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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. He offers a unique perspective on innovation and winning in the marketplace. Would you share that briefly?

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Bookseller Leadership Mistakes

Coaching Tip

The new retail-oriented CEO decided to close down their website, fire their internal website experts and contract out information technology by having their books sold through Amazon.com. He focused his energies on the emerging digital books business and building a family of dedicated Nook digital devices, including color tablets.

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Planting Entrepreneurial Innovation in Inner Cities

Harvard Business Review

Today, inner cities are "in" — innovative, hip hotbeds of convenient culture, commerce and connection. The centripetal force of today's cities is pulling the ambitious and educated back in, and increasing cities' innovative capacity, without sacrificing (at least some would argue) their inclusiveness.

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Are Your Employees Drivers or Victims of Process Innovations?

Harvard Business Review

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. MORE ON KNOCKING DOWN BARRIERS TO INNOVATION.

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Stock Buybacks Aren’t Hurting Innovation

Harvard Business Review

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. The list goes on. Not so fast. However, not all investments are equal.

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Bridging the Gap Between IT and Your Business

Harvard Business Review

For the past several years we have watched with increasing dismay at the increasing chasm between information technology (IT) groups and their business counterparts. The business complains that IT doesn’t understand the business, consistently overpromises and under-delivers, and slows innovation.

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The Sectors Where the Internet of Things Really Matters

Harvard Business Review

The Internet of Things is emerging as the third wave in the development of the internet. Innovative products like fitness trackers and Google’s Nest thermostats are demonstrating the potential for both consumers and enterprises. Information & technology Internet'