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Morning Advantage: Disruptive Innovation Made Easy

Harvard Business Review

Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." Incremental change doesn’t disrupt an industry; radical change does," they note. Growth in health care spending in the United States has slowed considerably since 2009. CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF.

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Morning Advantage: Disruptive Innovation Made Easy

Harvard Business Review

Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." Incremental change doesn’t disrupt an industry; radical change does," they note. Growth in health care spending in the United States has slowed considerably since 2009. CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF.

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The Innovative Mindset Your Company Can’t Afford to Lose

Harvard Business Review

When his son, Hayden, was diagnosed with the disease, in 2009, Lane was a product manager at GE Energy. While technology is a huge enabler of this brand of disruption, it’s more about solving problems based on user need and moving away from assumptions based on what worked in the past.

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives. It took the financial backing and technical support of GE and the support of CEO Jeff Immelt to nurture this business through numerous technical and business model changes.