose Your Product And Ignore The Rest and so far, its been an invaluable… Read more »

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