Innovation Excellence

APRIL 20, 2020

And the social disruption caused by COVID19 has broken more habits and established behaviors than any global event since WWII, opening the door to unprecedented change. Companies who do build in redundancy and buffers will be vulnerable to disruption from more fragile competition.

Innovation 68

Innovation Disruption Open Innovation Change 68

CREATORS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

You can read part one HERE ** Do you remember who invented the liquid crystal display (LCD) back in 2003 that disrupted a whole industry and thereby brought the era of traditional tube televisions to an end? Start-ups are agile, their organizational structure promotes innovation and drives change forward?—?this

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Competition Disruption System 40

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth. An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. He was right.

Disruption 16

Disruption Industry Agile Analysis 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

The Lean Startup has crystallized many of the ideas fundamental to successful innovation and provided companies with additional ways to understand and make room for rapid iteration, agile development, and in-market testing of new ideas. What's your venture's unique point of view on how the market will evolve or be disrupted?

LEAN 19

LEAN Agile Competition Software 19

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

This represents a truly disruptive management and operating model. But the implications of this approach clearly go beyond the process changes for product management (what Singleton calls “ Continuous Agile ”). In the time it takes Staples to make one new release, Amazon has made 300,000 changes.

Software 11

Software Industry Management Team Building 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In 2015, Lloyd’s (the world’s specialist insurance market) estimated that cyber-attacks cost businesses as much as $400 billion per year , which includes direct damage plus post-attack disruption to the normal course of business. Such costs are expected to quadruple again by 2019, to in excess of $2 trillion.

Data 13

Data Agile System Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services. These "channel" systems helped steer business to American Airlines. As with American Airlines, each competitive advantage with IT is temporary. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

Management 9

Management Fractional CTO CTO Competition 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Instead of making the leap to an entirely new form of organization — a radical change not without its pitfalls — perhaps we should think more seriously about the problem of agility itself. Southwest’s mission of being the low-cost airline drives everything it does, from the planes it buys to the routes it competes on.

Agile 13

Agile Disruption Leadership Software Developers 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

People Express, for example, is a business simulator that provides players with a rich inside perspective on starting and managing an airline. Exogenous shocks (new technologies, economic-political events) were incorporated as well to train players to stay agile and flexible. Games allow different scenarios to be tested.

Underperforming Technical Team 15

Underperforming Technical Team Comparison Strategy Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

Scale drove consolidation and globalization of industries throughout the mid-twentieth century and it still does today, such as in steel, airlines, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications. Scale and efficiency are mostly about competing by lowering costs.

Company 14

Company LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Competition 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Less than one in 10 firms said they “innovate in an agile way.” ” My own conversations with top-level business managers reveal that most are in a state of disruptive ambiguity for many reasons, with today’s digital onslaught leading the list. .” ” A 2014 survey by Deloitte of top U.S.

Management 15

Management Survey Underperforming Technical Team Internet of things 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

The Lean Startup approach is enabling GE to take “ Agile ” and “ Lean ” methods, which they had been using to improve operations, and apply them to starting businesses. By working with and emulating start-ups, GE hopes to both grow their core offerings and disrupt their current way of doing business — and to keep an old company young.

Technical Review 11

Technical Review LEAN Software Review Product Development 11