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Are You At Fault?
In 1906, there was a significant earthquake in San Francisco. 30,000 people died. In 1906, scientists couldn’t predict earthquakes very accurately, and although it was known that San Francisco was...
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3 Entrepreneurial Approaches to Drive Growth
This week we gave a rapid fire talk at the 2012 Market Research in the Mobile World Conference on Harnessing Entrepreneurial Approaches to Drive Innovation in Market Research. We shared three...
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10 Foundational Books for Driving Sustained Growth
As a recent HBR blog post reminded us, deep, broad reading habits are often a defining characteristic of our greatest leaders and can catalyze insight, innovation, empathy and personal effectiveness....
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The Evolution of Functional Leadership
There’s a fundamental shift underway, underwritten by transformative technologies, unprecedented global competition and ever-increasing customer/ consumer expectations. This type of broad-scale change...
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Here’s a talk we gave at the Cincinnati AMA Market Research Special Interest Group on The Five Innovation Imperatives for the MR Industry. Ended up being a lot of fun with lots of great discussion....
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3 Types of Garages for Driving Innovation Results
Inspired by the impact of legendary entrepreneurs Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the garage is an important metaphor that represents renewal and reinvention of our organizations....
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The 2013 Garage Review
We wanted to start off the year with some inspiring stories of organizations embracing the change that has become the new constant in today’s market, pushing the boundaries of their industries and...
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Business Model Innovation Trend: Anytime, Anywhere
Technology has increasingly been teaching consumers that they can get answers as soon as they ask questions and get responses to their Facebook posts within seconds; instant gratification is clearly...
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Business Model Innovation Workshop Series
None of us intend for our business to be down, flat or not growing enough to hit aggressive goals. The old strategies of cost-cutting, price increases and re-organization just aren’t sufficient in...
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P&G Job Cuts, Top 5 Opportunites for Professional Service Firms
Today, P&G released news that they are ahead of plan in their job cuts. Professional service firms working with big companies, like P&G, that are experiencing job and budget cut-backs, are in a...
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Netflix Prioritizes Innovation
We often use Netflix as a great example of a company that was founded because they challenged an industry business model. They re-invented how we “rent” movies. No sooner than they did, they had to...
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Analogs: The Secret Sauce Behind Great Ideas
There is a secret sauce behind most great ideas. It’s what enables that seemingly elusive spark, creative imagination or strategic mind that seems to find the next big idea and successfully...
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Teaching Analogs, Ideation & Business Models to Xavier Social Media Marketing...
Impressed. That’s how I felt walking away from the class I guest lectured at last night, a group of creative and engaged Xavier Social Media Marketing Students with a professor, Matthew Dooley, who...
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Three New Ideas for How Often to Do Ideation
Most companies we work with tend to take on a BIG ideation workshop every 12-18 months. Their intentions are good. They want to fill up a 5-7 year master plan with consumer relevant ideas for...
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Lean into Real-Time Brand Building
Real-time branding is quickly becoming the new norm for our generation of instant-gratification-seeking consumers. Specifically, leveraging widespread social media enables brands to communicate, build...
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Inaugural Garage Group Advisory Board to Guide Expansion & Growth
We’re thrilled to announce the formation of our inaugural Garage Group Advisory Board. Our new board of advisors share a proven ability to guide companies in periods of significant growth and expansion...
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What Corporate Line-Extenders Can Learn from Evernote
We recently ran across a write up of Evernote’s “5% problem”. This tale of an entrepreneurial venture is a nice analog for existing brands from established companies. Evernote is a prime example of a...
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Lessons Learned from the Uber Rebranding Flop
To stay relevant in our rapidly-advancing world, brands need to keep two steps ahead of the competition. But, change for the sake of change can lead to trouble. Uber learned this the hard way at the...
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5 Smart Ways to Move from Multi-Channel to Omni-Channel
Customer expectations are simultaneously pulling retailers in opposite directions. The demand for speed and convenience, as well as curation and experiential service, makes it difficult to invest and...
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5 Corporates Borrowing from The Startup Playbook
Startup companies have flooded the market with work processes that happen faster, better utilize technology and place ideas in consumers’ hands more frequently during the innovation cycle. The line...
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