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You need a red team, not a red pill

Jeffrey Phillips

Those of us who watched the movie or have seen it on ubiquitous reruns, know what happens next. The metaverses we create for ourselves merely build on what we already know - they don't show us the hidden hands and string pullers behind the scenes. In the Matrix, Morpheus offers Neo the choice of a blue pill or a red pill.

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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. But of course, we wouldn’t want it to be the scenario for our company. Disruption. Why do we fail to identify disruptive innovation?

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How Technology is Empowering the Modern Property Manager

Business and Tech

The bias I had to overcome when we launched ResMan was the most difficult because of its impact on the company overall. At the time we were looking to raise capital (between 2011 and 2013), businesses with women on the executive team received only 7 percent of the venture funding.

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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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Innovation in action: Value prior learning, no matter where that learning happens

Christensen Institute

This is particularly important when it comes to adult learners who are coming to postsecondary learning with a lot of life experience—they’ve been in the workforce, they’ve been raising families, and/or they’ve been in the military. We found CPL shortened the degree-completion journey by 9 to 14 months in terms of time savings.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. We need to make some major changes with urgency and a depth of purpose.

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Covering Innovation My Way

Paul Hobcraft

Just trying to stay your own course is tough enough but with all the diversity of views it must be even more overwhelming for others who are asked to take on a role within innovation. Where and who do you turn too must be a real dilemma ? Everything we want to do is 100% focused on innovating! Its areas of focus: [link].