Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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

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IdeaScale

JUNE 29, 2022

Aren’t breakthrough innovation and disruptive innovation the same thing? It’s a common question when building innovation strategy. After all, the car, the telephone, the smartphone, the electric car, the solar panel, weren’t these all breakthroughs that were also disruptive? What Is Disruptive Innovation? In a sense, yes.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 20, 2019

“Decoupling” the value chain is the next big strategy for digital innovation and business models. Digital disruption isn’t just about the internet or mobile technology. Teixeira’s thinking closely matches what I’ve been exploring in my other articles on disruption across industries like packaging , manufacturing , safety , and travel.

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BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2017

Whenever we discuss using questions to foster disruptive innovation strategy , it prompts objections. The objections center on the idea that questions do not create disruptive innovation. We never claim that questions alone will create disruptive innovation. Marketing strategies. Our response? Risk-taking behavior.

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Matthew May

JUNE 26, 2015

After reading his 1999 book High Velocity Leadership , we invited Brian to guest speak about the Mars Pathfinder project, and he soon he became a regular fixture in the University of Toyota’s “lean” leadership curriculum. One of my all-time favorite stories is the one he told about the Pathfinder team’s approach to a “don’t fail” strategy.

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Digital Tonto

APRIL 6, 2025

Yet todays cult of disruption demands that we constantly change and pivot only to change and pivot some more. As innovation expert Stephen Shapiro explains in his book, Pivotal, the answer isnt always something different, but something deeper. They already have everyday struggles and dont want someone elses idea to add to their burden.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? 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.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2019

Airbnb disrupted hotels. Now big travel and hospitality companies are going after the next disruptive innovation themselves before getting blindsided yet again. As part of a new series of articles I’m writing called Everything Transformed , I’m focusing on the widespread disruption of just about every industry on the planet.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 15, 2020

Learn what works in innovation from these ten books. Part of building a great innovation strategy is to learn about the history of innovation. Here are ten books every innovator should crack as they build a new innovation approach. This book lays out how businesses can do everything right and still lose out on 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. Conduct Regular Risk Assessments: Identify potential risks early and develop mitigation strategies. Proven frameworks , especially those aligned to the projects ambition, can help ensure success.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Shawn Hunter's ten strategies that he outlines in his class book "Out Think" for driving the disruptive innovations that entrepreneurs and startups all dream about: Here is my summary and interpretation of author G.

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Idea to Value

MAY 27, 2019

Different appetites for disruption. To survive and thrive established companies have to choose between two sets of strategies – tart-up or start-up. Tart-up strategies. Tart-up strategies assert that a fix is definitely in order but it doesn’t have to be a big change. Start-up strategies.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

That’s because they try to apply processes and structures that don’t fit their business strategies and cultures. They invest in disruptive technologies but ask existing business units to cannibalize their current products and services using them. Successful innovation requires aligning your innovation model to your business strategy.

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 27, 2021

For those interested in digital disruption and technological advancements , Bitcoin represented so much more than a way to allegedly make money fast like some type of digital wolf of Wall Street. If you asked those same individuals to explain what blockchain technology is, they would meet your gaze with a blank stare.

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It’s a more empowering lens, especially for the internal business functions focused on employee engagement, communication, culture, and strategy. Build a strategy that’s so compelling people won’t want to quiet quit at all. Moving Forward With Your Quiet Quitting Strategy. Your Business Strategy May Be.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

At its core, the framework is a collection of strategies and tools for finding inventive solutions to difficult problems. Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation. This might seem like a strange thing to say, but the most important thing to realise about Disruptive Innovation is that most people completely misinterpret it.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Check out these popular JTBD book recommendations. These Jobs to be Done books cover the skills and techniques of this framework in an easy to follow and understand way. Check out our lists of innovation books and design thinking books to read. Looking for even more literary choices to help you innovate? Get it here.

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Digital Tonto

JANUARY 28, 2024

But you don’t judge a strategy on what could have been, but on whether it solved the problem it was designed to solve. In researching my book, Mapping Innovation, I found that the most important thing that great innovators do differently is that they are actively seeking out new problems. And if you don’t invent, you will be disrupted.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

As Steve Blank puts it in his foreword to O’Reilly and Tushman’s latest book on the subject: Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma: Exploitation pays your salary while exploration pays your pension. No overall innovation strategy or portfolio. Multiple different innovation strategies.

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 31, 2023

When you recognize that things change ever so rapidly in the world, you may already feel disrupted before anything has even happened. The negative view many have about disruption is the result of it happening to you, causing you to have to manage a crisis. If you are in healthcare, what disruptions are the accounting industry facing?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

Someone wondered about the range of topics included in the disruptive innovation strategy workshop we delivered recently. We led the group through a customized Brainzooming Innovation Fake Book of exercises. 27 Links to Energize Your Innovation Strategy. What is the first innovation strategy question to ask?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

We were listening in on an internal innovation strategy call conducted by one of our clients. The key question was, “Where’s the beef with this innovation strategy?”. They seemed ready to jump through hoops to justify the innovation strategy to the CEO. 3 Questions When the Innovation Strategy ROI Doesn’t Satisfy the Boss.

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Matthew May

APRIL 24, 2015

And what appears to be strategy, isn’t. The third is the real surprise, showing up with alarming frequency in my strategy facilitation engagements. What so many people refer to as their strategy is in reality something else entirely. “Strategy doesn’t work in a fast-changing world.”

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Rmukesh Gupta

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Overview: I got a digital preview copy of this book via NetGalley. The book is about is basically about what do organizations (typically incumbent organizations) do to be successful at the business of disruption, the assumption being that it is unusual for the incumbents to disrupt themselves or their industries.

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Raynor has been a leading and consistent voice in the strategy and innovation ecosystem ever since his work with Clayton Christensen on ‘ The Innovator’s Solution ’ and his book ‘ The Strategy Paradox ’. Strategy is really a cross sectional game, and innovation is a longitudinal game.

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Stephen Shapiro

MAY 8, 2023

For the past few years, organizations have been reactively responding to disruptions caused by the pandemic. It is for this reason that I have been writing my seventh book. Note that this book will not be formally released for another year. The post My Next Innovation Book: PIVOTAL appeared first on Stephen Shapiro.

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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. For the larger companies , it's time to completely rethink your strategy and what innovation can do to help you.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 21, 2019

Innovation Language Unlike, say accounting, where assets are assets and liabilities are liabilities (I'm joking a little but there is a great amount of consistency in accounting) few innovation activities, deliverables or strategies are consistently defined. But what we say, what we frame and what we define matters.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Then, have a process for aligning strategy (which pulls you forward) with budgeting (which anchors you backward) with project governance (which is usually a total mess) with people’s incentives. She is consistently ranked among the Top 10 management thinkers in the world and was ranked #1 for strategy by Thinkers50. Twitter: rgmcgrath.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

To help innovation officers and wannabe innovators in their task, we’ve put together the best books to inspire you and help your company and workforce stay relevant. Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker In this classic book published in 1985, Peter F. High praise indeed.

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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. These answers can help us develop the right strategies to make learning an efficient part of our everyday lives. Find it on Amazon. Learning How to Learn. Find it on Amazon.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 9, 2018

She also says that Coke has a new strategy and purpose, innovating both around food and drinks as well as issues like packaging. She needs people who can understand the new strategy and help implement it. She's looking for people comfortable with creating and promoting change, who can help disrupt existing products and markets.

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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.

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BrainZooming

MAY 17, 2016

While there’s more to come in the months ahead, here are highlights of a couple of innovation strategy presentations this week to very different groups. Innovation Strategy in Your Organization – An Innovative Workplace Culture. Innovation Strategy across a Community – Forward to the Future.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 15, 2020

Our intended strategy moves suddenly into a deliberate strategy, and then somehow this gets abandoned or unrealized and slowly we replace this with an emergent strategy that is rapidly become our realized strategy that we present to the world, as a response to ‘factors outside our control’ for our often indifferent performance.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

Organizations have been plagued in the last two years by major shifts that have disrupted business and threatened their profitability. What models and strategies are implemented in your company to safeguard employee safety and health? What are your strategies to lower burnout and employee stress?

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Idea to Value

MAY 10, 2016

Amongst several other innovation thought leaders, he wanted to know my thoughts on what it takes to get large companies to be more willing to try out disruptive innovations. What’s the best way you’ve seen of fostering disruptive innovation in a large enterprise? Here were my answers to his three questions: 1.What’s

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