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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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How this 1976 French wine tasting disrupted an entire industry

Idea to Value

How confident are you that your company will not be disrupted by a smaller competitor? This would likely not have been a problem, except that a single reporter from TIME magazine was invited and attended, publishing the surprising results in the June 1976 edition of TIME under the now infamous article Judgement of Paris.

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A Vital Change Management Strategy Role: Sharing an Innovation Vocabulary

BrainZooming

What are all the change management strategy roles a change agent plays? As we worked on strategic thinking exercises to explore the company’s future vision and user experience, the change management strategy vocabulary the group used was conventional, unemotional, and lacking innovative thinking. – Mike Brown.

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Disruptive Energy.

100%Open

While working as a journalist on World Coal magazine in the 1990s I was interviewing the president of a very large Canadian coal company who told me that in 10 years they would not be mining coal. By any measure, that was a disruptive statement. Earth Summit 1992 followed in Rio, creating the Climate Change Convention.

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How to use the 70-20-10 Rule to drive innovation within your business

Leapfrogging

The basic premise of the 70-20-10 Rule is that if the organizational stakeholders consistently makes small improvements to their existing line or enters into new markets, they will sustain the organization without ever evolving it to remain competitive with changing times. 10%-Disruptive Innovation . 70%-Core Innovation .

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Digital Disruption and Your Workforce

Daniel Burrus

In some cases, it’s about identifying opportunities for major digital disruption that you yourself can introduce (think Uber, Kickstarter and other innovations that set entire industries on their ear.). But being anticipatory also means being aware of outside disruptions that may impact you—and how to prepare accordingly.

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Nudity, Great Food and Disruptive Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Both Playboy magazine and restaurateur Danny Meyer have been in the news this week for disruptive business model innovations that challenge deeply help assumptions within the respective worlds. However, how many businesses would be able to embrace this kind of reinvention of their business models?