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Agile Strategy – 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Disruptive Innovation

BrainZooming

Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Agile Strategy and Disruptive Innovation. How can you develop a super-agile process that disrupts other industry players’ competitive advantages? via Shutterstock. Developing an Agile Strategy.

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Keeping Up is a Fool’s Game

Daniel Burrus

Keeping up—with technology, with the competition, with anything in business or life—is what some would call a fool’s game. Asking these questions enables you to go beyond your competition and get off the treadmill of keeping up. There’s just one problem. Think about it: When you’re merely keeping up, what’s the advantage?

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Disrupting Markets – Why PayPal Is Worth More Than Ebay

Adam Hartung

eBay has run into stiff competition, as CraigsList has grown to take over the “garage sale” and small local business ecommerce. Because once in a growth stall the company has already missed the market shift, and competition is taking customers quickly in new directions. So eBay bought fledgling PayPal for $1.5B

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Retaining the innovative spark

Jeffrey Phillips

Competition is accelerating, of course, and so is innovation. Safe in their market leadership, both dominated their markets - film and cell phones - until new competitors with different technologies or platforms emerged. In 1920 the average life expectancy of a firm on the S&P 500 was 67 years. Today it is 15 years.

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

Idea Drop

They filed for bankruptcy in 2012. The leadership team had such confidence in the importance of their shop floor experience that they couldn’t understand why anyone would ever opt for a cheaper product. Lesson: If you don’t do it, someone else will. Lesson: Experience is only one element of your customer journey.

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Axel Springer & External Innovation. How to turn “Spray and Pray” into “Spray and Succeed”?

CREATORS

Today’s competitive market has made it both trendy?—?and Today, Financial Times Germany has ceased to exist (more specifically, closed all its operations on December 7th 2012), yet Axel Springer?—?the All this is happening in an industry regarded as a “sinking ship” and highly exposed to disruption. and necessary?—?for

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Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility

ImagineNation

It’s even worse if an innovation program is truly disruptive, with the potential to cannibalize the existing business. The only way for it to survive is to be separated from its internal competition. Yet if the company’s immune system rejects this type of innovation, some competitors may claim that disruptive territory for itself.

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