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Collaborate Innovate and Dominate
By: Mike Myatt
Those of you who know me or have followed this Blog for any length of time know how strongly I feel about innovation as a key driver in business. You also know how heavily I value partnering, venturing and collaboration as key leverage points. Independently these two concepts are powerful, but couple them together and they create a catalyzing effect of unequalled proportion. In this blog post we?ll examine what these disciplines can mean to your business.
The ?me too? era of business is gone?Following the crowd with a ?herd mentality? will only run your business into the ground. I just finished reading the 64 page ?IBM Global CEO Study 2006? in which 750 CEO?s of leading companies from around the world were interviewed. The result of the survey simply confirmed what I have been evangelizing for years?Collaborate, Innovate and Dominate (my quote not IBM?s). At N2growth we help our clients create market dominant companies and a big part of our success formula is showing our clients the value using collaboration to drive innovation?The bottom line is that nothing will be more meaningful to your business in the months and years ahead than your ability to excel in these two areas.
Collaboration starts internally, but as the IBM report emphasizes it is essential to ?defy collaboration limits? and look for collaborative opportunities outside your company, spanning verticals, across geographic boarders and across competitive boundaries (note my link to competitor IBM). The reality is that great ideas are rarely incubated in a vacuum. New ideas, different perspectives and creative approaches can be used to refine organic initiatives in ways that you might not ever believe if left to your own thinking.
The IBM report clearly showed that CEOs around the globe have embraced collaboration and innovation. They understand that their success will lie in their ability to continue to add value in new ways, in new markets and with new products and services. CEO?s in today?s business world need to step-up and realize that they need to lead by example and drive a cultural and philosophical innovation revolution within their companies. Senior executives not capable of collaborating and innovating will have a very limited shelf life moving forward. I think Kluas Kleinfeld, President and CEO of Siemens AG put it best when he said: ?You can only win the ?war? with ideas, not with spending cuts.?
The moral of this story is don?t find yourself caught in the innovation gap or cut off from collaborative advancements. Remember?Collaborate, Innovate and Dominate!
Mike Myatt is the Chief Strategy Officer at N2growth. N2growth is a leading venture growth consultancy providing a unique array of professional services to high growth companies on a venture based business model. The rare combination of branding and corporate identity services, capital formation assistance, market research and business intelligence, sales and product engineering, leadership development and talent management, as well as marketing, advertising and public relations services make N2growth the industry leader in strategic growth consulting. More information about the company can be found at http://www.N2growth.com or by viewing http://www.N2growth.com/blog |  |
