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The most important HR document in the history of Silicon Valley innovation

Idea to Value

In Silicon Valley, there is a document which has become legendary. It is a document which outlines some of the company and HR policies which have created a company which completely disrupted an industry sector. Culture from Reed Hastings. “It Ed: there seem to be a lot of successful ‘Reed’s in Silicon Valley…).

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Which new developments in K–12 education will prove disruptive?

Christensen Institute

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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Constructing the innovation mandate

Paul Hobcraft

Normally this innovation mandate comes in the form of a document, generally build up by a small team of senior leaders, innovation experts and subject matter experts. This part of the document provides the guardrails and guidance and the essential encouragement to bring risk evaluations into all innovation conversations.

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

Paul Hobcraft

Horizon Two is the mid-point between “incremental’ change in Horizon One and “disruptive” change in Horizon Three. Successful innovation will create disruption for all three constituents. Disruptive/Radical. Explore and disrupt. This is the space where the most change will occur. Horizon One. Horizon Two. Horizon Three.

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How to Identify Synergies between Corporates, Startups and Spin-offs

Collectivecamp

It’s been well documented by the likes of Steve Blank and Clayton Christensen that if you want explore disruptive innovation in a large company, you have to either redesign or create parallel processes, systems and values internally in order up to support behaviours critical to innovation

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Understanding the innovation options in your business

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm writing a series of blog posts to document some of the things I've learned in innovation along the way, over 15 years of leading corporate innovation work. They will conduct disruptive innovation activities because they need to become relevant again to customers and to do that they must change the nature of competition.

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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. Disruptive/Radical.

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