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Innovation is not enough

If you are looking for “What’s Next” in your business growth strategy, you no doubt currently using, or at least considering, innovation a key tool for input into that. But innovation is not enough to reliably lead to a breakthrough disruptive strategy. We only seem to be doing innovation and not really working on doing […]

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Business model nnovation for business strategy

Business Model Innovation is the key to disruption (8 min video)

Garage Gigs for Growth (#9) Using examples of the differences between business model innovation and product innovation for business strategy you can set yourselves up to workshop your own 2018 business growth plan. Changes in communication, transportation, computing and payments technologies has brought about a change to the way consumers and customers shop and buy. […]

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How will Amazon do in Australia?

Starbucks tanked and Netflix banked. Which way will Amazon go? (9 min video)

Garage Gigs for Growth (#7)   Amazon’s Australia launch finally arrived this week and everyone has an opinion about whether they will win big and inflict serous damage on our large retailers;  or if they will underestimate our low density population and subsequent logistics complexity and cost. Two companies, whose performance we may be able […]

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Disruption and Innovation

The three perspectives you need for strategy (6 min video)

Garage Gigs for Growth (#6) Apart from the usual strategic fare on offer on the retro chalkboard – there is also a ‘fun’ moment when I disappear offscreen. Hey – they aren’t Garage Gigs for nuttin’. This episode of Garage Gigs for Growth helps you look at your strategy work in the context of three different […]

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Disruptive Innovation growth strategies

Disruptive innovation growth strategies (6 min video)

Garage Gigs for Growth (#5)   This weeks Garage Gig for Growth  provides a framework for understanding the difference between different disruptive innovation growth strategies. It’s a powerful way to think about your growth strategies and the potential for future competition in your market. Disruption and innovation are overused terms and often mentioned together as […]

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A very important fourth type of innovation (3 min video)

Garage Gigs for Growth (#3)   There are different types of Innovation. Australia for years now has been obsessed with Company Innovation, working to make things more optimised and efficient in an effort to drive costs lower. Finding new ways to take labour out of the product and service offering has been a national sport. […]

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Innovation Speedboat

The Innovation Speedboat every organisation needs to power new growth (5 min video)

Garage Gigs for Growth (#2) Innovation has been high on the National and Corporate agenda for the past couple of years. There has been a lot of money and resources sloshing around focused on getting new growth opportunities to fly. But just like the Birdman Rally at Moomba, some endeavours are doing better than others. […]

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