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Why do we have difficulties to self-disrupt?

Paul Hobcraft

“Why do we always seem to have internal difficulties to self-disrupt?”. In most cases, organizations cannot self-disrupt, which is largely covered by this veritable list of constraints. Organizations often are far too close to existing markets to recognize that they are actually shifting; they ignore or miss the signs in many ways.

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China the story of innovation and disruption.

Paul Hobcraft

Disruption is all around us; it never seems to go away; it simply appears in a different and often entirely new form. The result is the same; it disrupts what we know and often in how we suddenly need to set about doing it differently. Much of the innovative disruptions seem so obvious; you wonder why we were not doing these before.

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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? It opens the company to new markets and changes the way customers interact with the market or the industry.

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Surrounded: When disruption hits on all sides (Part 2)

Christensen Institute

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?

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This Tech Is Transforming Real Estate and is Creating a Major Market Opportunity

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Smart home technology is disrupting real estate, presenting a significant market opportunity for designers, builders, entrepreneurs and investors.

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My own transformative dynamics of disruption

Paul Hobcraft

It is a very disrupting, disturbing world. We often make what amounts to a series of mistakes, constantly extrapolating the present and layering it onto a way we see the future, based on what we know or are reluctant to give up. We have to push this into more of the cross-sector cascading effects of disruptions.

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Masters of Marketing 2023: Key Insights from Top Marketing Executives

Brunner

At this year’s ANA Masters of Marketing Conference, more than 2,000 marketing professionals applauded impressive success stories and oohed over the inspiring work shared during the gathering Oct. Here’s a recap of insights shared by a dozen marketing executives from prominent brands. 24-27 in Orlando. ❧❧❧ Marc S.