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What is Disruptive Thinking?

Destination Innovation

Elon Musk (Transportation): Musk disrupted the automotive industry with Tesla’s electric cars and transformed space exploration through SpaceX. Here are some examples of famous people who used disruptive thinking: Henry Ford (Manufacturing): Ford copied the idea of the production line from a meat packing factory.

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What Radio Flyer and Harley-Davidson Have in Common

Adam Hartung

Harley Davidson and Radio Flyer have both embraced trends in the market for personal transportation. Both companies are expanding from existing markets to new ones.

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Building and refining the interfaces in learning ecosystems (Part 4)

Christensen Institute

Most families need reliable child care and transportation throughout the day, value the supervised socialization that happens in schools, and don’t want to worry about how an amalgamation of learning experiences fits together into a cohesive educational program that is recognized as a marker of readiness for postsecondary opportunities.

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Risks Can and Should Be Calculated. Here’s the Formula.

Daniel Burrus

Going even further, he is now moving forward with the Boring Company , which moves to transport people in their vehicles underground in train-like fashion, without cluttering the Earth with above ground tracks. An Anticipatory Entrepreneur goes beyond simply improving upon something that already exists.

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Questions about Innovation

InnovationTraining.org

How does innovation relate to entrepreneurship? The creation of new business models, such as the sharing economy, which has enabled individuals and companies to share resources and services in new ways, and has disrupted traditional industries such as transportation, hospitality, and retail. What are the different types of innovation?

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The future of sick care work

Innovation Excellence

Those forces include: The recognition that population health is created or destroyed by socioeconomic determinants like nutrition, education, transportation and housing. Entrepreneurship education and training integration. Most of the jobs of the future have yet to be created. Rethinking funding models and student debt.

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Focus on the Problem, not the Customer’s Request

Destination Innovation

The real problem is how to significantly increase the supply of customised transport. Surveys of taxi users showed that they wanted more availability of taxis and lower prices. The obvious answer is to issue more licences for taxis. So by all means involve the customer.

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