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Customer Orientation Effects on Innovation

Integrative Innovation

A disruptive innovation is a new offering that introduces a different set of performance attributes relative to what already exists, and this set of attributes is initially attractive to an emerging customer segment but unattractive to mainstream customers (Adner, 2002; Christensen, 1997). In many recent cases (e.g.

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Innovation Insights from Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Destination Innovation

Although its sales of new books were growing very healthily, in 2002 Amazon introduced a service whereby people could sell second-hand books through the company’s website. Disrupt your own business before someone else does. In 2013, he purchased The Washington Post newspaper. Lessons for Innovators.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

Magretta, 2002). WHO – Every business model serves a certain customer group (Chesbrough and Rosenbloom 2002; Hamel 2000). Magretta 2002). According to the degree of innovation, innovations can be divided into evolutionary and disruptive innovations. And what does the customer value? How do we make money in this business?

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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Making strategy behind closed doors is a prescription for failure when disruptions are coming from all directions. The NASA Pirates – a group officially disbanded in 2002 whose effects still reverberate – were a group of engineers who challenged the traditional practices at NASA.

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Comment on Innovation Minute #25: How to Conduct Healthy Experiments by Fraser Liscumb

Stephen Shapiro

When our Hub introduce Canadian government in 2002 to community incubator and accelerator thinking. Maybe you should send this to all Global leaders.

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Disrupting Markets – Why PayPal Is Worth More Than Ebay

Adam Hartung

in 2002 , in order to grease the wheels for faster ecommerce growth. To augment growth eBay realized those selling needed a simple way to collect money from people who lacked a credit card. Many customers simply had no card, or didn’t trust giving out the information across the web. So eBay bought fledgling PayPal for $1.5B

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Innovation Networks – Needed Now More Than Ever

The Inovo Group

Today’s VUCA world (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) requires that companies form robust knowledge networks to have any real hope of delivering the innovations, especially transformational innovations, that are needed for the growth which they aspire to or to prevent disruption from new entrants. Norton & Company; May 2002.