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Why do we have difficulties to self-disrupt?

Paul Hobcraft

“Why do we always seem to have internal difficulties to self-disrupt?”. In most cases, organizations cannot self-disrupt, which is largely covered by this veritable list of constraints. The processes become overburdening, hard to change, far too complex to change without significant commitment and top management support.

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China the story of innovation and disruption.

Paul Hobcraft

Disruption is all around us; it never seems to go away; it simply appears in a different and often entirely new form. The result is the same; it disrupts what we know and often in how we suddenly need to set about doing it differently. Much of the innovative disruptions seem so obvious; you wonder why we were not doing these before.

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China the story of innovation and disruption.

Paul Hobcraft

Disruption is all around us; it never seems to go away; it simply appears in a different and often entirely new form. The result is the same; it disrupts what we know and often in how we suddenly need to set about doing it differently. Much of the innovative disruptions seem so obvious; you wonder why we were not doing these before.

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Innovating in the midst of chaos and disruption

Jeffrey Phillips

Kipling wasn't writing about new product development, business model change or innovation, but what he is writing is entirely applicable to our situation today - first quarter 2021. The folks who tell us about climate change tell us that what will actually occur is less predictable weather and weather patterns.

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Organize innovation to fit your strategy & culture.

Leapfrogging

That’s because they try to apply processes and structures that don’t fit their business strategies and cultures. They force crowdsourcing into their top-down decision-making cultures. They invest in disruptive technologies but ask existing business units to cannibalize their current products and services using them.

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How Culture Change Works: 3 Lessons

BrainZooming

We were proposing a change initiative for a multi-agency department within a city government. As our in-person presentation drew to a close, the review team asked about each of our experiences with comparable culture changes. What lessons did I share on how culture change works? Culture Change works when: #1.

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EXPLORING A CULTURAL TIPPING POINT

ImagineNation

At the same time, I allowed my mind to wander and wondered how this visually stunning and unrivaled British ceremony would impact the nations and realms’ culture and leadership, today and in the future, wondering if, indeed, it is at a cultural tipping point.

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