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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

Every company needs to simultaneously optimize their existing business model (sustain) and search for the next evolution of the business model (disrupt). A brief history of the Continuous Innovation Framework The early scaffolding for the Continuous Innovation Framework was described in my first book: Running Lean.

LEAN 76
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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

Every company needs to simultaneously optimize their existing business model (sustain) and search for the next evolution of the business model (disrupt). A brief history of the Continuous Innovation Framework The early scaffolding for the Continuous Innovation Framework was described in my first book: Running Lean.

LEAN 40
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Pivotal Innovation Management: The Past, Present, and Future of 180° Business Changes

Qmarkets

With so much disruptive innovation happening so fast, it has become less and less rare for companies to be formed around a service or product that defines them for their lifetime. Rising competition from Apple and Google caught Nokia out of position and led to near-bankruptcy in 2012.

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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. Yet if the company’s immune system rejects this type of innovation, some competitors may claim that disruptive territory for itself. This type of program may even mean short-term losses for the core business.

Company 52
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Why Corporations Need “Coopetition” with Startups

KindlingApp

Startup swami Eric Ries’ essential book The Lean Startup defines a startup as “a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty”, which implies an essential element of innovation. When seen through this lens, the disrupting startup is not the enemy.

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Guest Blog – 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. Yet if the company’s immune system rejects this type of innovation, some competitors may claim that disruptive territory for itself. This type of program may even mean short-term losses for the core business.

Company 40
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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

find new ideas and examples to disrupt your industry. Some of the most notable and disruptive inventions of tomorrow will require a paradigmatic change in the way we interpret things today, in the way we perform tasks, in the technologies and resources we have access to. What if all your employees were freelancers?