Daniel Burrus

JUNE 5, 2019

Now, not everyone has it in their homes because YouTube TV, Sling TV, and other new, emerging technologies have disrupted the broadcast industry. Why did they become the disrupted and not the disruptor? A key to success for a company that’s facing disruption–adopt a strategy of embrace and extend.

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Rmukesh Gupta

AUGUST 20, 2019

Overview: — I got this book as an advance review copy. Rita McGrath has produced another stunning book, in a way even better than her earlier book “The End of Competitive advantage”. You can pre-order the book here. Ease of reading: — The book is not only easy to read.

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Daniel Burrus

JULY 31, 2019

Strategies based on uncertainty come with high levels of risk, but strategies based on certainty dramatically reduce risk and produce superior results. The smart watch business is already filled with competition; however, by using Hard Trends, you can stack the deck in your favor. Paying attention to a certainty is a strategy.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 5, 2022

This was one of the first books that I read that made me really interested in the work at the Christensen Institute, and I continue to refer to its insights as I continue my work with some of today’s most impactful innovators. This book may just be the guide for those companies in growth markets.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 9, 2017

When the competition launches a new product, how do you react? In short, you use agility to change directions and head the competition off at the pass. Think about some of the most powerful, most industry-disruptive products and services that have become well-known of late. But what if you could skip that pivot altogether?

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 5, 2018

The new game, as demonstrated by a number of emerging disrupters, is captured in the book Unscaled and discussed at length in this nice blog post - one I wish I could have written. There are a couple of overlapping points here, but the main idea is that scale as a competitive weapon is increasingly passe.

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New Markets Advisors

MAY 29, 2019

For years, Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath has been telling us that the traditional strategy of finding and exploiting a sustainable competitive advantage is becoming outdated. The world is evolving too quickly for competitive advantages to last for a meaningful amount of time. Or so the argument goes.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 9, 2018

She also says that Coke has a new strategy and purpose, innovating both around food and drinks as well as issues like packaging. She needs people who can understand the new strategy and help implement it. She's looking for people comfortable with creating and promoting change, who can help disrupt existing products and markets.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Rather, it’s an effective strategy to uncover different opportunities by identifying innovative ideas that counter what most consider conventional thinking in the moment. The Law of Opposites can also be very useful in overcoming competitive obstacles that, at first glance, might appear insurmountable.

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MSSBTI

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

It is also the disruption that constantly changes our business models, our strategies and our world as we know it. Some of the more popular examples of business “disruption” include Netflix disrupting the video rental world, Amazon disrupting the retail world and streaming technology disrupting the music world.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2020

This is the second in a series of articles about the convergence of strategy and innovation. For more information about the series, and a list of published and upcoming articles, please visit A New Era of Strategy and Innovation. Most strategies are built on specific beliefs about the future. Highlights.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

They envision something utterly different—something that has the power to disrupt an entire landscape and open people’s eyes to something completely new. Strategy based on certainty has low risk compared to strategy based on uncertainty. Think Exponentially.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Each of these hugely disruptive technological innovations has provided the society with a platform to build on top of, which leads to an extended period, typically 30-50 years, of highly accelerated economic growth. They refer to these foundational and disruptive innovations as innovation platforms. What should your organization do?

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

So let me tell you what this is all about, and I will describe this with heavy referencing from Geoffrey Moore’s book “ Dealing with Darwin “ Without a doubt, one of my favourite books in how it helped me piece together a large part of my dynamic innovation fitness puzzle. First, you have the internal view.

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Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 8, 2016

The opportunity to proactively leverage disruptive events in an effort to leapfrog the competition and actually accelerate results. Exciting new management concepts such as The Law of the 21st Century Business Jungle*, Age of Disruption Principles*, and the 21st Century Competitiveness Cycle*.

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 29, 2020

This strategy of playing it safe couldn’t be any more wrong; you should not “wait and see” what 2020 has to offer because technology-driven exponential change and digital disruption will not stop! Disruption Doesn’t “Wait and See”. For example, 2020 is an election year in the U.S., Going Opposite. The Cost of “No” in 2020.

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PlanBox Innovation

MAY 31, 2022

In her book, The Fearless Organization , professor Amy C. This is especially true for high-growth opportunities that are disruptive in nature, which require additional tinkering over a long-term horizon, as per McKinsey’s three horizons model. You need to make sure that you have a gamification strategy.

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Strategos

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Prahalad first introduced this concept in 1990 and since then many organisations have used this to define strategy and drive business creation and growth. This is what happens in the case of strategy convergence, i.e. when within a particular industry all companies pursue similar strategies to compete with one another.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

At times these topics seem at odds – the new high-tech guard disrupting the old, jobs shifting from blue to white collar, outsourcing overseas versus keeping things at home, and the list goes on. That’s my takeaway from a new book, The Pan-Industrial Revolution: How New Manufacturing Titans Will Transform the World.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 15, 2018

Corporate innovators should take note of how Jet.com and Wal-Mart are not, in fact, attempting a “me too” competition on Amazon’s terms. Imaginatik’s take: Uber is well-known for disrupting the taxi business, and more recently for reports of bad corporate behavior. It has also long been a firm interested in moving the larger ecosystem.

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Keeping up—with technology, with the competition, with anything in business or life—is what some would call a fool’s game. Asking these questions enables you to go beyond your competition and get off the treadmill of keeping up. If you want to learn more about the Anticipatory Organization , my new book is available now.

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Innovation 360 Group

OCTOBER 29, 2017

The uber-quoted and widely disseminated statement by Peter Drucker that “Culture eats strategy for breakfast,” which, by the way, was never said by Drucker , clearly shows how a culture of opportunism and common wisdom create simplified truth hindering the success of innovation management. Strategies That Cross The 3 Horizons.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Then, have a process for aligning strategy (which pulls you forward) with budgeting (which anchors you backward) with project governance (which is usually a total mess) with people’s incentives. She is consistently ranked among the Top 10 management thinkers in the world and was ranked #1 for strategy by Thinkers50. Twitter: rgmcgrath.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 9, 2022

I wrote about this extensively in my book Leapfrogging. Disruptive Innovators Use Their Gut. The only consultants I’ve ever hired in my 10 years is one firm to analyze Gateway’s retail strategy so I would not make some of the same mistakes they made [when launching Apple’s retail stores].”

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 11, 2017

Organizations that have adopted an anticipatory mindset and culture enjoy a variety of powerful advantages over those that rely on strategies that simply aren’t as effective as they once might have been. Agility needs to be balanced with a new key strategy—becoming #Anticipatory. Agility is the ideal strategy for: Unpredictable change.

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Daniel Burrus

MARCH 18, 2020

When an individual or organization fears change and are uncertain, it’s usually in regard to digital technology disrupting their status quo or from new, fast-moving competition. If we get past the fear of “what next” and become anticipatory, using the power of disruptive change to create a better tomorrow for all, it can.

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Econic

MARCH 7, 2022

As a designer, I’m totally mystified by the “framework explosion” of magical boxes and lines littering the internet and business books. The internet is littered with product and strategy frameworks , often branded by an agency with a monetization plan behind it. Here are a few popular frameworks I’ve used in the past.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

With all the hype these days around the impending disruptions on the horizon such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and the like, it’s natural to assume that breakthrough innovation requires breakthrough technology. The best innovations reduce costs while adding value at the same time. Rethink waste.

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ImagineNation

JULY 26, 2023

Most of us are already aware that companies increasingly need to innovate  — across strategies, operations, offerings, and business models. Where many have become survival focussed, and adopt a short-term reactive lens in attempts to restore “normality” and arrest a decline in long-term growth rates and competitiveness.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The impact of an effective keynote address can resonate long after the event, influencing corporate strategies and individual initiatives alike. A focus on innovation helps companies to adapt to rapidly changing markets, embrace new technologies, and stay ahead of the competition.

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The BMI Lab Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

While some of us will try to overcome the Zoom-Fatigue by disconnecting from the digital world and find inspiration in books or nature, others prefer to stay connected and enjoy good, insightful content to make the best out of their free time. Did you know? The number of podcasts went through the roof in the past two years!

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 15, 2021

In the book Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Peter Drucker defines innovation as “the specific instrument of entrepreneurship […] that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth” Scott Berkun, from Carnegie Mellon University, believes that “innovation is a significant positive change.” Check it out!

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Stephen Shapiro

JANUARY 14, 2021

Each week, we tackle your most complex problems using the lenses from my book, Invisible Solutions. In his book, Animal Farm, George Orwell wrote “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Uou want to use different strategies depending on how important the problem is.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 3, 2023

In his book, Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice, late Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen highlights that understanding and organizing around their customers’ jobs is what enables organizations to succeed in the long run.

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Daniel Burrus

JUNE 6, 2018

Trade Secrets Are Your Competitive Advantages: Knowledge-based competitive advantages like trade secrets are best protected by documents such as confidentiality agreements and employee contracts. IBM, an international leader in patent creation, has a powerful strategy that can be adopted by any size organization.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 8, 2019

When it comes to disruption on the modern business landscape, company size is no safeguard. What’s more, it’s estimated that digital disruption will wipe out 40% 2 of today’s Fortune 500 companies in the coming decade. Amazon: Harmonizing Disruptive and Incremental Disruption With the Element of Speed.

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Innovation in Practice

MAY 2, 2016

Look at any industry, in any market, and you’ll find the same strategy playing out everywhere. We call this senseless strategy “Attrition Competition”, and it is derived from prevailing military strategy, which seeks to overwhelm competitors. However, there is another way: maneuver strategy.

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