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The Innovator’s Dilemma: Why Successful Companies Fail and How Disruptive Innovation is the Key to Survival

IdeaScale

In today's fast-paced business landscape, companies face constant pressure to stay ahead of the competition and maintain their market share. Yet, even successful and established companies can fall victim to the "Innovator's Dilemma."

Company 130
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FeaturedCustomers Report Names IdeaScale a Market Leader

IdeaScale

This success as innovators has not gone unnoticed, earning IdeaScale the title of market leader in a recent FeaturedCustomers Report. The FeaturedCustomers report uses a ranking system based on data from the customer reference platform, web presence, market presence, and social presence. What It Means to be a Market Leader.

Report 246
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Discontinuous Innovation: Transforming Industries & Creating New Markets

Qmarkets

By definition, it refers to the introduction of groundbreaking products or services that fundamentally change market dynamics, often rendering existing solutions obsolete. This form of innovation doesn’t just improve on existing products; it completely redefines them, creating entirely new markets and consumer behaviors.

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Planned Obsolescence: How companies are deliberately making their products worse

Idea to Value

It turns out that in order to keep consumers buying products year after year, some companies are actually deliberately reducing the quality of their products. In some especially nefarious situations, these companies may be updating their products through software even after you bought them, in order to make the performance worse.

Company 277
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12 Types of Innovation You Should Know in 2021

IdeaScale

The paradigm is that companies cannot afford to rely strictly on their own internal methods of innovation, but can buy or license processes or inventions from other companies. It can also refer to innovations that have a social purpose, such as distance learning and online volunteering. Social Innovation. Product Innovation.

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What Kind of Company is a Good Fit for Crowdsourcing?

IdeaScale

After 69 years of growth, Dick’s is a great company ripe for crowdsourcing and they launched their first company-wide ideation platform last year. But how do we know that a company like Dick’s is a good fit for crowdsourcing? Well, here are a few qualities that make a company more likely to succeed in a crowdsourcing effort.

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3 lessons on creating a successful enterprise: Managers in growth markets should take note.

Christensen Institute

This was one of the first books that I read that made me really interested in the work at the Christensen Institute, and I continue to refer to its insights as I continue my work with some of today’s most impactful innovators. This book may just be the guide for those companies in growth markets. Tolaram now sells more than 4.5