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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.

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Generative AI will fuel loneliness: Do we care enough to combat it? 

Christensen Institute

As detailed in this Atlantic article from 2017 , and reaffirmed by Jonathan Haidt’s latest research , smartphones were not a smart bet for our mental health. They hurt children, especially girls , but the harm isn’t limited to children. Smartphones enabled adults to date, make friends, interact, engage with politics, etc.,

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5 Innovation Trends of 2018 that will Disrupt the Corporate Landscape in 2019

Qmarkets

Companies across multiple sectors have launched collaborative efforts to gather disruptive new ideas, harness new technologies, and achieve greater sustainability. We saw evidence of this throughout 2017, and it will be critical for marketers to understand these new behaviours as they move into 2018”. Empathy mapping – i.e

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. — In June 2017, the board “retired” Jeff Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. So far in 2017, GE is the worst performing stock on the Dow Jones Industrial average. At GE the biggest problem in 2017 was major revenue misses in their Power business.)

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Andy Reid Borrows Innovative Ideas. Do you?

BrainZooming

Then, on opening night in 2017, Reid’s Chiefs roughed up the defending Super Bowl-champion Patriots with an offence that looked like nothing the league had ever seen.”. “In If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. on North Dakota State’s film.”. appeared first on The Brainzooming Group.

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Why Today Is a Great Day to Be Out of the Corporate World

BrainZooming

Our primary contact saw me speak in 2014 at Compete Through Service Symposium produced by the Arizona State University Center for Services Leadership and subscribed to the Brainzooming blog email. He changed jobs early in 2017 and re-subscribed to the blog with his new company’s email address. Brainzooming Has an Answer!

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Why “Path-to-Value” is Crucial for Corporate Innovators

Imaginatik

Recent conversations with a new Imaginatik client, from late 2017, have stuck with me these past few months. In recent years, more and more enterprises have begun building Innovation Labs, deliberately entering the disruption game. If this notion is not already in your vernacular, it needs to be. The main issue is a lack of focus.