Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Agree on an internal definition at your company – solicit input from all over the organization, not just those in product development, IT and the C-Suite. Esther Gons is the co-author of The Corporate Startup, winner of the 2019 Golden Axiom Business Book Award and the 2018 Management Book Of The Year Award. Karin Hurt.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

APRIL 18, 2024

At a Glance Aruna Ravichandran SVP & Chief Marketing and Customer Officer for Webex, Cisco Focus Areas : Marketing, Cloud, DevOps, IT Operations Thinkers360 In-Depth Profile & Portfolio: Aruna Ravichandran Social Media: LinkedIn | X Books: DevOps for Digital Leaders , The Kitty Hawk Venture.

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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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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

The horizon model originally came from the book “The Alchemy of Growth” by Stephen Coley, Mehrdad Baghai, David White. The purpose for the model was to help businesses think about their need to develop new revenue sources over time. Product development just doesn’t work that way.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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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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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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

As Steve Blank puts it in his foreword to O’Reilly and Tushman’s latest book on the subject: Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma: Exploitation pays your salary while exploration pays your pension. Here, innovation will be closely tied to “product development” resources.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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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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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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Most of them were organizations that ‘make and sell’ products (Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark, Philip Morris, and Gillette Company). The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. The question is “Why?” Leadership Insights 1.

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Most of them were organizations that ‘make and sell’ products (Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark, Philip Morris, and Gillette Company). The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. The question is “Why?”. Leadership Insights.

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IdeaSpies

AUGUST 31, 2018

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Most of them were organizations that ‘make and sell’ products (Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark, Philip Morris, and Gillette Company). The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. The question is “Why?” Leadership Insights 1.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Executives love talking about “disruption” nowadays, but very few companies can achieve truly disruptive results. The reason: before you can disrupt an industry, you need to disrupt your own company culture first. This problem was well described in the classic book, The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This is especially true for those that are farther from the core competency of the company, but which have the potential to be disruptive. While the leaders clearly see new product development as the best market entry strategy, that sentiment is clearly not shared by a large majority of others within the organization.

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The Inovo Group

AUGUST 5, 2019

The processes, methods and tools used for New Product Development (NPD) are insufficient for strategic innovation [1] and strategic innovation is necessary for the accelerated growth that companies demand. Sometimes new product development (NPD) is relatively straightforward, although it may be extremely costly and difficult.

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Leanstack

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This is true not just at the earliest stages of defining your minimum viable product but at every stage of the product development cycle. In my book, Running Lean , I detailed several customer interviewing (Problem Interviews) and observation techniques for doing this. The way you get them inside is with an offer.

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New Markets Advisors

MAY 29, 2019

This is especially true in industries with long product development timelines. Agile processes not only ensure that teams are able to make the right choices at the right times, but they also ensure that shifts aren’t disruptive to other teams or the overall effectiveness of the organization.

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hackerearth

MAY 12, 2017

He focused on a few target products and services and he did them well. Even though the Mac business was picking up, it was only in 2001, with the release of the iPOD (now retired) disrupting the digital music market, did Apple start soaring. Disruption just wasn’t working for the Billund-based company. Source: [link].

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation. Brought to prominence by Professor Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma , this important theory provides an explanation as to why large, established companies eventually get overtaken by smaller ones, and it introduced the concept of disruptive innovation.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 9, 2018

In our March blog “Taking the path to digital transformation” we described how leading innovators, R&D and new-product development have become digital innovation endeavors.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Innovation management initiatives focus on disruptive or step changes that transform the business in some significant way. For instance, an emerging business is likely to be focusing on one main product, unlike a mature organization that is looking to fortify its position in the market or find new, disruptive innovations.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Innovation management initiatives focus on disruptive or step changes that transform the business in some significant way. For instance, an emerging business is likely to be focusing on one main product, unlike a mature organization that is looking to fortify its position in the market or find new, disruptive innovations.

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Cris Beswick

MARCH 14, 2024

As I highlight throughout my book, ‘ Building a Culture of Innovation ‘, companies that fail to make Innovation integral to their cultures risk losing relevance, ceding ground to disruptive start-ups, and struggling to attract and retain top talent.

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etventure

OCTOBER 6, 2016

All this about companies being in a huge transition because of digitization, about disruption in the ‘old economy’ because of new, agile, digital competitors – none of it is true, he says. Others refer to ‘the fintechs’ that are disrupting and shaking up the old banking economy. Feick cannot see any evidence for a digital revolution.

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Matthew Griffin

MAY 26, 2015

IRR inadvertently motivates organisations to focus on smaller, faster wins because if they use their money to fund programs that don’t pay off for years then the ratio is at best modest, meanwhile RONA motivates organisations to reduce the number of assets they hold on their books. Click & Connect with Matthew: LinkedIn .

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Matthew Griffin

MARCH 23, 2015

The billion dollar startup was once the stuff of myth but now they’re everywhere, backed by a bull market and founded on new, disruptive digital technologies and business models which make their speed of operation, rate of innovation and reach that much greater. They leveraged their investors insider networks and Black Books.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors , written half a century ago, is still a readable business classic. Just as Durant had multiple interests, Musk is not only Tesla’s CEO and Product Architect, overseeing all product development, engineering, and design. There’s the Alfred P.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

The idea was conceived by Eric Ries and brought to life in his book The Lean Startup back in 2011. Since then, his methodology has gained popularity among startups and large organizations alike by giving companies a process for reducing production waste and bringing products to market faster than ever before.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. The Outpost is on the lookout for innovations that: Could become threats that could lead to the disruption of the corporate parent. Could create and introduce new and disruptive offerings for new markets.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. The Outpost is on the lookout for innovations that: Could become threats that could lead to the disruption of the corporate parent. Could create and introduce new and disruptive offerings for new markets.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. The Outpost is on the lookout for innovations that: Could become threats that could lead to the disruption of the corporate parent. Could create and introduce new and disruptive offerings for new markets.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Including “startup-driven” in the corporate portfolio may make sense if a company: Is being disrupted now, as is happening in many IT, print, retail and telecommunications corporations.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. The Outpost is on the lookout for innovations that: Could become threats that could lead to the disruption of the corporate parent. Could create and introduce new and disruptive products and/or services for new markets.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

An innovative business model has the potential to radically disrupt a market and give your business the competitive edge. The company makes money by charging 6%-12% commision for every booking from the host and ~3% charge for the users booking the property. It completely transformed the music industry. Such is the power of MSPs.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Including “startup-driven” in the corporate portfolio may make sense if a company: Is being disrupted now, as is happening in many IT, print, retail, and telecommunications corporations.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Including “startup-driven” in the corporate portfolio may make sense if a company: Is being disrupted now, as is happening in many IT, print, retail, and telecommunications corporations.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Including “startup-driven” in the corporate portfolio may make sense if a company: Is being disrupted now, as is happening in many IT, print, retail, and telecommunications corporations.

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