How to Create And Communicate Your Acquisition Strategy

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Let’s face it, innovating is hard. Not only is it hard it’s also expensive, time consuming and full of risk. For many large organizations facing up to these realities can be gut-wrenching, especially if your competitor already has a head start. For this and other reasons exploring an acquisition rather than building something in house […]

Customer Development: How To Understand, Empathize And Validate Ideas With Your Customer

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At its core, innovation is about solving someone’s problem. To do it right, you need to understand the person and their job to be done better than they understand it themselves. You need to know their motivations, frustrations and inspirations. This ability to understand your customers needs better than they understand themselves is what separates inventors […]

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Apple Watch: Innovation That Starts With Why

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As the Apple Watch approaches public release multiple news outlets are reporting that demand for the heralded device is far outstripping supply. With an estimated 1 Million pre-orders booked on April 10th, the first day of selling, and an expected avalanche of additional orders expected prior to April 24th, the official launch date, Apple’s world-class […]

If We Build, They Will Come: The Story of Webvan

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In 1989 the blockbuster movie “Field of Dreams” captured two uniquely American ideals: baseball and taking risks to build your dream. The classic line “If you build it, he will come,” emboldened a poor Iowa farmer, played by Kevin Costner, to build a baseball diamond against all odds and at risk of nearly bankrupting his business. Fortunately […]

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Is Your Innovation Idea A Vitamin Or A Painkiller?

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Is your new innovation idea a vitamin or painkiller? Vitamins are things people should buy but tend to put off. Painkillers are things people buy the instant they become aware of them because they solve an immediate pain. If you’re idea is a vitamin, are there ways it could be enhanced so that it becomes a […]

 
 
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