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How One African 'Misruptive' Innovation Company is Storming a Key US Market

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

A South African start-up is rapidly defining a new kind of business disruption in the US tech sector.& & Call it “mis-ruptive” innovation: breaking into a major new market by accident – and then storming that market by sticking to the same, humble business model devised for the original market.&

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Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility

ImagineNation

It takes a lot of empathy, patience and healthy detachment to provide for the immediate needs of the people on the margins of society and to help them find permanent solutions to their many problems – innovation a company-wide responsibility. Some authors in the innovation space claim that innovation requires a special kind of person.

Company 52
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Disruptive Innovation: Drones

Collective Innovation

Indeed, these little gizmos are flying delivery trucks for many companies. Major companies such as Microsof t, Amazon, and UPS are developing fleets of drones for the sake of business. The story of drones is much like the story of any other disruptive innovation. It is not a science fiction movie at all.

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Disrupting Markets – Why PayPal Is Worth More Than Ebay

Adam Hartung

And far more companies have learned they can go it alone with internet sales, using search engine optimization (SEO) techniques as well as social media to drive traffic directly to their stores, bypassing storefronts entirely. But it almost never happens – because the market shift is making their offering obsolete.

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Agile Strategy – 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Disruptive Innovation

BrainZooming

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence profiled a Bloomberg Businessweek story on Fanatics , the sports apparel manufacturer and marketer, in its Inside the Executive Suite. Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. via Shutterstock. Developing an Agile Strategy.

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Adapt or die: lessons from 5 companies that failed to innovate

Idea Drop

It feels like the world is moving faster than ever, which means that companies in every sector have to prioritise agile innovation or risk becoming defunct. If it seems like many of the companies that you knew from childhood have vanished, it’s because they have. They filed for bankruptcy in 2012.

Company 68
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Guest Blog – Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility

ImagineNation

It takes a lot of empathy, patience and healthy detachment to provide for the immediate needs of the people on the margins of society and to help them find permanent solutions to their many problems – innovation a company-wide responsibility. Some authors in the innovation space claim that innovation requires a special kind of person.

Company 40