InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. These innovation-focused book recommendations will help teach you the skills and techniques needed to grow your business and improve your company’s innovation efforts. Check out our list of design thinking books to read. Books from 2020 & Earlier.

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 11, 2023

We need to shift our focus from disrupting industries to tackling grand challenges. While researching my book "Mapping Innovation," I had the opportunity to interview dozens of great innovators, from world-class scientists to super-successful entrepreneurs and top executives at some of the world’s largest corporations.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 15, 2020

Learn what works in innovation from these ten books. Here are ten books every innovator should crack as they build a new innovation approach. The Innovator’s Dilemma , by Clayton Christensen Christensen is the professor who turned “disruption” into a buzzword but, unfortunately, why he did so is lost in the noise.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 9, 2023

In today's fast-paced business landscape, companies face constant pressure to stay ahead of the competition and maintain their market share. Coined by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen in his book of the same name, the Innovator's Dilemma refers to the challenge [.]

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation. Brought to prominence by Professor Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma , this important theory provides an explanation as to why large, established companies eventually get overtaken by smaller ones, and it introduced the concept of disruptive innovation.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

If you have a project or team needing leadership and management, book an appointment with me now and we can speak about how I could help you. Competitive disadvantage: A delayed or failed project can allow competitors to move ahead, capturing market share and innovation opportunities. Book an appointment with Nick

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 10, 2023

How can you differenitate your business from the competition? Dyson disrupted the vacuum cleaner market by creating bagless vacuum cleaners, a concept that challenged the traditional vacuum design and improved performance. Let’s look at some examples of lateral thinking in business strategy and innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 31, 2019

The article quotes a book (The Disruption Dilemma) writing: Disruption describes what happens when firms fail because they keep making the kinds of choices that made them successful. If you understand these, and track them, you'll know when the old model starts to fail, and when it's time for truly disruptive innovation.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Innovation must be rooted in improving competitive advantage, customer needs, employee expectations and now, sustainability. Tiffani Bova is the global growth evangelist at Salesforce and the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book GROWTH IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business. Tiffani Bova.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 5, 2018

The new game, as demonstrated by a number of emerging disrupters, is captured in the book Unscaled and discussed at length in this nice blog post - one I wish I could have written. There are a couple of overlapping points here, but the main idea is that scale as a competitive weapon is increasingly passe.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 9, 2018

She's looking for people comfortable with creating and promoting change, who can help disrupt existing products and markets. Fast, Nimble, Agile, Innovative Not to toot my own horn too much, but there's a methodology aligned to this way of thinking, that my co-author and I outlined in our book OutManeuver.

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Matthew May

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

And there’s been a flurry of activity in management literature circles, focused on debunking Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation. The Undoing of Disruption , by Evan Goldstein in The Chronicle of Higher Education.). How Useful is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation?

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

These books can help you become a better learner. In this blog, we’ll share some of the most highly rated books about learning how to learn. This book features 6 simple steps to learn anything – find out how you can expand your knowledge without spending lots of money or dedicating thousands of hours to the process.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

So let me tell you what this is all about, and I will describe this with heavy referencing from Geoffrey Moore’s book “ Dealing with Darwin “ Without a doubt, one of my favourite books in how it helped me piece together a large part of my dynamic innovation fitness puzzle. First, you have the internal view.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In recent years, more and more companies have realized the need for innovation as they’ve seen businesses all around them, and perhaps even their own business, being disrupted. And, if you don’t have customers, the reason really isn’t your competition, it’s you not providing them with enough value. High talent density. It’s not easy.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 26, 2015

In 1983, I identified digital disruption as one of twenty technology-driven Hard Trends that would increasingly shape the future at an exponential rate, and at the same time drive economic value creation. Today, as more and more industries and businesses become disrupted, it is important to understand that digital disruption happens in waves.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Lastly, they have such limited ability to adapt to change and drag down performance when you are at the point of time when you need to improve performance as your competitive landscape seems more threatened than ever. We begin to see some of the traps Clayton Christensen wrote about in his “Innovators Dilemma” and follow-up books.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Each of these hugely disruptive technological innovations has provided the society with a platform to build on top of, which leads to an extended period, typically 30-50 years, of highly accelerated economic growth. They refer to these foundational and disruptive innovations as innovation platforms. What should your organization do?

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Daniel Burrus

JUNE 5, 2019

Now, not everyone has it in their homes because YouTube TV, Sling TV, and other new, emerging technologies have disrupted the broadcast industry. Why did they become the disrupted and not the disruptor? A key to success for a company that’s facing disruption–adopt a strategy of embrace and extend. The Dangerous Assumption.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 4, 2019

Then a good friend introduced me to the book Loonshots, which I haven't read, but did listen to a podcast about. This is one reason I have discomfort with the "Loonshots" book. I'm not here to review Loonshots, but I do want to debunk the idea of innovation and its connotation to "shots" of any kind. Shot First is the word "shot".

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

The ‘product of my work’ itself is presently being worked through to be available as an e-book in the coming weeks. The intent of the e-book is to offer a practical, direct takeaway of design thinking, more of the present practices and then where it is possibly heading. They have three main themes.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Industry borders are blurring, there are increasingly smaller, agile and highly disruptive companies working to change the existing into the new preferred. It can give you a real competitive advantage by translating what you learnt in applying analogies to solutions that solve your customer problems. Turning “yes but”….into

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Why your company needs to think about crowdsourcing with the competition…. Understandably, the increase in competition and market saturation is seen by those who experience it as a direct threat to their organizational legitimacy. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” Sleeping With the Enemy. Legitimate Risk Factors.

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Daniel Burrus

JULY 31, 2019

The smart watch business is already filled with competition; however, by using Hard Trends, you can stack the deck in your favor. Merely hoping that disruption is not on your horizon is not a strategy; it is avoidance. Turn Disruption and Change Into Opportunity and Advantage with my latest book The Anticipatory Organization. .

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Idea to Value

MAY 27, 2019

Different appetites for disruption. The mindset of competition and customer satisfaction in known areas is different from that of creating new business models. The company became the world’s leading bookseller, marketing, packaging and distributing more books in print than any organization ever before.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 2, 2024

The decline in enrollment in higher education, disruptive alternatives to higher education, demographic declines, and the continued rise in spending by higher education. But the basis of competition is shifting. When disruptive innovation is afoot, competition follows predictable patterns. What’s driving this ?

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Leapfrogging

AUGUST 15, 2017

A few weeks ago, Jeff Bezos voiced a dirty little secret about disruptive innovation: it’s not just about creating groundbreaking new products and services, it’s about creating groundbreaking new products and services that people actually want to buy. “At And believe me, those inventions were not disruptive in any way.

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Rmukesh Gupta

AUGUST 20, 2019

Overview: — I got this book as an advance review copy. Rita McGrath has produced another stunning book, in a way even better than her earlier book “The End of Competitive advantage”. You can pre-order the book here. Ease of reading: — The book is not only easy to read.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 2, 2023

In my latest book, Experiential Intelligence , I highlight the importance of understanding and developing your team’s mindsets, abilities, and know-how. From the book Experiential Intelligence. As we’ve seen over and over, every product, service, and business model eventually gets disrupted.

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Rmukesh Gupta

MAY 13, 2016

It is in this scenario that i came across this book – The Digital Transformation Playbook , written by David Rogers and my interest was piqued and decided to spend my time reading the book. However, the book really surprised me in a very positive manner. However, the book really surprised me in a very positive manner.

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Daniel Burrus

MARCH 18, 2020

When an individual or organization fears change and are uncertain, it’s usually in regard to digital technology disrupting their status quo or from new, fast-moving competition. If we get past the fear of “what next” and become anticipatory, using the power of disruptive change to create a better tomorrow for all, it can.

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Leapfrogging

JULY 2, 2017

A few weeks ago, Jeff Bezos voiced a dirty little secret about disruptive innovation: it’s not just about creating groundbreaking new products and services, it’s about creating groundbreaking new products and services that people actually want to buy. “At And believe me, those inventions were not disruptive in any way.

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Planview

APRIL 6, 2023

When you transform one value stream, that value stream shows the improved benefits of speed to customer value, greater security, reduced errors, and risk mitigation of digital disruption. Speed of software delivery is either a competitive advantage or a startling disadvantage in the digital age. They design for speed of business.

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Strategyzer Innovation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

We’re writing a new book called The Invincible Company. The book builds upon Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , and it takes a deep dive into how world-class companies continuously reinvent their business models. We thought we’d highlight three of our upcoming cases as a sneak peek into our new book.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 5, 2022

This was one of the first books that I read that made me really interested in the work at the Christensen Institute, and I continue to refer to its insights as I continue my work with some of today’s most impactful innovators. This book may just be the guide for those companies in growth markets.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

They envision something utterly different—something that has the power to disrupt an entire landscape and open people’s eyes to something completely new. Anticipatory entrepreneurs think exponentially about everything, let alone technology and digital disruption. Think Exponentially.

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 10, 2020

In my latest book, The Invisible Advantage: How to Create a Culture of Innovation , I define culture as “ the norms and values that shape behavior.” And it’s likely your competition. In today’s world, everything eventually gets disrupted. Innovation shouldn’t stop either. Shape yours today.

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