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Thursday Theory Tips- Disruption, a theory of competition

Christensen Institute

Disruptive innovation is commonly misunderstood. Just watch “ Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery ” to hear one of the main characters, Miles Bron, get the definition of “true disruption” really, really wrong. She called it a theory of competition. That is the power of disruption.

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11 female innovation leaders share their definition of innovation

Idea to Value

I spoke to 11 of the world’s leading female innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. 15 experts share their innovation definition in order to answer the question of “What is innovation?” What is your definition of “innovation”?

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

Paul Hobcraft

It relies on existing capabilities and emphasizes excellent operational execution, with less focus on new needs or expanding the competitive market space. Horizon Two is the mid-point between “incremental’ change in Horizon One and “disruptive” change in Horizon Three. There’s little change required for external constituents.

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Eliminating innovation unknowns - definitions

Jeffrey Phillips

Perhaps one of the simplest, and yet most important unknown to address is a definition of innovation. We at OVO often demand that our clients develop a consistent definition of innovation that can be communicated to teams within the organization. You can see those different definitions by clicking here.

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Go Slow to Go Fast: Clarifying the Definition of "Business Ecosystems" and Why Doing So Matters

Imaginatik

The CEO was sponsoring a workshop on the future of payments – its dizzying array of emerging new standards and technologies as well as the dark horse disruptive potential of blockchain technologies. We’ve already observed that tomorrow’s competitive landscape will be framed less by industry giants than among ecosystem-centric business models.

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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. Everything invented seems to have been disrupted or seems about too.

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The critical interplay among innovation, business models and change

Paul Hobcraft

Disruptive : Innovating to create a new market or industry, or innovating in an existing adjacent industry. An innovator may identify or discover needs that allow it to create a completely new market, segment or industry, or enter an existing market, segment or industry and change it or disrupt the adjacent market.

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