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Keeping Up is a Fool’s Game

Daniel Burrus

Keeping up—with technology, with the competition, with anything in business or life—is what some would call a fool’s game. Asking these questions enables you to go beyond your competition and get off the treadmill of keeping up. There’s just one problem. Think about it: When you’re merely keeping up, what’s the advantage?

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Agile Strategy – 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Disruptive Innovation

BrainZooming

Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Agile Strategy and Disruptive Innovation. How can you develop a super-agile process that disrupts other industry players’ competitive advantages? via Shutterstock. Developing an Agile Strategy.

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Retaining the innovative spark

Jeffrey Phillips

Competition is accelerating, of course, and so is innovation. Yet once music was digitized, Apple disrupted the music distribution business with iTunes, which seemed poised to dominate the music distribution business for years. In 1920 the average life expectancy of a firm on the S&P 500 was 67 years. Today it is 15 years.

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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

Every company needs to simultaneously optimize their existing business model (sustain) and search for the next evolution of the business model (disrupt). And companies that continuously outlearn their competition win. March 9, 2012 - Running Lean Meta-Process - Lean Canvas Continuous Innovation Framework 2.0?—?June

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Disrupting Markets – Why PayPal Is Worth More Than Ebay

Adam Hartung

eBay has run into stiff competition, as CraigsList has grown to take over the “garage sale” and small local business ecommerce. Because once in a growth stall the company has already missed the market shift, and competition is taking customers quickly in new directions. So eBay bought fledgling PayPal for $1.5B

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The Top 5 Technology Trends That Will Drive Innovation in 2018

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Samsung Galaxy with touchscreen technology in 2012). Disruptive technologies will usher in “machine-mediated conversational marketing” to transform content marketing by delivering the most relevant and personalized content to the audience, while enhancing customer experience and improving engagement. NASA 1960), market pull (e.g.

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Adapt or die: lessons from 5 companies that failed to innovate

Idea Drop

They filed for bankruptcy in 2012. Price, branding, competitor offering and even convenience are all equally important, and you need to tick every box to stay competitive. Although Kodak had early access to the first digital camera technology, they chose not to develop it as they felt it would kill their own film business.

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