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What is Innovation, Really?

Feb 23, 2021 By Brian Wallace

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As the saying goes – innovate or die. But what impact does innovation have in real life? Sure, it is fine to be creative but does that really make a difference? Research says that our average standard of living has increased substantially since we chose to innovate. An average household owns 1.88 cars, 90% of […]

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Don’t Innovate From Want–Do It From Need

Jan 4, 2021 By Dave Berkus

Most innovations come from responding to a customer’s needs, or finding a niche where products need improvement or extension.  It is rare to innovate using a blank sheet of paper in a room with bare walls and no other contributors. A thought exercise Imagine the room in which several graduate business school student groups have […]

Filed Under: Strategic Planning Tagged With: Innovation

Ready, Fire, Aim. Really?

Dec 4, 2020 By Dave Berkus

You’ve surely heard the variations on this theme.  “Ready, fire aim” was popular in the 1990’s, accredited to any of several authors.  I used the term to describe my efforts in the artificial intelligence field, experimenting with new devices, the lisp programming language, and our first trial installations.  It seemed an ideal way to describe […]

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Businesses Face Anti-Plastic Sentiment: How to Adapt

Oct 1, 2020 By Oliver Michaels

We’re beginning to see plastic differently. Thanks to campaigns about environmental issues including marine pollution and climate change, public opinion of single-use plastics is shifting. Over half of consumers now believe plastic to be “harmful”. Every business needs to take note of this, SMEs included. Consumers want to know that what they’re buying is sustainable […]

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Embracing the New Normal: How Disruptions Can Lead to Innovation

Jun 10, 2020 By Adhere Creative

COVID-19 has changed the way we live, possibly forever. It’s up to us to decide what to do moving forward. When is the least ideal time to buy a car? During a pandemic, when uncertainties abound and social distancing is the norm? I would’ve said yes…before I had to do it myself. Yet when my […]

Filed Under: Innovation, Run and Grow Tagged With: Innovation

What’s Your Covid-19 Pivot? We Want to Hear Your Story

May 1, 2020 By Lynda Bekore

As Covid-19 continues its unpredictable roller coaster ride, businesses find they have to re-invent themselves on a regular basis. Each locality, state, or region makes their own quarantine shut-down or reopen schedule and small businesses must adapt, slow down…or fail. So, we’d really like to know how you’re coping. Send your own business tale to […]

Filed Under: Run and Grow Tagged With: COVID-19, Innovation

Necessity is the Mother Of Invention for Epidemic Innovation

Apr 28, 2020 By Brian Wallace

Despite the catastrophic effects of epidemics that have occurred throughout history, they lead to the creation of some of the most ground-breaking and revolutionary discoveries, inventions, and famous poems and scientific theories. In the mid-1300s when the Black Death hit Europe, it was estimated to have killed from 30% all the way up to 60% […]

Filed Under: Covid-19, Leadership Tagged With: Innovation, Invention

7 Tips To Keep Your Team Ahead Of “Business As Usual”

Apr 13, 2020 By Marty Zwilling

Many small businesses are now realizing that “business as usual” might be gone forever. With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Entrepreneurs who are not listening, not engaging, and not changing are destined to be left behind even in the best of times. Business agility is defined as […]

Filed Under: Innovation, Run and Grow Tagged With: Agility, Innovation

How To Change Your Perspective And Create Innovation

Apr 7, 2020 By Marty Zwilling

In today’s fast moving world of business startups, learning trumps knowing every time. What established businesses know through experience keeps them from looking for the new and innovative ways to do what they do better, cheaper, and faster. I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowing down or buying their innovation through acquisition, rather than building […]

Filed Under: Personal Readiness, Startup Tagged With: Entrepreneurship, experts, Innovation

Process is the Foundation for Agility/Nimbleness

Feb 27, 2020 By Dave Brock

We want to be flexible, nimble, able to adapt to the circumstances, leap on an opportunity, respond quickly. We abhor process since that constrains our creativity and ability to innovate. Too often, when I talk to leaders and sales people about process, they cite some of the things outlined above as the reason they don’t […]

Filed Under: Sales Activities Tagged With: Innovation, Sales Process

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