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Is It Possible for Companies to Over-Innovate?

IdeaScale

Innovation drives a company, but no company can live on innovation alone. Motorola’s RAZR and RIM’s BlackBerry were cutting-edge until 2007 when the iPhone arrived and made both of them utterly irrelevant in the time it took to explain what an “iPhone” even was. The post Is It Possible for Companies to Over-Innovate?

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Successful office investments in disruptive times

Norbert Bol

Looking at the amount of capital that is being raised by the tech-companies, it is to be expected that the relative traditional real estate is up for disruption. In my opinion offices will fulfill a need for companies and workers. Sustainability and innovation. Location perspective: we have learned our lesson! Norbert Bol.

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How Should Your Business Find the Next Big Thing?

IdeaScale

Disruptive or incremental innovation? The reality of innovation is usually far less dramatic, with hundreds of people at dozens of companies chipping away at a rock and discovering, to their surprise, that all those years of chipping have yielded a beautiful statue. Disruptive Innovation.

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Continuous Improvement and Breakthrough Innovation: Why You Need Both

IdeaScale

The iPhone was considered a true innovation back in 2007, opening up an entirely new approach to telecommunications and changing how people used phones forever. Major disruptions often happen because something (like people’s patience with the way things are) breaks. Breakthrough Innovation.

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Innovative Businesses Prioritize Creativity

Daniel Burrus

Most notably, older organizations are the ones that place creativity in one column and positive disruptions via innovation in another. Some have been through the Great Depression, world wars, the Great Recession of 2007–09, and now, most recently, the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent economic downturn.

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Adapt or die: lessons from 5 companies that failed to innovate

Idea Drop

It feels like the world is moving faster than ever, which means that companies in every sector have to prioritise agile innovation or risk becoming defunct. If it seems like many of the companies that you knew from childhood have vanished, it’s because they have. No company is too big, famous or secure to fail if it resists innovation.

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The New Game Or Is It? Asset Orchestration

Paul Hobcraft

Now Amazon is far from “asset heavy” when you compare them to the Industrial companies like GE but asset orchestration is seemingly getting far greater management time for all companies it seems. One highly relevant observation.

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