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Breakthrough Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

IdeaScale

Aren’t breakthrough innovation and disruptive innovation the same thing? After all, the car, the telephone, the smartphone, the electric car, the solar panel, weren’t these all breakthroughs that were also disruptive? It opens the company to new markets and changes the way customers interact with the market or the industry.

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Creating the conditions for disruptive innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

In what is probably one of the most revered books among innovators, Edward De Bono wrote about six "thinking" hats. The point of his book is to recognize and acknowledge that many people, either intentionally or often unintentionally, play roles or "wear hats" that represent a specific point of view. Outside the box?

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Breakthrough Innovation or Disruptive Innovation?

IdeaScale

A breakthrough can be an even bigger deal than a disruption. Aren’t breakthrough innovation and disruptive innovation the same thing? After all, the car, the telephone, the smartphone, the electric car, the solar panel, weren’t these all breakthroughs that were also disruptive? Not so with disruption.

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7 Must-Read Books on Innovation Strategy

IdeaScale

Deciphering Innovation: How Disruption Drives Companies to Transform or Die by Lisa Hendrickson and Jim Colwick . Disruption” is becoming an empty buzzword, but it remains true that small companies with big ideas can, and ultimately will, upend almost everything we currently think of as the rock-solid order.

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How To Create A Movement To Drive Transformation In Your Company Or Industry

Speaker: Greg Satell

Everybody has something they'd like to change, whether it is a problem in their organization, their industry, their community or society at large. But how can you get your ideas for change to take hold beyond a small circle of likeminded people? Through rich and vivid examples, he will explain how you make ideas spread.

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DISRUPTIVE THINKING

Michael Michalko

Disruptive Thinking is a concept that is based upon doing the opposite of what is expected/what convention tells you will be successful. One of the best examples I have heard of comes from a talk given by Luke Williams, which illustrates the potential of Disruptive Thinking. Disruptive technology is important to education.

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Is it Possible to Outpace Disruption? Definitely.

Daniel Burrus

When you recognize that things change ever so rapidly in the world, you may already feel disrupted before anything has even happened. The negative view many have about disruption is the result of it happening to you, causing you to have to manage a crisis. When the question of “How do we stay relevant?”