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What It Takes To Stay Competitive

What It Takes To Stay Competitive

The image given below shows a 2×2 matrix with size on the y-axis and speed on the x-axis. Size can be represented as market share, revenue, or units sold. Speed is the speed of innovation of a company relative to the industry. When a company, product, or service is ahead of the competition, speed is [...]

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Startups Need “Killer Instinct”, Not “Killing It”

Startups Need “Killer Instinct”, Not “Killing It”

Popular culture continues to glamorize startups, often overlooking the harsh reality that 90 percent of them fail. There is so much fiction around start-ups, with successful one being celebrated, while losers get written off easily. Emotional travails of deciding what to build, how to build it, who to build it with, when, where, why, with [...]

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How To Pace, When To Pause And How Long To Persevere!!!

Is Creativity genetically encoded?  Can’t say Is Creativity magical ? Seems so… Since childhood, the itch has been there. Wanted to do something creative. However throughout my academic years, I was taught to develop left hemisphere of our brain, which is said to be more logical, analytical and objective. On the contrary I was completely [...]

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Personal Disruption With S-curve Mental Model

Personal Disruption With S-curve Mental Model

In complex systems like a business (or a brain), cause and effect may not always be as clear as the relationship between the light switch and the light bulb. There are time-delayed and time-dependent relationships in which huge effort may yield little in the near-term, or in which high output today may be the result [...]

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Cardinal Rules of Synchronous Customer and Product Development

Cardinal Rules of Synchronous Customer and Product Development

“In 90 days the team pivoted the product, saved a major account, captured a large order, cut schedule from 18 months to nine months, and developed virtual backlog. Two years after release, product market share was up by 30% to 70%. Twelve of 17 competitors were gone.  The division was the dominant global player.” Cardinal [...]

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