article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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. In 2011, customers were saying “Wow.

article thumbnail

7 Things Every CEO Should Know About Their Patents

Anaqua

Those that are creative in utilizing existing data, combining internal and external data analytics, and innovate in ways to improve aligning R&D and IP with business objectives, will find opportunities for competitive advantage. End of 2011 $1,578. End of 2011 $48 (net of accumulated amortization of $1,114). billion ($2.9

Roadmap 40
article thumbnail

When Pundits Say That Robots Will Take Our Jobs, Remember These 4 Things

Innovation Excellence

So training tellers to process transactions efficiently was a key competitive trait. What’s more, these aren’t considered competitive traits, but commodity services. Clearly, by automating the book buying process, Amazon disrupted superstore book retailers like Barnes & Noble and Borders. Consider the case of bookstores.

article thumbnail

The University of Central Asia: Educational Innovation in the Mountains of Rural Kyrgyzstan

New Markets Advisors

With the insights I’ve since gained at New Markets, I’d like to examine the University of Central Asia (UCA) through the lens of disruptive innovation and Jobs to Be Done, two concepts popularized by Clayton Christensen, the author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. The current university system is being disrupted, and this is only the beginning.