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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Idea to Value

This can be especially dangerous when the problem they are avoiding is that they are being disrupted , other companies are out-innovating them, an important project is off-target or performance KPIs are falling behind. In an CNBC article , the culture at Volkswagen under CEO Martin Winterkorn was one based on fear. Volkswagen.

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

Evaluating breakthrough innovation cultures and organization s, BCG concludes in their annual 2014 study: By definition, breakthrough innovation is the introduction of new ideas that drive a different way of doing things. Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach.

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Sorting through our Innovation Management Tools

Paul Hobcraft

The latest one for 2015 is here. They are positioning themselves on a mission to find the right remedy for designing future growth engines by wanting to fill that gap by creating a set of tools for business strategy, business design and innovation. Disruptive Innovation Labs. Tracking the trends on Management Tools.

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The Innovation-Driven Disruption of the Automotive Value Chain (Part 2)

Corporate Innovation

In this blog I explore what the automotive industry has been doing to address the potential disruption, analyze the effects of these initial steps, and provide recommendations on what corporations could be doing better. Moreover, culturally automotive companies prefer to at best be fast followers , rather than a first movers.

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The Innovation-Driven Disruption of the Automotive Value Chain (Part 2)

Corporate Innovation

In this blog I explore what the automotive industry has been doing to address the potential disruption, analyze the effects of these initial steps, and provide recommendations on what corporations could be doing better. Moreover, culturally automotive companies prefer to at best be fast followers , rather than a first movers.

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Sofie Lindblom

Innovation 360 Group

in Engineering and Media Technology from Linköping University, Sweden. 2015 she gave two TEDx Talks: “IT girls are the new it girls” about challenging stereotypes and “All that glitters is not gold” about finding your passion by living life as a prototype. Fostering Innovation Cultures. Disruptive Technology. Background.

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The Innovation-Driven Disruption of the Automotive Value Chain (Part 3)

Corporate Innovation

In a previous post I wrote about the disruptive innovations that have been introduced by Tesla Motors (Tesla) and Uber and presented the steps the automotive industry should be taking in order to address the startup-driven disruption. Startups must realize that they cannot disrupt the entire automotive industry.