article thumbnail

How Should Your Business Find the Next Big Thing?

IdeaScale

Disruptive or incremental innovation? The former is disruptive innovation and although rare, it can happen, while the latter is incremental innovation. Disruptive Innovation. Disruptive innovation enjoys a certain blindness in our way of thinking: We remember successes, not mistakes.

article thumbnail

Continuous Improvement and Breakthrough Innovation: Why You Need Both

IdeaScale

The iPhone was considered a true innovation back in 2007, opening up an entirely new approach to telecommunications and changing how people used phones forever. Major disruptions often happen because something (like people’s patience with the way things are) breaks. Breakthrough Innovation.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Successful office investments in disruptive times

Norbert Bol

Looking at the amount of capital that is being raised by the tech-companies, it is to be expected that the relative traditional real estate is up for disruption. This could make it possible to disrupt the ownership structure and the traditional relationship between the owner, tenant and other stakeholders. Norbert Bol. Literature.

article thumbnail

Is It Possible for Companies to Over-Innovate?

IdeaScale

Motorola’s RAZR and RIM’s BlackBerry were cutting-edge until 2007 when the iPhone arrived and made both of them utterly irrelevant in the time it took to explain what an “iPhone” even was. Look at what’s being talked about in your industry and be ready for disruptive shifts.

Company 150
article thumbnail

The New Game Or Is It? Asset Orchestration

Paul Hobcraft

The lighter you are, the more likely you are to be more flexible and adaptive to respond to more disruptive challenges being faced by industries that are undergoing the shift to being more “digitally enabled” Alibaba is very much a good asset orchestrator. One highly relevant observation.

Resources 158
article thumbnail

Innovative Businesses Prioritize Creativity

Daniel Burrus

Most notably, older organizations are the ones that place creativity in one column and positive disruptions via innovation in another. Some have been through the Great Depression, world wars, the Great Recession of 2007–09, and now, most recently, the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent economic downturn.

article thumbnail

Innovation Insights from Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Destination Innovation

Yet that is what they did in 2007 with the launch of the Kindle. Disrupt your own business before someone else does. Amazon’s strengths lay in excellent web services, software and logistics. For the company to launch its own hardware product would be a major step into unknown territory. It became a tremendous success.