Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In Part 1 of this blog series, I highlighted that disruption in health care is increasingly present at many points along the consumer value chain. Key takeaways to recall from that first post are as follows: Disruption doesn’t stop where it starts. What happens when disruptors move up-market? Three strategies for the path forward.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 5, 2023

Orchestrating Design Thinking and AI for a People-Centric Business Future The tapestry of business evolution tells a remarkable story. Products were no longer simply created and sold; they were designed to meet customer needs and solve their problems. From the onset of marketing in the 1950s to today, we’ve seen clear transformations.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 23, 2023

When Clayton Christensen first met with Andy Grove, the prior CEO of Intel, to teach him about disruptive innovation, Christensen insisted that their conversation would be most valuable to Grove if instead of telling him what to think, Christensen took the time to teach him how to think using the theory. But that analysis takes effort.

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Fehmida Kapadia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

An hour into the activity, we take a short break to discuss what we are working on and the following conversation ensues “I am writing about design thinking” “Oh! Are you a designer?” “No, No, I am not a designer and that is exactly what I am writing about. I am writing about design THINKING, which is so much more than design.”

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 22, 2024

Deploying a design that recognizes the layers of an Innovation Ecosystem feeds the Business Ecosystem, and these provide the Dynamic Ecosystem to adjust and respond and, when combined, allow the Enterprise Ecosystem to generate collective prosperity, dynamism and a sustaining environment that thrives on its interdependence and interconnectedness.”

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Let’s look at some examples of lateral thinking in business strategy and innovation. Dyson disrupted the vacuum cleaner market by creating bagless vacuum cleaners, a concept that challenged the traditional vacuum design and improved performance. How can you differenitate your business from the competition?

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Being Anticipatory as a leader or an organization is not necessarily a sole act of seeing the future, although paying attention to Hard Trend future certainties and seeing disruptions of any kind before they occur may make it seem so. Even if you think that your cash cow cannot possibly be disrupted, it will.

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Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Disruptive innovations need three enablers: a technology, an organizational model, and a value network. When Disrupting Class was published in 2008, it predicted that by the fall of 2019, 50% of all high school courses would be delivered online in some form or fashion. What are the necessary elements for disruption? Key points.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 2, 2020

A massive transformation faces the software industry, similar to the disruption we’ve seen hit other industries like health care and manufacturing. Salesforce and Zoho are examples of low-code platforms. Pipedrive and Airtable are examples of no-code platforms. Zapier and GitHub are examples today.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 15, 2022

Recession Proof Your Business the Design Thinking Way. No matter that the questions, you can prepare yourselves ahead of time without disrupting the business. With some strategic Design Thinking methodologies, you can protect your business from falling apart and improve it so you can grow. What Is Design Thinking?

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. What is Design Thinking? Design thinking is a way of problem solving that evolved out of applying the scientific method to the process of design. In this way, lean innovation and design thinking go hand in hand.

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Daniel Burrus

JUNE 29, 2022

And truth be told, you do not need them to do so — you can use your own Anticipatory mindset to decode the disruptions that will change the insurance industry from this point forward. Disruptions — and better yet, digital disruptions — that turn the insurance industry on its head are meant to ease the common pain points customers face.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 22, 2022

Gain Better User Adoption the Design Thinking Way. Companies should always consider the design of user adoption as a primary part of their entire product life cycle. What Is Design Thinking? Design Thinking assists organizations in creating value for people. Multiple methodologies move forward the Design Thinking process.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2019

Disruptive technologies are transforming the packaging that comes with just about everything we buy. This article is one in a series I’m calling Everything Transformed that highlights the various technologies disrupting just about every industry on the planet – and today’s focus is packaging. Drivers of Packaging Disruption.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Their talks are designed to provide you with strategies and practical tips that can be applied to foster a more innovative environment within your organization. Disruptive Innovation Disruptive innovation is a buzzword you’ve likely encountered, but understanding its intricacies can be transformative for your business.

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Yet2

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The Innovation & Strategy Conference , held November 14 th in the hip-while-retro Innovation and Design Building in the Seaport area of Boston, offered attendees insights to corporate innovation from a wide variety of perspectives. The conference put a strong point on the fact that disruption is impacting all industries.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 2, 2020

A massive transformation faces the software industry, similar to the disruption we’ve seen hit other industries like health care and manufacturing. Salesforce and Zoho are examples of low-code platforms. Pipedrive and Airtable are examples of no-code platforms. Zapier and GitHub are examples today.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

I wonder if that is the current incumbents, be these current innovation management software providers or individuals inside the organizations resisting change, as it brings significant uncertainty of change and disruption to the (inadequate) process, one that I feel is not fit for today’s and tomorrow’s innovation purpose.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I am working through what I think this should become in design and application, involving providing the key innovation building blocks as components of the innovation stack, using the innovation stack to guide platform development and the platform to support this innovation stack.

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Econic

MARCH 7, 2022

As a designer, I’m totally mystified by the “framework explosion” of magical boxes and lines littering the internet and business books. How can Spiral Dynamics help us design better frameworks? Let’s rethink how we design and teach frameworks through an example. Take a look again at McKinsey's Three Horizons Model.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The Winds of Change- Innovation Software facing the Innovators’ Dilemma In my research, I am getting a real sense that the current Innovation Management Software model is about to be upended and disrupted as per Clayton Christensens’ “Innovators Dilemma.” source Wikipeda) Today the reversal is happening. Any thoughts?

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Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In our last Thursday Theory Tips piece, we explored disruption as a theory of competition. In this piece, we’ll explore one of the two types of disruption: new market disruptions and, consequently, market-creating innovations (MCIs)— the specific spark that births a new market structure. What about competition?

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 19, 2021

Today we are facing many current disruptions where we need to react fast and intelligently. Having people at the centre of designs enables more intelligent, rapid and lasting innovation. Using Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio, the need was to design and simulate air quality. The rapid need for Vaccines.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 5, 2015

disruptive innovation pathway options. By being proactive, anticipating and structuring the options ahead you can be more prepared for disruption, you can respond with more thoughtful reactions. The more we are open to this the more we can become responsive to disruption. Have you ever considered option pathways?

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Any construct of a Strategically designed innovation plan needs to work through different concepts and tools. This is one example of allocating appropriate resources. Taking action in designing your innovation alignment. Possible Three Horizon Investment Portfolio Allocation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2023

These stacks follow an established logic, such as working through idea discovery, relating to given problems, exploring solutions, and determining the final model or design and the execution delivery to achieve this. We stack them and they interlink. Different innovation thinking needs always require different adaption.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 8, 2019

When it comes to disruption on the modern business landscape, company size is no safeguard. What’s more, it’s estimated that digital disruption will wipe out 40% 2 of today’s Fortune 500 companies in the coming decade. Amazon: Harmonizing Disruptive and Incremental Disruption With the Element of Speed.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 21, 2022

I already told you about their excellent episode on Disruptive Innovation. Firstly, while Taylorism aims to improve efficiency at any cost, it assumes that the manager designing the process can find the one “perfect” way. Today I want to highlight another great episode on a topic I learned a lot more about: Taylorism.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As an everyday example, if you only have $1 to spend on lunch, you could either buy a $1 donut, or a $1 apple, but not both. Invest in ideas which are too similar to the existing business, and not enough in exploring more disruptive and transformational ideas. However, what if the company is thinking about the opportunity cost wrong?

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

One example of a tool that cuts through the bureaucracy and enables employees at all levels to develop their innovative ideas is CO-STAR. For example, a web based application like IdeaScale enables innovators to share their ideas utilizing the CO-STAR framework online. Organizational Alignment .

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

One example of a tool that cuts through the bureaucracy and enables employees at all levels to develop their innovative ideas is CO-STAR. For example, a web based application like IdeaScale enables innovators to share their ideas utilizing the CO-STAR framework online. Organizational Alignment .

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It plays a pivotal role in shaping the overall ecosystem; I would argue it is the unique essence of this design. Providing the Ecosystem environment to build out dynamism enables the capabilities to challenge and have the abilities to disrupt. Achieving any dynamics within the system generates the potential for change.

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Daniel Burrus

JULY 31, 2019

For example, let’s say you want to start a smart watch company. Simply design a watch for people who are 70 and older — and keep in mind the fact that it will likely be their children who buy it in an effort to keep their parents healthy and safe. Merely hoping that disruption is not on your horizon is not a strategy; it is avoidance.

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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

In our work, you’ll find many examples of tactics (like Problem Interviews) that we constantly replace with newer/better ones (like Problem Discovery). Every company needs to simultaneously optimize their existing business model (sustain) and search for the next evolution of the business model (disrupt). Why “Continuous” Innovation?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

Examples of Business Model Innovation Exploring prime examples of business model innovation can provide unique insights into how companies across different industries have successfully adapted and transformed their operations. It offers a straightforward way to understand, design, and pivot your business model.

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The BMI Lab Blog

MAY 2, 2022

This is why the rise of platforms has the potential to disrupt various industries. For example more buyers on Amazon lead to more sellers and vice versa. Developed by the University of St.Gallen and the Bosch IoT Lab, 'The Platform Navigator’ is a proven tool for the design and implementation of platform business models.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

In this guide, we’re unpacking eight critical types of innovation that businesses leverage to carve out their niches, disrupt markets, and write their success stories. It’s about introducing features, functionalities, or designs that meet emerging customer needs or tap into uncharted market segments.

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