Jobs adopted a concept from another company and then tweaked into something amazing: the Graphical User Interface (GUI). Even though the Xerox computers with the

Between marketing innovation and optimization, this is the sweet spot highlight:

On one hand, you need to know the score in terms of what your competitors are doing — what's working for them and what challenges they're facing. On the other hand, you can combine th...

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Innovation is important, but only when you combine it with marketing intelligence you lock the creative magic.

Keep your eyes open. Look at your competition. Acknowledge their strengths and analyze their weakness...

The innovator is usually not the one to create a lot of shareholder value for a company. It's not always a matter of being first to market. The key is being the best in the market, and that usually means coming in second, analyzing the best practices and missteps of your predecessor, and...

Innovation for the sake of innovation is often counterproductive. An emphasis on mastering best practices is where you get the highest ROI.

Many marketers are so focused on coming up with newer, splashier methods of delivery that they f...

In the marketing world, everyone wants to be the next Apple, thus “innovation” is the sexy thing. Whilst the very best marketing strategy to implement may not revolve around doing something new, but it always revolves around doing something well.

Innovation is

Even though Facebook, Instagram's parent company, is not known for its innovative approach, it has profited from stealing ideas from other companies. That's where Instagram Stories came from — a blatant rip-off  ...

Jobs is the classic example of a corporate leader held up as an innovator in his field. In the vast majority of cases, innovation is less about creating something out of thin air, and more about borrowing (or stealing) good ideas from the competition, and then transforming t...