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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. 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.

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When Disruption Becomes Destructive: How Can Financial Services Companies Close the Innovation Gap?

Qmarkets

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. A customer-centric idea management software that’s open to existing customers or the public can bridge the gap between top-down ideas and customer realities. trillion to $1.0

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H. Innovations of the 21st Century era do not rely on one to discover secret codes of the universe. In fact, most of us own at least 4 of the 6 examples of Innovations of the 20th Century that I outlined above.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H. Innovations of the 21st Century era do not rely on one to discover secret codes of the universe. In fact, most of us own at least 4 of the 6 examples of Innovations of the 20th Century that I outlined above.

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Warm and Fuzzy at the Front End of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

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. The software solutions I allude too, well those clients interested or curious enough can contact me.

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H. Innovations of the 21st Century era do not rely on one to discover secret codes of the universe. In fact, most of us own at least 4 of the 6 examples of Innovations of the 20th Century that I outlined above.

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The University of Central Asia: Educational Innovation in the Mountains of Rural Kyrgyzstan

New Markets Advisors

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.