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How 3 companies used disruptive innovation to transform their industries

Idea Drop

Christensen, the term ‘ disruptive innovation ’ refers to a new entrant into a market who eventually disrupts and outperforms the established players. The process begins with a new company addressing a gap in the market, where a segment of the population has traditionally been overlooked. Coined by Clayton M.

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So What Exactly Should Kodak Have Done?

Destination Innovation

Business commentators and writers commonly quote Kodak as an example of a company that was destroyed by disruptive innovation. The usual message is that the big company was just too slow and complacent to react to the obvious tsunami that digital photography represented for the film industry. The facts are dramatic.

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Disruptive Innovation: Drones

Collective Innovation

The story of drones is much like the story of any other disruptive innovation. These proved helpful in the Gulf War and by 2001 the technology had advanced to the point that the drones could be outfitted with Hellfire missiles. Drones do an awful lot for various industries, but there are some overriding concerns.

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Make Digital Disruption Your Biggest Competitive Advantage

Daniel Burrus

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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The Rise of Product Management

Moves the Needle

The memo that started it all sounds more like modern product marketing than product management, but your mileage may vary. The primary function was to serve as the bridge between Engineering and Marketing. Ken Beer was the Director of Product Management and reported into the Marketing department. I had never heard of Agile.

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Understanding the future leads to better innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm a big believer that success in life, as in innovation, is about understanding the future and bringing products and solutions to the market just as the market realizes its needs. In other words, the journey from here to there is a straight line with few disruptions or deviations. As many of you loyal readers know (thanks Mom!)

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Four Ways To Become A Successful Future-Fit Organization

PlanBox Innovation

In 2001, the Agile movement suggested a new way of approaching that work more efficiently. The digital revolution has decimated entire industries and forced wholesale transformations. In the late 1990s, as the Age of the Customer was in full bloom, it was clear that the old ways of working were no longer going to cut it.

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