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Students need internships, but internships need disrupting

Christensen Institute

Strada and Burning Glass Institute’s new Talent Disrupted report made headlines this week conveying the indisputable crisis of underemployment that an astounding half of college graduates face. But internships—like so many pricey and scarce experiential learning opportunities—are primed for disruption.

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Breakthrough Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

IdeaScale

Aren’t breakthrough innovation and disruptive innovation the same thing? 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? Disruptive innovation and breakthrough innovation can overlap.

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Innovation project or Innovation Capability?

Jeffrey Phillips

No, today I want to talk about the differences and problems when companies focus on innovation as a discrete project, versus what they really need, innovation as a competency or capability. Plus, innovation as a project demonstrates some investment in innovation but controls for cost and risk.

Project 209
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Use a Strategy Uncertainty Map to Find Clarity in Disruptive Times

Leapfrogging

The past two years were as disruptive as they get for both society and business. A Strategy Uncertainty Map is a visual representation of your top opportunities, which can include products, services, projects, or business strategies. You might want to select of mix of low-risk and high-risk projects so you can hedge bets.

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Navigating the Shift from Project to Product: A Map for Success 

Planview

The secret lies in transitioning from a project-oriented management approach to a product-centric model. Despite beginning with unwavering enthusiasm, McKinsey reports that initiatives often lose approximately 42 percent of their projected value as they progress into later implementation stages and long-term sustainability.

Project 69
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CONTROLLED DISRUPTION [CASE STUDY]

Flying Fish Lab

A few years ago, we were faced with exactly such a situation, for a Vaseline project. So this particular project was already challenging from this perspective. Utter success, from a project perspective, only possible because we knew when to “Stick” and when to “Twist”.

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Innovation or Disruption: What’s Your Aim?

IdeaScale

The terms “innovation” and “disruption” are commonly used in today’s business world. Disruption is innovation, but not all innovation is disruption, just like all squares are technically rectangles , but not all rectangles are squares. What Disruption Does. Disruption has elements of both destruction and creation.