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Find inspiration behind these 3 surprising market creation stories

Christensen Institute

Despite these features Simon was a flop and only stayed on the market for six months. The modern day smartphone market truly took off in the 2000s, with the introduction of the iPhone. It took a design change, adding ruffled cuffs to the fork, to encourage adoption.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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Congressional testimony on higher ed: Allow for innovation, incentivize student outcomes

Christensen Institute

Here is my recorded testimony, prepared in text below, on why accreditation needs an innovation overhaul and the need to focus on student learning outcomes instead of institutional inputs. There’s a saying in efficient markets for goods and services. Not learning. Taxpayers are as well. The customer is always right.

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How Should Your Business Find the Next Big Thing?

IdeaScale

If you take every product even companies most celebrated for innovation have ever taken to market, you won’t find a very high batting average of success. The value of this strategy is it forces you to look past the belief that what you already have is working, so why change it? appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Celebrate Pride Month by Recognizing the Role of Diversity in Innovation

IdeaScale

While Amundsen had plenty of experience navigating tundra and polar areas, when he arrived in Canada and met the local Inuit tribes, he learned their language and bartered not for food or supplies, but for knowledge. The diverse teams fit the market price 58% better than the homogenous ones. Making Innovation Inclusive.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

Learnings from sports competitions Competition in business is similar to sports competitions – there are winners and losers. You don’t need to “reinvent the wheel” for small but innovative changes in your business model, instead get inspired by existing concepts in other industries and apply them to your business model.

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9 Way Bailey’s Irish Cream Can Help You Innovate

IdeaScale

On December 3rd, 2007, Diageo announced the sale of the billionth bottle of Baileys since it was first introduced in 1973. Good ideas need to exist in a marketplace where leaders and people with authority can learn about them and then take a chance on and invest in good ideas. Lesson Five: Ideas Need to be Marketed.