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Jeffrey Phillips
MAY 24, 2022
Red teams and blue teams originate from the military, where one team takes on the role of an attacker or proposes a strategy and another team seeks to disrupt or destroy the strategy.
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Identifying Opportunities for Disruptive Innovation
Strategos
MARCH 24, 2017
We are drawn to stories of entrepreneurs who came up with brilliant ideas that disrupted the existing “rules of the game” by which industry players compete with one another. Disruption. A recent report by the Economist showed that 60% of company executives view disruption as a threat rather than an opportunity.
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Why We Are Entering A New Innovation Era.
Paul Hobcraft
NOVEMBER 29, 2016
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120 Artificial Intelligence: Disruption or Opportunity?
Daniel Burrus
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
IBM Watson first shot to fame back in 2011 by beating two of Jeopardy’s greatest champions on TV. The post Artificial Intelligence: Disruption or Opportunity? Watson is a cognitive computer that learns over time. This cognitive AI technology can process information much more like a smart human than a smart computer.
5 Ways FinTech Will Disrupt Your Company
Planview
AUGUST 29, 2017
Now, it promises to bring further disruption and fundamentally alter the way businesses grow, manage their finances and most importantly, meet the needs of their customers. billion in 2011 to $20.3 The union of finance and technology has already caused disruption across markets and industries, and that trend is unlikely to go away.
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Innovation Insights from Jeff Bezos and Amazon
Destination Innovation
MAY 17, 2016
Sales leapt from half a million dollars in 1995 to $17 billion in 2011. Disrupt your own business before someone else does. Bezos diversified his product range first with CDs and videos followed by electronic goods, toys and clothes. In 2013, he purchased The Washington Post newspaper. Lessons for Innovators.
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When Disruption Becomes Destructive: How Can Financial Services Companies Close the Innovation Gap?
Qmarkets
NOVEMBER 10, 2017
These banks recorded 58% growth between 2011 and 2016, a staggering number – that is until you review the performance of the industry’s newer entrants. Harnessing these people’s industry knowledge, experience and strengths can bring about substantial disruption. The Key to Penetrative Disruption. trillion to $1.0 trillion.
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How Technology is Empowering the Modern Property Manager
Business and Tech
DECEMBER 16, 2021
At the time we were looking to raise capital (between 2011 and 2013), businesses with women on the executive team received only 7 percent of the venture funding. Since the advancement of technology never stands still, we had to tackle developing major capabilities in a disruptive way while the proverbial clock was ticking.
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Digital transformation – the need to transform our innovation approaches
Paul Hobcraft
JULY 25, 2016
McKinsey in 2011 identified that 72% of transformation programs fail to deliver on their targets so there is an awful lot of thinking, planning and working through any transformation to make sure you end up with the 28% of the success stories. We need to ask can this lead to disruption, ours and others for competitive advantage?
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Generation (I)nnovation: Why Today's Teens Instinctively Understand Disruption
Mills-Scofield
OCTOBER 4, 2015
I am honored to host Whitney Johnson's post as part of the launch of her new book, Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. As of 2011, only 26% of teens were employed. Which meant she needed to earn nearly $3,000.
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Industry 4.0 – disruption or just a logic extension of WWW?
Innovation 360 Group
JUNE 2, 2015
The term first surfaced at the Hannover Messe Industrial Fair in 2011, with the theme Industry 4.0. The post Industry 4.0 – disruption or just a logic extension of WWW? Industry 4.0 is the name of the German government’s strategy for the fourth industrial revolution. So, how do the trends above link to Industry 4.0? Well, in many ways.
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Industry 4.0 – disruption or just a logic extension of WWW?
Innovation 360
JUNE 2, 2015
The term first surfaced at the Hannover Messe Industrial Fair in 2011, with the theme Industry 4.0. The post Industry 4.0 – disruption or just a logic extension of WWW? Industry 4.0 is the name of the German government’s strategy for the fourth industrial revolution. So, how do the trends above link to Industry 4.0?
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Typology for Innovative Organizations
Open Innovation EU
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
New generations, societal change, sustainable goals and disruptive technology require organizations to be much more flexible, self-reinventing organisms that don’t fit above-mentioned design principles. 2015, Christensen, 2011, Birkinshaw & Gibson, 2004, Kelley, 2005). The typology proposes 4 types of organizations.
Covering Innovation My Way
Paul Hobcraft
MAY 7, 2017
I often write and contribute to many other innovation businesses in different media channels specifically for innovation thought leadership where all my activity has been consistently voted in the top innovation knowledge providers since 2011, something I am incredibly proud to have achieved.
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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D.
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What is Lean Innovation? Components and Examples
Moves the Needle
AUGUST 14, 2018
The idea was conceived by Eric Ries and brought to life in his book The Lean Startup back in 2011. Others are being disrupted. And it’s a good thing, since their current business model is facing massive disruption. Some organizations are adopting lean startup now because they need to create new growth. Competition is now global.
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105 HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 27, 2011
As 2011 comes to a close, the editors of HBR.org are taking a look back at the most popular blog posts of the year to find out what most preoccupied you, our readers. HBR's 11 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011. To Get Paid What You're Worth, Know Your Disruptive Skills. Nine Things Successful People Do Differently.
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19 Digital transformation – the need to transform our innovation approaches
Paul Hobcraft
JULY 25, 2016
McKinsey in 2011 identified that 72% of transformation programs fail to deliver on their targets so there is an awful lot of thinking, planning and working through any transformation to make sure you end up with the 28% of the success stories. We need to ask can this lead to disruption, ours and others for competitive advantage?
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Warm and Fuzzy at the Front End of Innovation
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 15, 2016
I wrote about “ hearing all the voices of ideas at the front end and the “ two distinct parts of the innovation funnel ” building from my original post “ the new extended innovation funnel “, written in 2011. Ideas need to be even more connected both within the organization and outside coming in.
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Dance of the Corporate Innovators
The Inovo Group
MARCH 24, 2019
In 2011, O’Reilly and Tushman [ 3 ] built on the Exploration-Exploitation concept to create what they called the Ambidextrous Organization. And are they sufficient to achieve strategic objectives (or, worse, to avoid disruption)? Without them, species don’t evolve, and they can go extinct. Unfortunately, the answer is usually “no”.
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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught
Open Innovation EU
MAY 17, 2017
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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Innov8rs
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 20, 2011
These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change? Was a year like 2011 likely ?
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#2,051 – 2021 Breakthrough Nominee: vTubers
Greatest. Idea. Ever.
JANUARY 2, 2021
And just when I was learning the lay of the land a disruptive new trend comes along that could change everything: vTubers. vlogger Ami Yamato, who launched her YouTube channel in late 2011. Before that I never really watched anything on YouTube, not crazy cat videos, Dude Perfect trick shots, unboxing videos, or gaming streams.
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Options-based Strategy: An Approach for Uncertain Times
The Inovo Group
MAY 14, 2020
By 2011, they had several established stores in the Washington DC area and were ready to expand. In 2011, customers were saying “Wow. The founders desire to create a company that always evolves, that disrupts itself and that is not afraid of experimenting, of trying new things, is stronger than ever.
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52 Spigit Webinar: Embedding Innovation into Company DNA, Featuring Cambia Health
Planview
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
But the team at Cambia Health Solutions isn’t convinced that’s the case, which is why they embarked on a collective mission to disrupt and transform the healthcare industry as a whole. The Innovation Force. Enter the Innovation Force, Cambia’s internal innovation program powered by Spigit crowdsourcing software.
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How Swiss Post’s Partnership with Qmarkets Achieved Award-Winning Results
Qmarkets
JULY 5, 2017
In 2011, Swiss Post implemented Qmarkets’ full configurable enterprise-grade Q-max innovation software to allow staff from different departments and locations to share new business ideas in an organized, structured environment. But our international involvement goes beyond this.
The Innovation Instinct: Inventions Inspired by Nature
Qmarkets
DECEMBER 4, 2019
As we can see from these examples (and many more ), studying the solutions which have been developed by animals and plants can be an extremely effective catalyst for the development of disruptive innovations and inventions. Want to Evolve Operational Excellence at Your Enterprise?
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Is the iPad mobile?
Boxes and Arrows
MAY 14, 2013
The iPad hit the market about three years ago, quickly becoming disruptive by creating a user need where there previously was none. iPad App and Website Usability” 2011 : Results from a study. 22% of U.S. adults now own a tablet. Mark Zuckerberg: The iPad Isn’t Mobile” Mashable.com : Next Question. Nielsen, Jakob and Budiu Raluca.
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ITONICS
JULY 30, 2018
Disruptive technologies or innovations boost new business models that change the game of existing industries like the space industry (SpaceX), the music industry (Spotify), the film industry (Netflix) or the banking sector (FinTechs), just to name a few. Is there a pattern for disruption & breakthroughs?
Bitcoin’s Highs and Lows: Where to Next?
Daniel Burrus
JUNE 12, 2019
Over time, this will increasingly disrupt traditional models and global currencies, playing a role in a number of future digital transformations. Litecoin, for example, was launched back in 2011 on the same blockchain as Bitcoin and was meant to improve it. Owning cryptocurrency isn’t analogous to having paper money in your pocket.
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42 Top 10 must-read books on Innovation
hackerearth
SEPTEMBER 15, 2017
Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation has been called “the most influential business idea of recent years.” Engaging stories and tips on how to deal with damning cynics by donning “suitable” hats make this book an absolute gem. The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen Renowned Harvard Business School Professor Clayton M.
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Innovation in action: Value prior learning, no matter where that learning happens
Christensen Institute
JUNE 8, 2022
We tracked these students’ educational activities from their matriculation in the 2011-2012 school year through the end of 2018. At the end of each piece, we ask one of our education researchers to weigh in on what Theories of Disruptive Innovation have to say about the innovation.
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Tech Disruptor – The Process Mining Unicorn Celonis
ITONICS
JULY 13, 2018
The startup was founded in 2011 and soon became one of Germany’s fastest-growing tech firms headquartered in Munich, Germany. Celonis, as a software provider, is seeking to disrupt the management consulting sector. The students applied data mining to detect insights and patterns that established companies are struggling to identify.
Case Study: How to Build a Digital User Experience Monitoring System
Boxes and Arrows
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
We wait for two reasons: We want to make sure they have a chance to adequately interact with the product before responding to our survey, and we also want to reduce disruption. Sauro, J (2011). Figure 5 shows the invitation as it appears to the user. Figure 5: The survey invitation in the lower right of this interface. McClelland (Eds.),
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Our inabilities to adapt needs changing.
Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 20, 2015
According to a survey by McKinsey in 2011, 72% of our transformation programs fail to deliver on their original targets. Simply put companies ‘die’ due to their inability to adapt to change and transformation projects fail because the message somehow fails to register and never gets completed to the original objectives.
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When Pundits Say That Robots Will Take Our Jobs, Remember These 4 Things
Innovation Excellence
MAY 18, 2020
Clearly, by automating the book buying process, Amazon disrupted superstore book retailers like Barnes & Noble and Borders. Borders filed for bankruptcy in 2011 and was liquidated later that same year. Consider the case of bookstores. Barnes & Noble managed to survive, but has been declining for years.
The Secret Ingredient to Operational Excellence Success
Qmarkets
JULY 8, 2017
In his 2011 book, Design for Operational Excellence, Kevin J. Make abnormal flow visual so every employee can easily tell when flow has been disrupted. Right Idea, Wrong Approach. In contemporary operations management, the thoughts and feelings of employees are given relatively much more consideration.
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7 Things Every CEO Should Know About Their Patents
Anaqua
MARCH 30, 2018
End of 2011 $1,578. End of 2011 $48 (net of accumulated amortization of $1,114). With the pace of innovation increasing every day, senior executives and Boards need to be mindful of potential risks, including catastrophic disruption; as well as emergent opportunities. End of 2012 $7,473. billion ($2.9 billion cash, $5.5
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The University of Central Asia: Educational Innovation in the Mountains of Rural Kyrgyzstan
New Markets Advisors
MAY 17, 2018
With the insights I’ve since gained at New Markets, I’d like to examine the University of Central Asia (UCA) through the lens of disruptive innovation and Jobs to Be Done, two concepts popularized by Clayton Christensen, the author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. The current university system is being disrupted, and this is only the beginning.
Great to Good
IdeaSpies
AUGUST 31, 2018
Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H. The New S Curve: Organizations in various countries that I am working with are all buzzing about disruptive innovation – how to build the new growth cycle? Diamandis provide further evidence of this prosperity.
Great to Good Innovation
IdeaSpies
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H. The New S Curve: Organizations in various countries that I am working with are all buzzing about disruptive innovation – how to build the new growth cycle? Diamandis provide further evidence of this prosperity.
Great to Good Innovation
IdeaSpies
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H. The New S Curve: Organizations in various countries that I am working with are all buzzing about disruptive innovation – how to build the new growth cycle? A good idea or two will suffice.
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