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Treating Discovery Like Execution Will Kill Innovation

Tim Kastelle

With the lean startup movement, we now have a set of tools that startups can use to make sure that they do discovery first, then execution. It’s from 2007, and one of the first (and still one of the best) applications of the three horizons framework that I’ve seen.

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Innovation Lessons from the Troublesome Start of AIRBNB

Innovation Excellence

AirBnB started in 2007 and is valued now at over $ 25 billion. What began as a simple idea to earn some extra income and help out travelers from out-of-town eventually took off globally. There are at least 3 important lessons learned from its troublesome start. Here's their story.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

find new ideas and examples to disrupt your industry. Some of the most notable and disruptive inventions of tomorrow will require a paradigmatic change in the way we interpret things today, in the way we perform tasks, in the technologies and resources we have access to. What if all your employees were freelancers?

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

find new ideas and examples to disrupt your industry. Some of the most notable and disruptive inventions of tomorrow will require a paradigmatic change in the way we interpret things today, in the way we perform tasks, in the technologies and resources we have access to. What if all your employees were freelancers?

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The Importance of Persistence: Building an Innovation System for the Long-term

The Inovo Group

A 2007 study by M. Since 1997, there have been numerous waves of innovation theories, models and practices such as Disruption from Below , Open Innovation , Lead User , Design Thinking , Test & Learn , Product-Market Fit , Agile/Lean Innovation , Startup Collaboration , to name a few of the more prominent waves.

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Good Ideas Often go Nowhere: Here’s What You Can Do About It

The Inovo Group

Eric Yuan, the founder of Zoom, was one of the first 20 employees of WebEx that was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007. This is especially true for those that are farther from the core competency of the company, but which have the potential to be disruptive. The idea was rejected. In a matter of days they get back is the following.