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What is Disruptive Thinking?

Destination Innovation

It involves deliberately questioning established norms, encouraging unconventional perspectives, and embracing risks to create breakthrough changes. Steve Jobs (Consumer Electronics): Jobs revolutionized personal computing, music, and telecommunications with products like the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.

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New Business Designs can be delivered through a Business Ecosystem Approach.

Paul Hobcraft

When looking at radically different thinking and design in business, where Ecosystems become central, you need to ask yourself what industries would benefit from such an alternative design and thinking due to the changing complexities and challenges they are facing. Markets today are radically changing and are more demanding.

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The most important question in development

Christensen Institute

One of the things that caught my eye in a February, 2023 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) report was the change in helicopters for the Afghan army. But the Pentagon made the decision to change aircrafts from the Mi-17 “to the more complex U.S.-made Who will fly, fix, and fund the helicopters?

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Continuous Improvement and Breakthrough Innovation: Why You Need Both

IdeaScale

Businesses that strive for continuous improvement lay a better foundation for breakthroughs than businesses that preserve the status quo at all costs or otherwise eschew change. The iPhone was considered a true innovation back in 2007, opening up an entirely new approach to telecommunications and changing how people used phones forever.

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Eight Companies that Switched What They Did

Destination Innovation

In the 1990s it focussed on telecommunications technology. Nokia was founded in 1865 by mining engineer, Fredrik Idestam, as a wood pulp mill in Tampere, Finland which was then part of the Russian Empire. It became a manufacturer of rubber boots and cables before specialising in electronics. It became a network equipment manufacturer.

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Episode 19 – Part 2: The ROI of Learning

IM Insights

The episode challenges traditional practices in organizations and focuses on the importance of understanding human behaviour to achieve success for new products and organisational change management. Peter recommends checking out Lean Change Management and gives a shoutout to Jason Little !

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Innovation Insights from the Founder of Sony

Destination Innovation

They founded Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, Corporation and their first product was an automatic rice cooker which failed to sell well. Morita grasped the importance of brands and saw that the name Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp was an impediment to success.