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In defense of industry-agnostic innovation management

David Marks

Companies get away with it because most of the time the competition does indeed comes from existing players. Back in 2006 the duo reigned supreme in the mobile phone market. Marketing departments would identify the consumer excitement around the iPhone and raise the alarm. A ‘better the devil we know’ attitude.

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Why take an industry-agnostic approach to innovation

David Marks

Companies get away with it because most of the time the competition does indeed comes from existing players. Back in 2006 the duo reigned supreme in the mobile phone market. Marketing departments would identify the consumer excitement around the iPhone and raise the alarm. A ‘better the devil we know’ attitude.

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In defense of industry-agnostic innovation management

David Marks

Companies get away with it because most of the time the competition does indeed comes from existing players. Back in 2006 the duo reigned supreme in the mobile phone market. Marketing departments would identify the consumer excitement around the iPhone and raise the alarm. A ‘better the devil we know’ attitude.

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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. Mac’s unique features were shadowed by the premium price.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., 2006) and are more likely to be created by making new and unique combinations (S. Shane, 2003).

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Give Yourself Permission to Scale

Leanstack

You only need to go faster than your closest competition to win. If you can outlearn your closest competition, you win.” And your constraints haven’t been technical risks, but customer and market risks. That’s how they got to market with a road-ready vehicle in under 3 years?—?which Steve is motionless.