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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills-Scofield

Blue Lobster at the South Bristol Coop , 2004. When you get enough of them together, you create a blue lobster organization – one that creates positive disruption. Innovation may be a designated job residing in a small part of the organization instead of throughout the culture. What’s with blue lobsters? You can’t stop them.

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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills-Scofield

Blue Lobster at the South Bristol Coop , 2004. When you get enough of them together, you create a blue lobster organization – one that creates positive disruption. Innovation may be a designated job residing in a small part of the organization instead of throughout the culture. What’s with blue lobsters? You can’t stop them.

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On the Origin of Companies

David Marks

Similarly to the natural world, weaker and ill-suited companies will prosper during good times, roaming the markets, making profits and gathering fat. They differ in their culture, openness to change and new ideas. The disruptibility curve maps a company on two axes: The Natural Monopoly and the Customer responsiveness.

Company 40
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On the Origin of Companies

David Marks

Similarly to the natural world, weaker and ill-suited companies will prosper during good times, roaming the markets, making profits and gathering fat. They differ in their culture, openness to change and new ideas. The disruptibility curve maps a company on two axes: The Natural Monopoly and the Customer responsiveness.

Company 40
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Organizing for Simultaneous Innovation Capability – key findings from +1,000 companies, republished from Drucker Forum 2016

Innovation 360 Group

In times when the market dynamics, technology development, and diffusion are faster than ever, it is a natural question. All companies have a conscious or unconscious strategy, leadership, culture, capabilities, and competencies they use to improve and innovate business internally (e.g. processes) and externally (e.g.

Company 40
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Organizing for Simultaneous Innovation Capability – key findings from +1,000 companies, republished from Drucker Forum 2016

Innovation 360

In times when the market dynamics, technology development, and diffusion are faster than ever, it is a natural question. All companies have a conscious or unconscious strategy, leadership, culture, capabilities, and competencies they use to improve and innovate business internally (e.g. processes) and externally (e.g.

Company 40
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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

It was close to bankruptcy in the late 1990s with rivals BM, Dell and HP eating up the market. The company had a paltry 4 percent market share and losses of over $1 billion. Market expansion was what Apple needed, not a sizable chunk of the PC market. Disruption just wasn’t working for the Billund-based company.