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Innovation & Strategy Conference: Driving Home Disruption

Yet2

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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Is vertical integration the next value-based care?

Christensen Institute

Harvard Business School Module Note, August 2009 (revised November 2021). But, as discussed in a recent piece on The Health Care Blog, Jeff Goldsmith argues this is likely due to the market conditions in Kaiser’s original market as opposed to its vertical strategy. Christensen and Mark W.

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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?

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Vitamins Don't Have a Triggering Event

Leanstack

the Great Recession of 2009: Uber, Slack, Airbnb. Yes, no matter how disruptive your offering, there is always an old way. The inability to overcome consumer inertia (habit) and friction (anxiety) is the reason why most first-to-market products fail. Oil Embargo recession 1970s: Microsoft, Apple. Unicorns, anyone?

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

As McKinsey points out , organizations that focused on innovation even during the 2009 crisis, outperformed the market average by 30% and their growth continued to accelerate the following years as well. You might have guessed that it depends on the industry, market, and specifics of the organization.

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The new ROI for digital innovation

Paul Hobcraft

They see a market is in that specific need of the Amazon treatment, then they are on it. The Monitor Institute wrote a report released in 2009 on impact investing and it provides an excellent overview of what needs to happen. We are cutting across borders, teaming up with start-up’s, past competitors to seize these opportunities.

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Qmarkets & Amer Sports – An Innovative Partnership that Created Unprecedented Employee Engagement

Qmarkets

From mobile innovation solutions to analog internal marketing, gamification, and employee meeting spaces, read our case study to learn all about Amer Sports' approach to innovation today. Amer’s R&D team grew from 487 people at the close of 2009 to 802 people at the close of 2016 – amounting to 9% of all employees and 9.5%