When planning or navigating a pivot, how do you know if you are pivoting in the right direction? Answer simple questions to validate your pivot and execute on four actions to help create speed-to-market. We are hearing the word “pivot” a lot these days. The idea is that business conditions have changed dramatically and, therefore,…
While the pandemic has been difficult for all us economically, as business owners, we never run out of opportunities. No matter the business climate, there is always a chance to do something new and something better—you just have to find it. This has never proven truer than now, with the way business has been forced…
A story from the 2019 Innovator’s Advantage Academy with Better Business Bureau Great West + Pacific. Imagine an iceberg floating in the middle of the sea. Above the surface sits the impressive tip and rugged edges. What you do not see is what rests below the surface—a massive glacier with peaks and valleys and mass…
The single most important mandate of innovation is to create new value. Similarly, one of the mandates of entrepreneurialism is to deliver value. Yet, innovation and entrepreneurialism are not necessarily the same. As a matter of fact, they are two different subject areas that require distinctive mindsets, skills, passions, and behaviors. One of the biggest…
These days you hear and read a lot about innovation. It’s the common buzzword and there are constantly new articles and blogs written about it, but most of it is simply a rehashing of what has been written in the past. There’s very little new thought going into innovation, which is ironic if you think…
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