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In The Innovation Stack, Jim McKelvey explains how to “build an unbeatable business one crazy at a time.” He introduces a mindset and methodology that drive a process of stacking innovations. He focuses on four firms: Bank of Italy (later…
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Before there were vehicles and garages, there were sheds…and no doubt before them there were caves in which primal innovations such as fire, wheels, and spears were envisioned. One of the most famous modern locations was in Småland in southern…
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“Correlation is not causation, of course, but some of the world’s most successful companies are good at design.” So suggests Bennett Voyles in an article featured by LiveMint, published by HT Media. This company found its beginning in 1924 when…
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Strategy That Works: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi with Art Kleiner Harvard Business Review Press (2016) How and why getting strategy and execution in cohesive alignment “is a worthwhile legacy for any leader…
Read MoreIn Strategy That Works: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap, Paul Leinwand and Cesare R. Mainardi (with Art Kleiner) point out that two-thirds of executives say their organizations don’t have the capabilities to support their strategy. Leinwand and Mainardi…
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In Strategy That Works: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap, Paul Leinwand and Cesare R. Mainardi (with Art Kleiner) point out that two-thirds of executives say their organizations don’t have the capabilities to support their strategy. Leinwand and Mainardi…
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Trained as an anthropologist (Ph.D. University of Chicago), Grant McCracken has studied American culture and commerce for 25 years. He has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show and worked for Timberland, New York Historical Society, Diageo, IKEA, Sesame Street,…
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Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation, and Sustainability Faisal Hogue with Drake Baer McGraw-Hill (2014) How and why having more and better connections creates more and better opportunities Faisal Hoque wrote this book…
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What Great Brands Do: The Seven Brand-Building Principles that Separate the Best from the Rest Denise Lee Yohn Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2014) How and why your brand “is the experience that is actually delivered and communicated through everything you do”…
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Stacking Innovations at Bank of Italy
In The Innovation Stack, Jim McKelvey explains how to “build an unbeatable business one crazy idea at a time.” He introduces a mindset and methodology that drive a process of stacking sequential innovations. He focuses on four firms: Bank of…
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