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Business Model Innovation: Mining for Innovation Gems Hidden in Plain Sight

When it’s time to innovate, do you think only about new products, designs, and features? There’s a sea change happening for the most successful companies that are eschewing focus on product innovation and instead redefining the very core of their business models. They’re realizing new high-growth markets, customers, and capabilities that were previously untapped. This article provides a roadmap for how companies stuck in mediocre or declining growth can harness the power of business model innovation to create new profit centers, open up new sales channels, and reinvent their businesses.

By Srinivas Somayajula and Robert Amberg

Table of Contents / Spring 2015

How to Create a Culture of Accountability

It’s not enough to simply demand accountability. Instead, focus the corporate culture growth and accomplishment.

By Lauren Abraham Mahoney, Katie Misel, Tracy Reznik, and Fred Jewell

Using Bracketology to Prioritize Initiatives

Your business can learn from the NCAA tournament about how to rank and prioritize initiatives that may otherwise seem impossible to compare.

By Kevin Clickner and Jimmy Mitchell

Strategy Without an Execution Plan Is Just Theory

Delivering on a strategic vision is very different from the pure process of strategic planning. It requires a mix of tactical and visionary thinking.

The Evolutional Convergence of Technology

The next big thing may not be a thing at all, but the convergence and connectivity of things.

By Sam Noyd and Seth Pelletier

Why the Right Planning Could Have Sent the Yankees to the Playoffs

Aligning your company’s products, operations, customers, and technologiesehind a common strategic plan could yield a home run.

By Rebecca Parker

Data Insights from the Hardwood to the Boardroom

Taking a fresh look at what the data is showing you can lead to million-dollar changes in business strategy.

By Jimmy Mitchell and Kevin Clickner

Conquering Your Personal Everest

Four lessons that can propel you toward achieving what you thought was out of reach.

Letter from the Founders

“Innovation is the difference between getting there and staying there.”

Jabian Conversations

Mark Dunson, President of Emerson Climate Technologies, Retail Solutions, is helping change how his company thinks about innovation.

Improving Loyalty in the Modern Customer

Interacting with your company should be a positive experience for your customer. In the best scenario, your company can offer functions that actually make your customers’ lives easier.

By Lydia Lichtenberger

The Big Bang Theory of Security

Look for more investment into computer security technology that relies on quantum theories of computing.

By Fleming Free

Creating Superheroes in Your Organization

Understand the ways so-called “stretch assignments” can reveal leaders and benefit the organization, but remember: You can only pull “Stretch Armstrong” so far before he breaks.

By Victoria Inman and Tracy Reznik

What Does Your IT Department Have in Common with Starbucks?

A brand. The question is, what does your department’s brand say about its reputation within the company?

By Courtney Ramey and Liam Durbin

Leadership Lessons: Five Characteristics of Great Coaches

Some of the greatest leaders in sports history have demonstrated all the characteristics businesses leaders need to succeed.

By Bill Jagrowski, Anna Pinder, Tracy Reznik, and Fred Jewell

A Framework for Value and Brand Building

Moving up the value chain, providing value first to individuals, then to businesses, then to industry, ultimately serves your company’s long-term goals.

By Fred Jewell and Bill Jagrowski

Tapping Employees’ Passions to Create High-impact Community Opportunities

Foster a culture that supports charity and volunteerism — then watch those personal relationships benefit your community, your employees, and your business.

Jabian Conversations

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Meet the Contributors

Meet the thought-leaders behind this issue of The Jabian Journal.

The Final Word

A conversation with Sangram Vajre, co-founder and CMO of Terminus.

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