Christensen Institute

APRIL 27, 2023

If you’re reading this post, there’s a good chance you’re in the business of “organizational change.” But a major body of work happening in K–12 education today boils down to organizational change. Then you’re in the business of change. That weaving—that’s organizational change. High-dosage tutoring? Blended learning?

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 17, 2021

I'm a fan of military history, and it is always striking to me to see how much new product development and innovation can learn from the military and vice versa. Sixth, the speed and pace of change needs should cause leaders from both organizations to constantly reassess just how prepared they are, and where the next threat will come from.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Training Disruption 144

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The typical goals of this sort of collaboration are better solutions and disrupting economic development — ultimately, it’s an early pipeline of new technologies. The collaborative process can also teach a seasoned team a lot about resiliency, agility, and dynamic thinking. Set goals around your innovation pipeline.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Navigating a Disruptive Business Environment In today’s fast-paced and technology-driven landscape, businesses are frequently faced with disruptions that can significantly impact their operations and long-term viability. Recognizing the early signs of these disruptions is key to responding effectively.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

But it’s this mindset which must change in order for companies to maintain a competitive edge and fight disruption. But we shouldn’t judge poor Charles too harshly, after all, we are all guilty of similar cognitive bias on a daily basis. Remarkably, the wheel hasn’t changed much in the time since then.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Whitepaper called “ Product Complexity, Digital Transformation, and the Innovation Imperative- The race to reinvent how complex products are developed is here “ This made me a little jealous and a little wishing that ‘we’, across the whole of innovation management , could not have one of these platforms available today.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

At some point, digital disruption comes for every organization. While some companies might be flexible and lucky enough to ride a wave of disruption and survive , if you are able to predict and prepare for it accordingly you might be able to use it to thrive. Defining digital disruption. Clues for early identification.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 30, 2017

At some point, digital disruption comes for every organization. While some companies might be flexible and lucky enough to ride a wave of disruption and survive , if you are able to predict and prepare for it accordingly you might be able to use it to thrive. Defining digital disruption. Clues for early identification.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

But it’s this mindset which must change in order for companies to maintain a competitive edge and fight disruption. But we shouldn’t judge poor Charles too harshly, after all, we are all guilty of similar cognitive bias on a daily basis. Remarkably, the wheel hasn’t changed much in the time since then.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The Age of AI and Business Strategy Understanding AI-Driven Rapid Change In the current landscape, AI-driven technologies are reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. Artificial Intelligence is not just a tool but a revolutionary force, catalyzing fundamental changes in how businesses operate, compete, and deliver value.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Bring Ideas to Life With ChatGPT’s advanced processing capabilities, you can reduce the time it takes to generate ideas while also coming up with more disruptive ones. Of course, ChatGPT won’t give you transformational business ideas on demand, but in the right (human) hands, you can realistically get close to that, and much faster, too.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Mentors see themselves as people developers. A manager would work with them to develop the business case. When is it time to stick to an idea, and when is it time to listen to others and change course? They ask about lessons learned at each milestone as a way of furthering the innovator’s development.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Project Technical Review 189

Idea to Value

JANUARY 6, 2017

Like so many other organizational leaders in China at that time, I had a very young team and we needed to skill-up. Within 18 months or so, they had developed a solid Innovation Skillset foundation. I needed to help my team and leaders cultivate an Innovation Mindset. But how to do that? And I found one. Please check this out!

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 21, 2019

They invest millions into these projects with the hopes of disrupting the norm, transforming their company culture, and catering to the markets of the future, but they have not actually figured out a fool-proof strategy for generating this innovation, let alone how they are going to align these innovation plans with their ultimate business goals.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Leading organizational change to create a corporate culture that delivers continuous innovation is one of today’s most strategic business imperatives. It means dealing openly with bad news as well as good news. It is, of course, at risk from misunderstandings. Trust is the currency of business success.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

So if you know that the CEO’s greatest pain is the fact that the sales team isn’t communicating with marketing or manufacturing, resulting in lower sales and poor customer experiences, then you have to look at what you’re proposing and figure out how it can ease that pain or even solve that problem. As you do this, state it clearly.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Anyone who has felt the ‘full force of the wind’ will know the feeling of how hard it is to keep on your feet, to stay determined to stay upright and true, to hold the course, whatever happens. When you feel the force of change running through the organization, you tend to have that same sensation, to resist the force with all your energy.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The very thinking and models that helped them grow become barriers for further development. And, of course, the models that got them to a specific position aren't necessarily relevant as tastes, consumers and channels change. But Sears is locked into a business model that is exceptionally difficult to change.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 15, 2016

There's an innovation analogy today Currently, many innovation teams are shaping up a lot like Henry Ford's company. And you can have any innovation you like, incremental or disruptive, as long as it results in a tangible product. Where would those ideas "go" for further development? Of course we both knew the answer.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

The market is changing faster than ever, and an organization’s ability to move at the speed of the Internet is the only chance at surviving and thriving. We also know from cognitive behavioral therapy that one of the best ways to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit.

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ITONICS

JULY 26, 2019

Should they go after the disruptive and risky idea? It says you learn 70% of the things from doing tough jobs by yourself, 20% of learning comes from people you work with, and 10% from courses and reading. 10% | Disruptive Innovation. Core, adjacent and disruptive innovation will require diverse skills and talents.

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Underperforming Technical Team Disruption Resources Innovation 53

Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

The market is changing faster than ever, and an organization’s ability to move at the speed of the Internet is the only chance at surviving and thriving. We also know from cognitive behavioral therapy that one of the best ways to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit. Problems are goldmines.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture Disruption 72

Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

We are probably in the middle of the biggest disruptive change in the market since industrialization. Happily, there are specific steps that can be taken by those who are threatened by these market changes. So, why are businesses so bad at channelling this creativity towards their own business operations?

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ITONICS

JULY 25, 2019

Should they go after the disruptive and risky idea? It says you learn 70% of the things from doing tough jobs by yourself, 20% of learning comes from people you work with, and 10% from courses and reading. 10% | Disruptive Innovation. Core, adjacent and disruptive innovation will require diverse skills and talents.

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Underperforming Technical Team Disruption Resources Innovation 40

Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. There’s a pervasive myth that suggests that all big companies need to get better at disruptive or breakthrough innovation. Of course not. They don’t.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2020

How do you create a company that can adapt, respond, and reinvent itself to become stronger in both good times and bad? In 2017, the entire eight-person, executive management team (except for the CFO) of Sweetgreen quit of their own accord after the company had record growth in 2015 and 2016. Highlights. Michael Raynor.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Of course it is important to engage with people who have already converted from prospect to customer, but when trying to determine why someone might get held up in the process, it is valuable to reach beyond those who have already been convinced. While promotion can shift the growth curve, it alone cannot change the shape of the curve.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. There’s a pervasive myth that suggests that all big companies need to get better at disruptive or breakthrough innovation. Of course not. They don’t.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

Yet far more of our business organizations are continuing to really struggle on their innovation activity for a whole host of reasons that seem never-ending, disappointing in end result and stuck in management quicksand to ever really change. Perhaps we are in urgent need to change the very dynamics of how we undertake innovation.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 6, 2017

Between the two of them there is enough marvelously illustrated content to teach a masters course in innovation. Innovation stories are inherently transformational because they are about change — and this is perfect for the two hour story arc of a movie. Use this movie with innovation teams, or students.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

In the course of this first month of 2016, I was asked a couple of times what my prospects are for the year ahead when it comes to key innovtion issues. Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the pervasion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 16, 2021

At the time we were looking to raise capital (between 2011 and 2013), businesses with women on the executive team received only 7 percent of the venture funding. Of course, I can’t speak for all women, but I can share that the perceived lack of credibility often contributed to my own self-doubt and lack of confidence.

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The BMI Lab Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Basically, over the course of 2 days (September 21-22) we invited Covestro´s selected senior managers to Switzerland. We identified and discussed strong areas and weak areas. Self-reflection is really important in a BMI process, since we need to build upon our strengths and develop our weaknesses to build up innovation capabilities.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

The lens through which the entrepreneurial mind sees the world is generally one of how to create something totally new and cool – sometimes something that will "unbundle", or disrupt, an existing industry – that will allow them to make history and potentially change the world.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Together, they reduce the risk of failure, improve the success rate of new ideas and can help build an organisation which is more resilient to change and able to grow. Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation. Most startups state that their aim is to be disruptive or to disrupt a specific industry.

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IM Insights

APRIL 23, 2022

If we want to change the world , we need that second system. We provide insights on how to measure innovation , innovation , accounting , and managing the uncertain process of developing new , sustainable , and profitable business models. Yeah , of course. Main Episode Page. Podcast & Show Notes. Episode Transcript.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 10, 2016

In doing so, they must of course also follow the law and obey the ”code of conduct” but this may in fact very well kill their companies unless they learn how to govern the risky and experimental nature of world class Innovation! Two concrete competence gaps of today’s boards.

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