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Innovation & Strategy Conference: Driving Home Disruption

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Karen Madden , VP Technology and Innovation of PerkinElmer, provided first-hand experience and advice on how big corporations can drive impact by cooperating with startups: “It’s not an option anymore, if you don’t team up with the disruptive, you’re going to get disrupted.”

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Mixed Reality For The Rest Of Us Is Finally Here

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Back in 2009, nestled in the heart of Silicon Valley, I was part of a vibrant innovation program at Yahoo, a company that once commanded a considerable footprint in the tech world. For five years, I steered this program, spearheading the development of an array of unique products that sprouted from the fertile minds of…

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how to discover the secrets of great new products: do the least you can do, fake it before you make it, and don’t be afraid of embarrassment

helloFUTURE

The definition of a Minimum Viable Product varies greatly – but in the purest sense, it should be “the least you can do” For example, I co-founded a startup in 2009 with two ex-Yahoo colleagues.

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Is vertical integration the next value-based care?

Christensen Institute

Harvard Business School Module Note, August 2009 (revised November 2021). The four components of a health care business model Note: This graphic was originally published by Clayton M. Christensen and Mark W. Johnson, “What Are Business Models, and How Are They Built?” It has been modified to focus on health care business models.

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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. This can certainly be viewed as a positive feat: For a company like Citibank to withstand so many outside disruptions, they have to be doing something right!

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A whole-health approach to skin care: Could hormones explain your skin issues?

Christensen Institute

Given its focus on the underlying causes of skin health, in this analysis, I’ll assess Veracity’s disruptive potential compared to seeing a dermatologist for aesthetic skin problems. Does its whole-health approach to skin care pose disruptive potential in the health care market? We put Veracity to our six-question test to find out.

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COVID-19: Business R&D Spending Will Fall by at Least 5-6%

Commodore Innovation

As individuals we are grappling with the fear, disruption and uncertainty brought about by COVID-19. Innovation teams are not, of course, immune to this disruption. Great Recession (late-2007 to mid-2009): R&D spending didn’t decline until 2009 (by 5.2%), but the decline continued into 2010 (0.4%).

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