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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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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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. The abysmal job market for teens is forcing many of them to think differently about work.

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Four Innovation Paradoxes driving disruption

Innovation 360 Group

There are a number of well-documented key drivers for innovation and global disruption, as discussed in this blog. New entrants create new markets and destroy established markets. People from all over the world are competing in the talent market. Companies are born and cooperate globally in networks.

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Sorting through our Innovation Management Tools

Paul Hobcraft

The problem we are having, many of the traditional tools, many still taught in most management schools are lagging the changing market we are operating in. The latest one for 2015 is here. Disruptive Innovation Labs. On the 2015 list of Bain’s is Disruptive Innovation Labs.

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Make Digital Disruption Your Biggest Competitive Advantage

Daniel Burrus

In 1983, I identified digital disruption as one of twenty technology-driven Hard Trends that would increasingly shape the future at an exponential rate, and at the same time drive economic value creation. Today, as more and more industries and businesses become disrupted, it is important to understand that digital disruption happens in waves.

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When Disruption Becomes Destructive: How Can Financial Services Companies Close the Innovation Gap?

Qmarkets

Small, fast-moving start-ups are revolutionizing the global landscape with creative market-responsive solutions that are becoming increasingly accepted and utilized. The global peer-to-peer lending market, which efficiently matches providers of capital with users, was already valued at $26.16 billion in 2015. million workers.

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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. So, at the very least, automotive OEMs have a market perception problem. But I think that the problem runs deeper.