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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. Yet doing a good job evaluating ideas and the markets and conditions they will be launched into is vital.

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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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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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. The abysmal job market for teens is forcing many of them to think differently about work.

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7 Things Every CEO Should Know About Their Patents

Anaqua

Even in the most extreme cases where there is a perfect intersection of data, analytics, valuable metrics, and huge incentives to utilize and optimize, we see both surprising catastrophic failures, and stunning opportunites in markets. End of 2011 $1,578. End of 2011 $48 (net of accumulated amortization of $1,114). billion ($2.9

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

New Markets Advisors

Credit: UCA Before I joined New Markets Advisors as an Associate, I was on the team that opened the University of Central Asia ’s Naryn campus in Kyrgyzstan for its inaugural 2016–2017 school year. Meanwhile, players like Coursera or coding bootcamps are disrupting traditional education.

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Our inabilities to adapt needs changing.

Paul Hobcraft

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. Adapting the business model to the needs and desires of the market. This is where breakthroughs live.

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Covering Innovation My Way

Paul Hobcraft

You do need to find out more of the emerging Work to be done approach as it is a far more dynamic place for innovation to happen.The W ork-to-be-done is focused on connecting to the emerging areas of Organizational need being faced in today’s rapidly changing markets and diminishing resources. Its areas of focus: [link].