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  • Need to Pivot? Tap Into Your Organization’s Intelligence [Episode 93]

    How can your organization’s intelligence pick up early signals of changes in the business environment?
    Find out by downloading and listening- on-the-go to Episode 93.  Scott and I discuss why your organization’s intelligence is one of the most powerful assets for detecting a need to pivot.
    In this episode, you’ll find out:

    * Why tapping into organization’s intelligence is an “art”
    * Three keys (with downloadable reference and video) for ensuring that organization intelligence is relevant, reliable, and actionable
    * Immediately useful ideas for tapping into your organization’s intelligence – beyond the usual methods



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    About Us
    Pamela S. Harper is the Founding Partner and CEO of Business Advancement Inc., a strategic growth advisory firm based in Glen Rock, NJ. For more than 20 years, Pam has applied her gift for finding the hidden opportunities in every situation to helping clients in entrepreneurial, mid-market, and Fortune 500 companies across 30 industries create hundreds of millions of dollars of value in both top and bottom line growth.
    Prior to founding BAI, Pam skyrocketed into the ranks of management by taking a progressive series of newly created organizational development positions in companies ranging from mid-market to Fortune 500 across multiple industries, all undergoing dramatic change and growth.
    Pam has been quoted in, featured in, or written articles for prominent business media including Business Week, Investor’s Business Daily, Chiefexecutive.net, CEO.com and other major media. Her book, Preventing Strategic Gridlock, has been used as a text in universities around the world.
    D. Scott Harper, Ph.D., is Sr. Partner with Business Advancement Inc. Throughout his career Scott has devoted himself to understanding why things work the way they do, and how to apply those insights to create new value. Scott helps clients sift through complexity and take full advantage of opportunities by discovering the hidden side of everything.
    Before joining BAI in 2010, Scott held a succession of increasingly accountable innovation positions in the consumer healthcare industry. Since then, he has been published and quoted in prominent business media outlets including Chief Executive Magazine, CEO.com, CEO World Magazine, and the IndUS Business Journal.

    Resources for This Episode

    * Download the process visual “3 essential elements for boosting your organization’s intelligence”
    * Watch a video showing the power of the OTE Huddle
    * Listen to related Growth Igniters Radio episodes:

    * Guest Brian Scudamore: Leadership ...
    25 min
  • Need to Pivot? Tap Into Your Organization’s Intelligence [Episode 93]

    How can your organization’s intelligence pick up early signals of changes in the business environment?
    Find out by downloading and listening- on-the-go to Episode 93.  Scott and I discuss why your organization’s intelligence is one of the most powerful assets for detecting a need to pivot.
    In this episode, you’ll find out:

    * Why tapping into organization’s intelligence is an “art”
    * Three keys (with downloadable reference and video) for ensuring that organization intelligence is relevant, reliable, and actionable
    * Immediately useful ideas for tapping into your organization’s intelligence – beyond the usual methods



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    About Us
    Pamela S. Harper is the Founding Partner and CEO of Business Advancement Inc., a strategic growth advisory firm based in Glen Rock, NJ. For more than 20 years, Pam has applied her gift for finding the hidden opportunities in every situation to helping clients in entrepreneurial, mid-market, and Fortune 500 companies across 30 industries create hundreds of millions of dollars of value in both top and bottom line growth.
    Prior to founding BAI, Pam skyrocketed into the ranks of management by taking a progressive series of newly created organizational development positions in companies ranging from mid-market to Fortune 500 across multiple industries, all undergoing dramatic change and growth.
    Pam has been quoted in, featured in, or written articles for prominent business media including Business Week, Investor’s Business Daily, Chiefexecutive.net, CEO.com and other major media. Her book, Preventing Strategic Gridlock, has been used as a text in universities around the world.
    D. Scott Harper, Ph.D., is Sr. Partner with Business Advancement Inc. Throughout his career Scott has devoted himself to understanding why things work the way they do, and how to apply those insights to create new value. Scott helps clients sift through complexity and take full advantage of opportunities by discovering the hidden side of everything.
    Before joining BAI in 2010, Scott held a succession of increasingly accountable innovation positions in the consumer healthcare industry. Since then, he has been published and quoted in prominent business media outlets including Chief Executive Magazine, CEO.com, CEO World Magazine, and the IndUS Business Journal.

    Resources for This Episode

    * Download the process visual “3 essential elements for boosting your organization’s intelligence”
    * Watch a video showing the power of the OTE Huddle
    * Listen to related Growth Igniters Radio episodes:

    * Guest Brian Scudamore: Leadership ...
    25 min
  • The Unexpected Advantage of Constraints

    What does it take to transform your limitations into assets?  Find out by listening on-the-go to Episode 92,  This week we had our own constraint – Pam was sick with laryngitis. So it was fitting to transform our limitation into a an asset by revisiting our conversation with guest Whitney Johnson, the leading thinker on driving corporate innovation through […]

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    31 min
  • The Unexpected Advantage of Constraints [Episode 92]

    What does it take to transform your limitations into assets? 
    Find out by listening on-the-go to Episode 92,  This week we had our own constraint – Pam was sick with laryngitis. So it was fitting to transform our limitation into a an asset by revisiting our conversation with guest Whitney Johnson, the leading thinker on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption. She is also the author of the critically-acclaimed book Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. 
    Whitney co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a boutique investment firm, with Clayton Christensen, and was an Institutional Investor-ranked analyst for eight consecutive years, including at Merrill Lynch. She and her work have been been covered in The Atlantic, BBC, CNN, Fast Company, the Guardian, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, and more. (see more in Whitney’s bio below).
    Find out:

    * How changing the way we think about constraints can actually increase our options
    * How constraints increase focus and improve decision-making
    * Three immediately useful ideas for turning constraints of all kinds to your advantage





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    About Whitney Johnson
    Whitney Johnson is the leading thinker on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption, and is the author of the critically-acclaimed book Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. She co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a boutique investment firm, with Clayton Christensen, and was an Institutional Investor-ranked analyst for eight consecutive years, including at Merrill Lynch. She is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and is also the author of the book Dare, Dream Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream (2012).
    Whitney has been widely recognized for her contributions, including being named a Future Thinker Finalist by management Thinkers50 in 2013, and was one of Fortune’s 55 Most Influential Women on Twitter in 2014. Whitney is also the co-founder of the Forty Over 40 list, recognizing women who are reinventing, disrupting, and making an impact. Find out more about Whitney Johnson.

    Resources for This Episode

    * Listen to our conversation with Whitney in Episode 41: Disrupt Yourself: A Powerful Idea For Succeeding in Unexpected Ways
    * Find out more about Disrupt Yourself  — order on Amazon.com
    * Read Whitney Jonson’s articles in Harvard Business Review


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    31 min
  • Creating New Value Through Remix Strategy

    How can you best shape the success of your relationships with external business partners? Find out by downloading and listening- on-the-go to Episode 91, as we speak with Ben Gomes-Casseres, author of the book Remix Strategy: The Three Laws of Business Combinations (Harvard Business Review Press). He is an expert on business combinations, who has been studying, teaching, and consulting on […]

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    35 min
  • Creating New Value Through Remix Strategy [Episode 91]

    How can you best shape the success of your relationships with external business partners?
    Find out by downloading and listening- on-the-go to Episode 91, as we speak with Ben Gomes-Casseres, author of the book Remix Strategy: The Three Laws of Business Combinations (Harvard Business Review Press). He is an expert on business combinations, who has been studying, teaching, and consulting on the strategy of business combinations for thirty years. He is a Professor at the International Business School, Brandeis University. (Read more about Ben below).
    You’ll gain insights on:

    * Why relationships such as alliances, partnerships, acquisitions, mergers, and joint ventures are increasingly part of the core strategy in most businesses
    * How three laws shape the success of any business combination
    * Immediately useful ideas for applying these laws to improve your company’s business combinations



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    About Ben Gomes-Casseres
    Ben Gomes-Casseres has been studying, teaching, and consulting on the strategy of business combinations for thirty years. His newest book is Remix Strategy: The Three Laws of Business Combinations (Harvard Business Review Press, 2015). Ben is a professor at the International Business School, Brandeis University (since 1995) and previously was a professor at Harvard Business School (1985-1995). Prior to that, he was an economist at the World Bank.
    Ben has published five books and many academic and managerial articles. Ben speaks for and consults widely with companies seeking to create value from external resources and to improve the way they manage business partnerships. He holds degrees from Harvard, Princeton, and Brandeis. A native of Curaçao, he speaks four languages.  Read More about Ben Gomes-Casseres



    Resources for This Episode

    * Read about Ben’s book — Remix Strategy: The Three Laws of Business Combinations
    * Read about The Three Laws of Business Combinations — An Excerpt from “Remix Strategy”
    * Read Ben’s blog: Personal Chemistry in Partnerships — Handle With Care
    * Read Ben’s blog: Why Your Partnership Contract Is Too Important to Be Left to the Lawyers
    * Find out about senior executive’s surprising expectations and experiences of strategic alliances.
    35 min
  • The CEO’s Role in Navigating the “Gray Zone” of Innovation

    How can you lead through the ambiguity of innovation – even faster and more effectively? Find out by downloading and listening- on-the-go to Episode 90.  While most CEOs are not “hands-on” innovators, there are still a number of defining decisions CEOs make that can greatly impact innovation outcomes. In this episode, Scott and I bring out these issues, share […]

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    27 min
  • The CEO’s Role in Navigating the “Gray Zone” of Innovation [Episode 90]

    How can you lead through the ambiguity of innovation – even faster and more effectively?
    Find out by downloading and listening- on-the-go to Episode 90.  While most CEOs are not “hands-on” innovators, there are still a number of defining decisions CEOs make that can greatly impact innovation outcomes. In this episode, Scott and I bring out these issues, share our stories, and provide proven ideas for guiding your company through the “gray zone”
    You’ll gain insights on:

    * What “the gray zone of innovation” is, and how the CEO can set the stage for reducing it
    * The conflicting needs that are always behind the ambiguity of innovation
    * Three immediately useful ideas for creating an environment for navigating the innovation gray zone



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    About Us
    Pamela S. Harper is the Founding Partner and CEO of Business Advancement Inc., a strategic growth advisory firm based in Glen Rock, NJ. For more than 20 years, Pam has applied her gift for finding the hidden opportunities in every situation to helping clients in entrepreneurial, mid-market, and Fortune 500 companies across 30 industries create hundreds of millions of dollars of value in both top and bottom line growth.
    Prior to founding BAI, Pam skyrocketed into the ranks of management by taking a progressive series of newly created organizational development positions in companies ranging from mid-market to Fortune 500 across multiple industries, all undergoing dramatic change and growth.
    Pam has been quoted in, featured in, or written articles for prominent business media including Business Week, Investor’s Business Daily, Chiefexecutive.net, CEO.com and other major media. Her book, Preventing Strategic Gridlock, has been used as a text in universities around the world.
    D. Scott Harper, Ph.D., is Sr. Partner with Business Advancement Inc. Throughout his career Scott has devoted himself to understanding why things work the way they do, and how to apply those insights to create new value. Scott helps clients sift through complexity and take full advantage of opportunities by discovering the hidden side of everything.
    Before joining BAI in 2010, Scott held a succession of increasingly accountable innovation positions in the consumer healthcare industry. Since then, he has been published and quoted in prominent business media outlets including Chief Executive Magazine, CEO.com, CEO World Magazine, and the IndUS Business Journal.

    Resources for This Episode

    * Download “5 Questions To Ask When You Need to Move Even Faster”
    * Download stakeholder checklist: “Expanding Your Company’s Perspectives by adding Eyes and Ears“
    * Listen to related Growth Igniters Radio episodes:

    27 min

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Growth Igniters® Radio is the award-winning executive leadership podcast for CEOs, C-suite teams, and board directors who are reimagining leadership for transformational growth. Since 2015, hosts Pam…