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7 Must-Read Books on Innovation Strategy

IdeaScale

Deciphering Innovation: How Disruption Drives Companies to Transform or Die by Lisa Hendrickson and Jim Colwick . Disruption” is becoming an empty buzzword, but it remains true that small companies with big ideas can, and ultimately will, upend almost everything we currently think of as the rock-solid order.

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Disruptive Innovation: Drones

Collective Innovation

The story of drones is much like the story of any other disruptive innovation. As with all disruptive innovations if you walked into a store and bought a $60 drone the technology and cost of that would have been astronomical 15 years ago, perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars to build.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

2008), or, more simply, the value proposition (Teece 2010). According to the degree of innovation, innovations can be divided into evolutionary and disruptive innovations. Disruptive innovations are innovations that radically change existing structures and markets (Pisano, 2015). What Is Disruptive Innovation?

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

New generations, societal change, sustainable goals and disruptive technology require organizations to be much more flexible, self-reinventing organisms that don’t fit above-mentioned design principles. 2) and has been widely studied (i.e. Journal of Management Studies, 47(6), 1154–1191. Academic Relevance. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00880.x.

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

job losses skyrocketed during the peak recession years 2008-2010 Given the devastating impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis, it’s little wonder that companies worldwide are sensitive to omens of a new “great recession”. to see where disruptive innovation efforts could best be concentrated. portfolio scouting campaigns , etc. –

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Understand Trends, Identify Strategic Fields of Innovation and Create something entirely New

ITONICS

We cannot predict the future, but from the companies’ perspective, however, it is essential to identify, interpret, understand and react to the corresponding signals or disruptions in their environment at an early stage. 1998; Horx, 2010; Liebl & Hermann, 1996). 2010 and Köpernik, 2009). What is a trend? European Inst.

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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

Driven by advancing technologies, accelerating connectivity, and changing attitudes towards employment, organisations are operating in a dynamic environment – one where fast-growing start-ups are disrupting traditional business models and AI is replacing human labour. The digital revolution. What skills will be needed for the future of work?