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Examples of Businesses navigating complexity by fostering Ecosystems.

Paul Hobcraft

Apple: Approach: Apple is recognized for its ability to innovate and disrupt industries. emphasizes moonshot projects and long-term thinking. Netflix: Approach: Netflix disrupted the entertainment industry by transitioning from a DVD rental service to a streaming platform. Google (Alphabet Inc.):

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Breakthrough Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

IdeaScale

Aren’t breakthrough innovation and disruptive innovation the same thing? After all, the car, the telephone, the smartphone, the electric car, the solar panel, weren’t these all breakthroughs that were also disruptive? Zipcar is a good example of breakthrough innovation. What Is Disruptive Innovation? In a sense, yes.

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Students need internships, but internships need disrupting

Christensen Institute

Strada and Burning Glass Institute’s new Talent Disrupted report made headlines this week conveying the indisputable crisis of underemployment that an astounding half of college graduates face. But internships—like so many pricey and scarce experiential learning opportunities—are primed for disruption.

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Use a Strategy Uncertainty Map to Find Clarity in Disruptive Times

Leapfrogging

The past two years were as disruptive as they get for both society and business. A Strategy Uncertainty Map is a visual representation of your top opportunities, which can include products, services, projects, or business strategies. You might want to select of mix of low-risk and high-risk projects so you can hedge bets.

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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. Disruption is innovation, but not all innovation is disruption, just like all squares are technically rectangles , but not all rectangles are squares. What Disruption Does. Disruption has elements of both destruction and creation.

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Lateral Thinking in Business Strategy

Destination Innovation

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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Digital transformation examples

Board of Innovation

Digital transformation examples How do you structure a digital transformation process, who needs to be involved, where to start? In our own innovation consultancy projects, we regularly look at how other companies approached this problem. Table of contents 9 insights from our corporate innovation journey. Unplug from the organization.