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Sustaining Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

YoungUpstarts

Innovation not only impacts global economies and business models, but the quality of life of people. A sustaining innovation targets demanding, high-end customers with better performance than what was previously available. Incumbents, chasing higher profitability in more-demanding segments, tend not to respond vigorously.

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Sustaining Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

The Startup Magazine

Innovation not only impacts global economies and business models, but the quality of life of people. Scholar and innovation expert Clayton Christensen explains it this way: A sustaining innovation targets demanding, high-end customers with better performance than what was previously available. Advancing Your Business Knowledge.

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Servant Leadership In Action

YoungUpstarts

by Ken Blanchard, author of the best selling “ The New One Minute Manager ” and the new “ Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results “ To me, servant leadership is the only way to guarantee great relationships and great results. Answered by Stephen M.

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[Review] Out-Executing The Competition

YoungUpstarts

It’s no surprise then that many of those lessons in his book “ Out-Executing the Competition ” revolve around leadership, although there’s also plenty about business strategy, business transformation and the need for communication.

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Business Week Report on “Radical Future of R&D” Misses Critical Capital Markets Link in Innovation Ecosystem

Pascal's View

The cover story of the September 7 issue of Business Week reports on the “ Radical Future of R&D “, focusing on the internationalization of research and development led by global corporations such as IBM and Hewlett Packard. In the 1990s the U.S. economy created a net 22 million jobs, or 2.2 million a year.

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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

crowdSPRING Blog

A social translation program is one way you can make your website more accessible to a global audience for less. Yes, we’ll always want to encourage higher quality, but it won’t matter if we have crappy demand. A social translation program is one way you can make your website more accessible to a global audience for less.

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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

We need our team members to have sustainable work / life balance or risk losing them to another less demanding industry all together. Thank you, global meltdown! I have been swinging for the fences for several years as a young entrepreneur at the executive leadership level for several start-ups and most recently starting my own.