Martin Reeves makes a pitch for embracing play to spark innovative business ideas — and invites you to try out a series of imagination games.
123 In a recent BCG global survey, 90% of multinational companies indicated that they were planning to expand their activities in business ecosystems.
While much has been written about innovation and business models, we don’t have a playbook for what lies upstream of innovation: imagination.
Identifying the next big thing is often treated as an exercise in analyzing trends. But that’s misleading. By the time a trend is established and named, any opportunities it presents have probably been captured by competitors. In a new Harvard Business Review article we explain how to spot, understand and exploit “poignant anomalies” that have the potential to become a business opportunity.
Introducing new management ideas can be a slow process, with plenty of people resisting new ways of working. Christian Stadler suggests four ways to accelerate the generation of new ideas.
Business leaders accustomed to a world of clear boundaries, familiar competitive arenas, and traditional strategic planning must master new dimensions of competition to succeed in the coming decade.
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