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Creating the conditions for disruptive innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

If you want new, fresh and radical ideas, get new perspectives and don't shout them down. But let's be honest - no business worth its salt is going to welcome in a bunch of naive idea generators or better yet children into the boardroom to create new products and services, even if the businesses need these perspectives.

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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Making strategy behind closed doors is a prescription for failure when disruptions are coming from all directions. This approach to strategy-making can lead to two major problems: Firstly, the ideas generated this way may not be innovative or inspiring. One such tool is the Nightmare Competitor Contest.

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You need a red team, not a red pill

Jeffrey Phillips

Red Team / Blue Team The idea of a red team (attacker or hacker) versus the blue team (defender or good guy) has become a staple of cybersecurity, but it has an older history than that. Why you should consider a red team Let's imagine, instead, that your innovation team, the people with the great new idea, are the blue team.

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To accelerate innovation, focus on culture

Jeffrey Phillips

Intent focus on the unimportant In an effort to be seen doing something, when innovation is a priority most organizations will respond with alacrity, gathering teams to conduct idea generation. The focus is on successful completion of the idea generation activity, not on actual implementation of new ideas.

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Interdisciplinary Innovation: Being Innovative is a Way of Imagining, Perceiving, Expressing, Inventing & Inspiring

InnovationManagement

Innovators present creatively disruptive traits, disrupt old ways, and inspire better ways to do things. They are passionate to connect, to learn, and to explore by understanding commonalities and appreciating uniqueness. Being innovative is a growth mindset and a proactive attitude.

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What do we expect from Innovation? Mostly disappointment

Paul Hobcraft

Then disruption suddenly hits. Both, for me a little damming for preparing for a disrupting world or positioning innovation as the future catalyst for growth. I picked out these as my specific takeaways: 41% of executives said their companies are extremely at risk or very at risk of disruption. Now that is shocking!

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How much of a Challenger Brand are you? 

Brunner

Disruption becomes a part of your DNA so you can achieve the previously unthinkable when delivering measurable value. . Q5) Is being disruptive a part of your company’s culture? . 1 = teams tend to keep doing the same time, 10 = leadership actively seeks innovative ideas from everyone. . .