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How to Beat Your Competition by Innovating in Ways They Can’t Copy

The national retailer Urban Outfitters has increased its revenues by 500% in the last 10 years, expanding to nearly $3 billion today from less than $500 million a decade ago. Not only does the company grow faster than its peers, it is also more profitable, averaging 21% profit margins for the past five years, versus […]

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This Is What Makes an Idea Great

Generating ideas is wonderful. Remember those great EUREKA moments under the shower, while driving or just talking to others? Unfortunately, the hangover is always later when you present your ideas to others. They are often less enthusiast than you and raise a lot of “BUT”… questions. Or everybody within your organization says it’s a great idea, […]

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Do or Die: The Realities of Change

In business, there are really only two choices: do something or do nothing. One choice leads to growth and sustainability and the other, well, allows more room in the marketplace since there is one less player in the game. Every organization eventually faces the truth, change is the only constant. If an organization fails to […]

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Flevy Author Spotlight: Our Interview with Breakthrough Strategy Expert Dr. Stephen Sweid

Dr. Stephen Sweid is a senior business and management consultant, researcher, and trainer with over 20 years consulting and research experience across a wide spectrum of industries.  He brings a unique, global perspective, having worked with many organizations from all over the world, including Europe, the U.S., Middle East, and Far East. He has also published a series of training guides […]

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Flevy Author Spotlight: Our Interview with Strategic Planning Specialist, Anthony Gable

Anthony Gable is an expert in the field of Strategic Planning and is highly effective at both teaching and facilitating the process.  He has spent 3 decades specializing in this discipline. Most recently, Mr. Gable has further refined the process through the integration and unification of both old and newer currently accepted strategic planning procedures that […]

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Growth Hacking Tools for B2B Marketers

Few years ago, when I first time heard about growth hacking, I thought it’s just a buzzword; a startup jargon used only in San Francisco by guys with $3,000 suits and bare feet. But I was wrong! Growth hacking has become an essential element of starting and growing a new business. Therefore, I started learning […]

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Our Interview with the Co-founders of TheConsultantLounge, the One-stop Hub for Consultants

We recently had the opportunity to speak with the two co-founders of TheConsultantLounge.com, Laura Woodroof (picture on the right below) and Martina Segerer.   TheConsultantLounge is an online and offline community for smart and passionate management consultants who were looking to expand their network and share their experiences across the broader consulting ecosystem. Both Laura and Martina are seasoned consultants with combined […]

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When Innovation Fails and 10 Ways to Innovation Success

No one is able to stand still in this fast paced business environment. As business leader you’re looking for ways to innovate, but most of the time innovation fails. Innovation process-expert Robert Cooper shows that of every seven new product/service projects, about four enter development, 1.5 are launched, and only one succeeds. Innovation is so difficult […]

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What’s Wrong with Publishers Paying to Promote Content?

Standing in the grocery checkout, it’s tempting to pick up the magazines – even if it’s not a title you’d usually buy, just because a headline strikes you as interesting. I often like to peruse the men’s magazines and gossip magazines, but my gender, income and psychographics are not going to match up with expectations. The magazine publishers have struck […]

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Be Innovative and Act Conservative

I saw a lot of innovative people present business ideas in a very original way: playing a movie, doing a dance, making a painting, writing one huge post-it, making a newspaper, and even by doing a flash mob. Of course it’s a great idea to be original, but when you present your innovative business idea […]

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High Business Growth: Gold at the end of the Rainbow?

In 1980 and 2008, the US Government’s Small Business Administration (SBA) found that high growth companies–so-called “gazelles”–were just 4% of total firms. In 2010, the US-based Blueprint Growth Institute determined that only 387 (3.5%) of 11,000 companies going public since 1980 had achieved over $1 billion (UK£620 million, €790 million) in sales. Whilst that sounds a […]

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Why Old School Sales Techniques Work

The greatest salespeople aren’t always the greatest CRM experts… and it doesn’t always matter. Every sales department has one. And, sadly, new recruits born into a world of web often sneer at them. The experienced sales executive who prefers landlines to telepresence, remembers the birthdays of his clients’ children and writes stuff down on paper. […]

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