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How Should Your Business Find the Next Big Thing?

IdeaScale

Disruptive or incremental innovation? The former is disruptive innovation and although rare, it can happen, while the latter is incremental innovation. Disruptive Innovation. Disruptive innovation enjoys a certain blindness in our way of thinking: We remember successes, not mistakes.

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The New Game Or Is It? Asset Orchestration

Paul Hobcraft

They might be operating at the two ends of the current internet trading spectrum and are coming from different market maturity positions but it is the asset management that is becoming critical for delivering the profit or dragging performance. I quote “I’d say Amazon are “ asset heavy ” whereas Alibaba remains “asset light”.

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Innovation Insights from Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Destination Innovation

Yet that is what they did in 2007 with the launch of the Kindle. In 2014 Amazon entered the smartphone market with the release of the Fire Phone. Disrupt your own business before someone else does. He wanted to own that segment of the market too and to prevent a competitor from seizing it. Lessons for Innovators.

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The Role of Innovation in New Product Development: Three Approaches for Success

Qmarkets

They have factored in evaluation and collaboration techniques from their target market – their community members, resulting in products that are directly aligned with existing demand. Had these manufacturers taken on Dyson’s prototype they would have had a breakthrough product in their market.

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Treating Discovery Like Execution Will Kill Innovation

Tim Kastelle

“Why aren’t they market entry problems?” The program was originally designed as part of Wharton’s marketing program – so the projects were conceived as market entry problems, exactly as Steve said. ” he replied. I was stumped by his question for a couple of days. What causes the difference?

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

From 2003 to 2007, I have been in charge of the R&D project portfolio management line of business at a solution provider. This can be considered as an underused asset, just like if a company was not using a part of its channels to sell its products or was not using a given production line to its full capacity to meet market demand.

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How to Take Meaning from a Black Swan Event

The Inovo Group

The COVID-19 pandemic, a fifty-percent drop in the price of crude oil, and the knock-on effects to businesses and markets have upset the global order. It will be some time before we know the full extent of the impact, but for now it’s clear that the short-term economic disruption is considerable. The Black Swan (2007).

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