Innovation – A New Paradigm
I was thinking recently that the reason some people grapple with innovation with little success is because it requires a new paradigm, which is simply a big word that means a new perspective or new...
View ArticleGrowthToon™ – Globalize your business
Having a strong global market entry and access strategy requires commitment of time, resources, structure, and a willingness to be flexible to adapt your offerings and business processes to global...
View ArticleKFC’s Winning Recipe In China –“Go Global, Act Local”
The Growth Strategy Company shares KFC's market penetration success story in China. Continue reading →
View ArticleOrganize for Strategic Growth
Achieving and sustaining business growth is virtually impossible without collaboration. However, many companies are designed more for top-down command and control than vertical and horizontal...
View ArticleGrowthThinking: Building the New Growth Enterprise
In the new normal environment of economic displacement, uncertainty, structural change and complexity, one thing is clear: business growth cannot be left to chance. However, business growth will...
View ArticleDo Drones Hold the Key to Solving our Healthcare and Deficit Woes?
Value Innovation is a strategic concept that focuses on creating uncontested market space by making leaps in benefits while simultaneously reducing costs. At The Growth Strategy Co., we define value...
View Article2013 Chief Strategy Officer Survey Results Are In!
The Innovation Enterprise, an independent B2B multi-channel media brand focused in the information needs of Senior Executives, and The Growth Strategy Co., the leading provider of growth-focused...
View ArticleGrowthToon™: Design Unique Combinations
Companies don’t have to design a whole new product or service to be innovative or competitive. Combining the highest value features of existing products can create a unique value proposition. Designing...
View ArticleGrowthToon™: Differentiate from the Competition
Being focused on improving differentiation to enhance your competitive advantage can protect the core business, raise barriers to entry, increase revenue from existing sources and substantially deliver...
View ArticleGrowthToon™: Build Next Generation Platforms
Are you building Next Generation Platforms for business growth? Continue reading →
View ArticleGrowthToon™: Collaborate with supplier/partner networks
While partnering can provide cost reductions, there could be future competitive or quality exposure by outsourcing a capability or element of your value chain. As economies become more global, the...
View ArticleGrowthToon™: Package Data into Information
The ability for companies to share, store, compute and analyze huge amounts of data can transform the way customers live and work. Data, while valuable, is a commodity that can be replicated by...
View ArticleShifting to Ultimate Outcomes
We need to all get paid or rewarded far more on the value of the result from successful ultimate outcomes, judged by focusing only on the successful result of delivering to that real customer need.
View ArticleInnovation and Bridging the Generational Divide
How to Fine-Tune Working Relationships between Boomers and Millennials to Create Harmonious Innovation Teams The innovation book Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival...
View ArticleThe Only Three Swim Lanes that Matter to a Business
In the course of my training with business leaders, we inevitably come to the existential business question… “What is the purpose of a business?” This is a great question, and one with a very simple...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs Live in the Future
If you want to grow, don’t be what you are. Be what you aspire to be. Entrepreneurs live in the future. If you expect to innovate and grow, you have to. But if you’re growing a business, the vast...
View ArticleReal Magic: The Power of Words (Part Two)
Part Two of Two In Part One we explored how language and our relationship with words has limited the growth and development of organizations and human capacity. Now, we discover why expanding these...
View ArticleThe Biggest Impediment to Developing and Deploying Innovation
Command-and-control, top-down organizations have the most trouble innovating. In particular, the fearful mindsets that review, align, and sign off on “decks” to be presented to Vice President-level...
View ArticleGrowthToon™: Build Next Generation Platforms
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View ArticleGrowthToon™: Collaborate with supplier/partner networks
While partnering can provide cost reductions, there could be future competitive or quality exposure by outsourcing a capability or element of your value chain. As economies become more global, the...
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