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2 Key Opportunities from the 2012 Global Innovation 1000 Report
For the past 8 years, Booz and Company has been conducting a Global Innovation study to drive deeper understanding behind R&D spending and its impact on financial performance as well as to...
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The Failure Club
It’s the beginning of 2013. What kind of adventure do you have lined up this year? Ask yourself, are there ideas you have been putting off, too afraid due to fear of failure, that you know deep down...
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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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Visual Thinking Strategies
Recently, we had an opportunity to sit down with Ann DuCharme, an expert in Visual Thinking Strategies, a new tool that can be applied to enable and drive business model innovation. Visual Thinking...
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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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Looking 10 Years Out, What Is Your Franchise Idea?
ESPN recently asked a group of baseball experts, “If you were starting a baseball franchise today and you could pick any player in professional baseball to carry the team for the first 10 years, who...
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A Garage Structure for Big Ideas
We’re always on the lookout for case studies of established organizations driving sustained growth, inspired by entrepreneurship. Leatherman Tool Group’s FreeRangePDX division definitely fits that...
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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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3 Simple Tactics to Drive Employee Engagement Around Ideas
We often hear the question “What can I do to get my employees to contribute business-building ideas?” Often, this question is from leaders who, in an earnest quest for ideas, have tried the...
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5 Smart and Scrappy Ways to Discover Insights
Market Research is evolving. Big Data. Cognitive Science. Behavioral Economics. Anthropologic Ethnography. Democratized, do-it-yourself Google Surveys. It’s easy to get lost in all of the...
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The Garage Group Instigating at 2013 Cincinnati Innovation Summit
Come join us at The 2013 Cincinnati Innovation Summit on October 10, 2013 at METS Center in Northern Kentucky. The theme of this year’s event is Collaborating to Innovate for Sustainable Success. Last...
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6 Steps to Amp up Your Associative Thinking Skills
Jeff Dyer, coauthor of the Innovator’s DNA shared with us last week that you have to act differently to think differently. It’s a simple concept, yet most of us never really act…never develop the...
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Introducing The Garage Flash Mob: 2 Weeks to a Pipeline of Ideas
With as little as 2 weeks prep and a minimal investment of $20K, The Garage Flash Mob is a faster, smarter approach to building big ideas. We’ll start by crystallizing the business challenge you’re up...
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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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3 Keys to Successful Seamless Commerce Tactics
Seamless commerce is quickly becoming the new standard. Today’s consumer doesn’t purchase from just one touchpoint. They browse online, shop in store or opt for home delivery in response to an email...
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The Copenhagen Wheel Analog
We’re always on the lookout for cool new ideas — especially the ones that are stacked with product, service and/or marketing business model elements that can inspire other new ideas. See our post on...
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News: Launching Into An Entrepreneurial Approach to Insights
The Garage Group has been focused for the past few years on bringing our clients entrepreneurial approaches to Ideation and building big ideas. Now, we’re announcing that we’re adding entrepreneurial...
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Cincinnati PDMA Breakfast Panel: Driving Innovation Holistically
Join Cincinnati PDMA Board Members Jason Hauer: Cofounder of The Garage Group, Sirlei Waterhouse: Product Development Leader at Kao Brands and Wayne Fisher: Founder of Rockdale Innovation for a PDMA...
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