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You need a red team, not a red pill

Jeffrey Phillips

Red teams and blue teams originate from the military, where one team takes on the role of an attacker or proposes a strategy and another team seeks to disrupt or destroy the strategy. Trying to fend off all of these individuals, teams and the corporate culture at large is a daunting task.

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Identifying Opportunities for Disruptive Innovation

Strategos

We are drawn to stories of entrepreneurs who came up with brilliant ideas that disrupted the existing “rules of the game” by which industry players compete with one another. Disruption. A recent report by the Economist showed that 60% of company executives view disruption as a threat rather than an opportunity.

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Our inabilities to adapt needs changing.

Paul Hobcraft

They become fixed, rigid and locked into their established ways, not adapting to the changes occurring around them. Then it becomes a mad scramble to transform ourselves, often with damaging consequences of deteriorating performance, battling more competition that are sensing our weakness, never capable of returning to those previous highs.

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Generation (I)nnovation: Why Today's Teens Instinctively Understand Disruption

Mills-Scofield

I am honored to host Whitney Johnson's post as part of the launch of her new book, Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. As of 2011, only 26% of teens were employed. Which meant she needed to earn nearly $3,000.

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Options-based Strategy: An Approach for Uncertain Times

The Inovo Group

What is needed is a new strategic framework that serves both the current, increasingly competitive, situation as well as providing a strategic path through an uncertain future. By 2011, they had several established stores in the Washington DC area and were ready to expand. They foresaw that customer preferences were changing.

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Digital transformation – the need to transform our innovation approaches

Paul Hobcraft

This is as he puts it transformation with a big capital “T” because it involves changing the very essence of a company. I like this as a definition to tighten down digital but it opens us up to the darker side of digital transformation, the risk of digital disruption. His final one has the most promise and peril, that is strategic.

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Digital transformation – the need to transform our innovation approaches

Paul Hobcraft

This is as he puts it transformation with a big capital “T” because it involves changing the very essence of a company. I like this as a definition to tighten down digital but it opens us up to the darker side of digital transformation, the risk of digital disruption. His final one has the most promise and peril, that is strategic.