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Students need internships, but internships need disrupting

Christensen Institute

Strada and Burning Glass Institute’s new Talent Disrupted report made headlines this week conveying the indisputable crisis of underemployment that an astounding half of college graduates face. But internships—like so many pricey and scarce experiential learning opportunities—are primed for disruption.

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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? Breakthrough innovation is an innovation from inside a company that pushes something to the next level.

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Future-Proof Your Business: Building Strategies for a Disruptive World

Leapfrogging

Navigating a Disruptive Business Environment In today’s fast-paced and technology-driven landscape, businesses are frequently faced with disruptions that can significantly impact their operations and long-term viability. Recognizing the early signs of these disruptions is key to responding effectively.

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Innovation project or Innovation Capability?

Jeffrey Phillips

Innovation theater happens when companies and executive talk up innovation but fail to do anything. No, today I want to talk about the differences and problems when companies focus on innovation as a discrete project, versus what they really need, innovation as a competency or capability.

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Getting Board Buy-In for Your Innovation Project

IdeaScale

For innovation to thrive in a company, it must be prioritized at every level. Taking an innovation project from idea through execution is challenging, and there can be obstacles at several places along the journey. The makeup of the board can also help promote buy-in of innovation projects. Long-Term View Necessary.

Project 185
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An innovation culture or a culture of continuity

Jeffrey Phillips

Another base principle is that most companies desire innovation in the form of new product and services to create new revenue and new market share. There is a more powerful desire in most companies, however, and that is the desire to avoid variance, reduce risk and maintain consistent, profitable operations.

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15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using

Idea to Value

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. In fact, according to some estimates by Doblin , 96% of all new innovations which established companies attempt fail to make a return on investment.

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