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So many people tell me that they aren't creative or they aren't innovative, and it's just not true.
Scott D. Anthony
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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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You can increase the odds of spotting the weak points in your approach if you really think about the end-to-end business model you plan to follow - how you plan to create, capture, and deliver value.
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Make sure that you take the time to think about how other companies might respond to your idea, both those companies already in the market you plan to target as well as others that might imagine targeting that market.
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There's a general belief that failure is the friend of the innovator, but I've come to view it a different way.
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It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun.
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Have a core concept, but wrap it in a full business model.
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The most important thing here is to largely ignore what customers say, and instead watch what they do or track where they spend money.
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If you are trying to improve the performance of existing operations in known markets, it is an analytical problem where it's just a question of aligning your execution engine in the right way. If it is about creating something new and different, you can't derive the right answer analytically.
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A next-generation innovation writer and thought leader worth watching.
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Small teams move faster than big teams.
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Of course if you are launching a new business you can thinking about revenues, profits, and so on, but metrics such as customer satisfaction or employee retention might be meaningful if you are focusing more internally.
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