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Innovation or Disruption: What’s Your Aim?

IdeaScale

The terms “innovation” and “disruption” are commonly used in today’s business world. Innovation takes a vision and turns it into reality. Disruption is innovation, but not all innovation is disruption, just like all squares are technically rectangles , but not all rectangles are squares. Innovation.

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Find your worst nightmare… and make it come true!

IdeaScale

The next wave of disruption. Uber disrupted the world taxi market in a couple of years and even the courts are having trouble slowing their growth. But in either case the process of disruption is the same. The story entertained me, but it also demonstrated that that the driver has the potential to disrupt the travel industry!

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8 Types of Innovation in Business: A Comprehensive Guide

Qmarkets

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. Radical innovation is about making significant leaps forward, often creating new industries or reshaping existing ones. Find out more on our product pages.

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Innovation in Education: How Universities can Benefit from Dedicated Software

Qmarkets

Communication has evolved profoundly over the last 20 years, and we continue to see disruptive technologies and services that change the way we think about information. This has been most evident in the media, where business models are constantly morphing to provide us with news and entertainment in unique ways.

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Your Guide to Fueling Enterprise Innovation in the Transport Industry

Qmarkets

For vehicle manufacturers and service providers in the global transport industry right now, innovation isn’t so much optional as existentially vital. Candela plans to change the face of commuting in Stockholm with its electric flying ferries Greener Airplanes The aviation industry is experiencing more than its own fair share of disruption.

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Innovation in Media – Renowned Swiss Publishing House Launches Qmarkets’ Idea Management Platform After Successful Pilot

Qmarkets

Operating in an industry that has faced continuous waves of disruption, the leadership team at Somedia identified the urgent need for a professional tool to manage ideas in an effective and transparent way. Upon looking at tools, it quickly became clear that Qmarkets had everything that Somedia was looking for.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. Instead of lean innovation programs, there is a mandate to cut $2 billion in expenses by the end of next year, lift profits and raise the dividend. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D.