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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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#2,051 – 2021 Breakthrough Nominee: vTubers

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

One of the ways that my life changed the most in 2020 was starting a new routine of watching YouTube before going to bed thanks to my discovery of ASMR videos that help me fall asleep. Before that I never really watched anything on YouTube, not crazy cat videos, Dude Perfect trick shots, unboxing videos, or gaming streams.

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Innovation Insights from Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Destination Innovation

Bezos diversified his product range first with CDs and videos followed by electronic goods, toys and clothes. Sales leapt from half a million dollars in 1995 to $17 billion in 2011. Disrupt your own business before someone else does. In 2013, he purchased The Washington Post newspaper. Lessons for Innovators.

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Good Ideas Often go Nowhere: Here’s What You Can Do About It

The Inovo Group

At the beginning of 2021, Zoom Video Communications (Zoom) had a market capitalization of $116B. Yuan was Cisco’s vice president of engineering and in 2011 he pitched a new smartphone-friendly video conferencing system to Cisco management. In frustration, Yuan left Cisco to establish his own company, Zoom Video Communications.

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The Founder, Innovation On Film

Gregg Fraley

The Founder , starring Michael Keaton as McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc , is the best film about innovation since Moneyball in 2011. The heartbreak, failures, disruption of relationships, the seemingly impossible odds — and the unethical behavior. Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc in The Founder. The Founder, Lessons in Innovation.

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

Even though the Mac business was picking up, it was only in 2001, with the release of the iPOD (now retired) disrupting the digital music market, did Apple start soaring. Video games became more popular. Disruption just wasn’t working for the Billund-based company. (His It is a story of disruptive innovation.

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The 8 great talks from 8 years of Union

100%Open

Find out more in the video below. We’ve known the self-styled gorilla geographer since he won the first ever GeoVation challenge in 2011, and since then he has gone on to found the amazing campaign to make London the world’s first national city park. How does it work? Daniel Raven-Ellison – London National Park City.