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HBR Podcast on Disruptive Innovation

Idea to Value

Do you know what disruptive innovation is? No, I am not talking about every start-up trying to disrupt their industry.

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2023: Making The Shift From Disruption To Resilience

Digital Tonto

It’s been roughly 25 years since Clayton Christensen inaugurated the disruptive era and what he initially intended to describe as a special case has been implemented as a general rule. Two decades of lax antitrust enforcement have undermined competitive markets in the US.

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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. part Image credit Knowledge @ Wharton.

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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. You impact culture by a changing environment or altering the climate.

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Modern Tech and More: Empowering Your Supply Chain for Success

Speaker: Cory Skinner, Founder and CEO of FactR

Ready to dive into new tech to protect your supply chain, but not sure where or how to start? In this webinar, Cory Skinner, Founder and CEO of FactR, will break down the new, innovative technologies and strategies that you can implement to mitigate historic challenges, and even teach you what NOT to do along the way!

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Breakthrough Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

IdeaScale

Aren’t breakthrough innovation and disruptive innovation the same thing? After all, the car, the telephone, the smartphone, the electric car, the solar panel, weren’t these all breakthroughs that were also disruptive? What Is Disruptive Innovation? Not so with disruption.

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Incremental Change vs. Disruptive Innovation: What’s the Difference?

IdeaScale

When you’re comparing incremental innovation vs disruptive innovation, what’s the difference? Incremental innovation is small, modular change that takes place slowly over time, and allows for a gradual development of the product and its marketplace.

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Creating the conditions for disruptive innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

New perspectives needed In fact, the more your environment is changing, the more competitors you have, the more intense the competition within your industry is, the more you need new perspectives.

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Today’s Truth in Marketing: Get Interactive or Get Out of the Way

Daniel Burrus

Marketing is a world that is always evolving, always busy, and constantly filled with Anticipatory opportunities for all those who work in the industry and who leverage marketing for their organizations. . For Marketers: Technotrends and Exponential Ways to Market a Client’s Business.

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Breakthrough Innovation or Disruptive Innovation?

IdeaScale

A breakthrough can be an even bigger deal than a disruption. Aren’t breakthrough innovation and disruptive innovation the same thing? After all, the car, the telephone, the smartphone, the electric car, the solar panel, weren’t these all breakthroughs that were also disruptive? It is innovation that opens the company to new markets or changes the way customers interact with the market or the industry. Not so with disruption.

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The Invaluable Difference Between Change and Transformation

Daniel Burrus

We are in an interesting time in history, when transformative digital disruptions have their foot on the gas and are accelerating at exponential rates. What Does the Term ‘Change’ Mean? Change is a common term. In effect, change is different, but somehow the same.

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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. part Image credit Knowledge @ Wharton.

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Why incremental innovation is so easy; disruptive is so difficult

Jeffrey Phillips

For me, one epiphany that happened this week was when I was thinking about how valuable truly disruptive innovation is, and why it is done so rarely. Disruptive innovation cuts both ways Truly disruptive ideas, therefore, cut both ways.

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Change is Uncomfortable. Not Changing Can be Regrettable.

Daniel Burrus

Change Is Uncomfortable. Change may be the only constant in our lives, but that doesn’t mean we are happy about it! Change is possible, often unpredictable, and when it is unpredictable, it is uncomfortable. Change Is Disruptive. Certainty Makes Change Predictable.

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We Can’t Define The Change We Want To Pursue Until We Define Who We Want To Be

Digital Tonto

The generations that came after worshiped disruption and renewal. My hope is that we become protectors who seek to make the shift from disruption to resilience. We can no longer simply worship market and technological forces and leave our fates up to them as if they were gods.

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My own transformative dynamics of disruption

Paul Hobcraft

Let me tell you about this as it recognises how things are changing in our world and certainly in my world, in particular. It is a very disrupting, disturbing world. We have to push this into more of the cross-sector cascading effects of disruptions.

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The critical interplay among innovation, business models and change

Paul Hobcraft

The critical interplay among innovation, business models and change. One such collaboration was around the interplay of innovation with business models and change. We believe that the best innovators are the most adept at making and sustaining change. Disruptive/Radical.

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Adjusting to a changing world

Paul Hobcraft

The issue we must tackle today, is how we go about adapting to the changing world? One that will be able to take all the advantages of the changes all businesses are undergoing, how societies will be adjusting and responding. We are in a period of (great) change.

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Market Disruption vs. Business Disruption: The Inertial Disruption Factor

Legacy Innovation Group

Market Disruption vs. Business Disruption: The Inertial Disruption Factor. Whenever an innovation impacts a market, it also impacts the business delivering the innovation. It is as though when the business pushes on the market, the market pushes back. Nudge the market just a little with an incremental innovation, and the business feels a nudge back. In this case the inertial disruption factor is very small.

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Accelerating Innovation During Times of Disruption

Yet2

In the beginning of 2020 business disruption was largely viewed as an “Airbnb” or “Uber” taking mind and market share from industry stalwarts. Today, business disruption is synonymous with COVID-19 closures and the corresponding economic slowdown.

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Don’t Fear Disruption, Leverage It! 

Daniel Burrus

Disruptive digital technology is also a Hard Trend future certainty that has long been streamlining tasks in every industry, taking the place of many humans in different professional roles. I challenge you to read this paragraph and then close your eyes and focus. Think about the future.

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Innovation or Disruption: What’s Your Aim?

IdeaScale

The terms “innovation” and “disruption” are commonly used in today’s business world. Disruption is innovation, but not all innovation is disruption, just like all squares are technically rectangles , but not all rectangles are squares. It’s not even as simple as that, because sometimes innovations become disruptive after reaching a tipping point. The results of innovation may be a stronger market share or an extended market. What Disruption Does.

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A new normal is upon us, the paradigm shift that will change the World.

Paul Hobcraft

Still, it is how we all undergo the changes needed in a radically different set of economic circumstances. The change in our world is even a little scary, it actually is giving me a little “angst.” A possible change from one way of thinking to another.

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True Disruption Often Leads to Invention, but So Does Anticipation

Daniel Burrus

Picture this: You start a small business by making a change to a preexisting product that completely reinvents that product. Some minor disruptions get in your way, so you and your team make some adjustments to your product.

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Digital Disruption: In search of market leadership

mjvinnovation

Digital Disruption has had a major effect on the agendas of CEOs around the world because of domestic digital generations and because of the GAFA (Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple), companies that have revolutionized the entire market using 100% digital solutions. Want to know more about Digital Disruption as a market practice ? What is Digital Disruption? In this context, the companies that take the lead stand out for disruptive pioneering.

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Innovation: the accelerator for the changes in our energy transitions

Paul Hobcraft

We are losing the race to stop our planet’s warming as our innovative human endeavours are not at the level they should be, or we lack the “will” to make the changes we so desperately need to undergo to protect our planet.

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Innovation Needs To Shift From Disrupting Markets To Tackling Grand Challenges

Digital Tonto

The truth is that what has passed for innovation over the last 20 or 30 years has been more focused on disrupting markets than fundamentally changing the world. That needs to change. Related. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]. All Posts Management Technology Innovation

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Disruptive Energy.

100%Open

By any measure, that was a disruptive statement. While more and more of us are becoming aware of the impact climate change will have on current and future lives and the planet we keep pressing the same buttons, switches and pedals that make the energy flow. Yet if climate change is going to be managed, we’ve got to make it easier for consumers to make good choices. Earth Summit 1992 followed in Rio, creating the Climate Change Convention.

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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? Well, it is common for companies to think that disruption won’t affect them, because they feel that the quality of their current products or services are exactly what the customers want.

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Which is Stronger – Outside Pressure to Change? Or your Internal Drive to Transform?

Daniel Burrus

There are two mindsets surrounding the concepts of transformation and change. First, there is fear that comes with transformation and change. This is where the concepts of transformation and change seem so insurmountable that we accept them passively.

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Debunking Disruptive Innovation – Why Disruptive Innovation is Not a Strategy

Leapfrogging

Disruptive innovation has become business’ biggest paradigm. While many companies scramble to create disruptive innovation strategies, the problem is that it isn’t a linear process or methodology. No single strategy or theory (even the theory of disruptive innovation itself) has captured how it really works or how to do it. We asked him a simple question, “How do you do disruptive innovation?”. Disruption occurs. Disruption is our lens.

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Disruptive Is Not a Dirty Word

IdeaScale

Disruptive isn’t a dirty word, but it can be a scary one. Why does the word “disruptive” raise such fear among so many people? Uttering “disruptive” during a meeting can get you looks more along the lines of profanity. But “disruptive” isn’t a dirty word: It’s an honest reality, and disruptive innovation is sometimes the only way forward. Change Is Good, Not Easy. At the same time, disruptive innovation is what makes our lives better.

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How to Avoid Disruption with SODA

BrainZooming

and Sam Stewart about how Av oiding Disruption Requires Rapid Decision Making. They advance a model explaining superior fighter pilot performance as a recommended way for how to avoid disruption in your markets. How to Avoid Disruption with SODA. Within a few paragraphs, the authors mention brands typically noted for disruption: Amazon, Zappos, and Alibaba. Ask which other players inside and outside your market deliver comparable benefits.

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Caught in the Headlights of Disruptive Innovation.

Paul Hobcraft

This past weekend I had an extended period of re-reading about the effects of disruption that seems to be occurring across all points of business, our politics, our governments, it seems across our lives. All good plans sometime get disrupted. So I had some time on my hands so I decided to go back over the whole area of disruption to get a broader understanding and how this is driving so much within our innovation activity at present. Moritz reviewing disruptive innovation.

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Combat Unpredictable Change with Anticipation

Daniel Burrus

It is often assumed that people don’t like change, when in reality humans are born to instinctively love change. It’s why we take vacations and crave travel, because we want and need change. In this case, change is a choice, so we like it. Change the View.

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Most corporations don’t understand how much change is created by innovation. 

Paul Hobcraft

Applying the three horizon framework to innovation and change. To explain the impacts of innovation and the change it creates, we’ll use an accepted framework ( the Three Horizons ) to consider the impact innovation has on change capabilities and business models. Change Impact.

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How to Identify Relations Between Drivers of Change | ITONICS

ITONICS

As an organization operating in a competitive market , it's crucial to continually analyze the factors that drive change within your industry. These drivers of change , such as trends , emerging technologies , startups, competitors, risks , and ideas, can potentially disrupt the market.

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We Can’t Stop Disruption

Moves the Needle

It is important to recognize the size of the changes going on in the world. In my previous post , I discussed how we are no longer in the industrial age; that fundamental structural changes are underway in all facets of society. It needs to change. It will change. .

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How Consulting Will Likely Change Because of the Pandemic

Leapfrogging

The consulting industry was already being disrupted before the coronavirus. Now the disruption is accelerating. If you work with consultants or have your own consultancy, take note: Things are changing, fast. The entertainment industry was already undergoing digital disruption.

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Future-Proofing Financial Market Innovation – Fighting Digital Disruption with Digital Disruption

Qmarkets

The term ‘Digital Disruption’ describes the situation where an existing industry is being altered by emerging digital technologies. These new technologies lead to innovations, often creating new markets and value markets that can impact the established leaders in the industry. Financial organizations of all shapes and sizes are being disrupted by small, agile, innovative and technology-oriented companies which offer convenient and efficient services.

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Uncharted Waters Disrupting the Corporate Boardrooms

Paul Hobcraft

When you read a report that has within its executive summary this: “ In combination the boards stand unarmed to enter the battlefield of future business creation in a disrupted world ” it makes you want to read on. It comes as no surprise to me or many out there working to disrupt the incumbent but it makes for difficult reading that this is not addressed far more head on. Note : Understandable but not forgivable in this disrupting world).

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Innovation Needs To Shift From Disrupting Markets To Tackling Grand Challenges

Innovation Excellence

When Steve Jobs was trying to lure John Sculley to be Apple’s CEO in the early 1980’s, he asked him, “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?” Innovation Cancer disruption energy grand challenges human genome research Science

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Marketers Must Learn to Anticipate Content Trends

Daniel Burrus

As tech-driven change changes direction, it is far more profitable, to change direction with it. What’s Next in Target Marketing? . As technology-driven change changes direction, it is easier, and far more profitable, to change direction with it. “It’s Using the systemic method outlined in my Anticipatory Organization Model , you can ready your organization for the disruptive transformations ahead.

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