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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. I am talking about the original theory of disruptive innovation, as outlined by Professor Clayton Christensen in his groundbreaking Harvard Business Review article in 1995.

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How Global Companies Use AI to Prevent Supply Chain Disruptions

Harvard Business Review

As they strive to make their supply chains more resilient, global companies are grappling with two challenges: the difficulty in discerning potential sources and the extended time required to find, vet, and onboard new suppliers. They are also employing AI tools to pre-qualify suppliers ahead of time.

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4 Signs Your Industry Might Be Disrupted

Digital Tonto

The Secretary of the Interior, Albert Bacon Fall, was found to have corruptly leased Navy petroleum reserves to private companies. We need to learn the telltale signs that an industry is being disrupted. The post 4 Signs Your Industry Might Be Disrupted first appeared on Digital Tonto.

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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. Then, there's the added question of why almost all disruptive innovation is typically undertaken by an industry upstart or outsider, rather than a company currently in the field.

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Creating the conditions for disruptive innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

Some companies have successfully partnered with third party idea generators who are active provocateurs - who openly question the status quo. Once a company reaches a certain size and has an investment to protect, the thinking shifts from creativity and growth to defend and protect. Why can't we innovate? Outside the box?

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Podcast S4E74: Michael Raynor – Setting the right strategy for innovation and disruption

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Michael Raynor, Managing Director for the Deloitte US Strategy group, and author of numerous groundbreaking books on innovation, including The Innovator’s Solution and the Strategy Paradox. 00:04:45 – The misunderstanding of Disruptive Innovation.

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It’s Time for a New Model for Operations Management

Harvard Business Review

Covid-19 was the death knell for traditional hierarchical command-and-control operations management. In its place a new model has emerged that’s far better equipped to deal with today’s disruptive, volatile, and unpredictable environment. This model is built on four pillars — trust, talent, transparency, and technology.