Tag Archives: disruption

Why don’t more people disrupt themselves?

in Behavior, Innovation

I spotted this tweet by fellow Renegade @stevekoss in response to this tweet by @wadhwa:

One word: Inertia. But I also think it’s because people don’t know what reinvention even means. And since reinvention doesn’t happen in a heart beat, people have a hard time identifying anything that changed for the better.…

Innovation must reads of the week: Age of Disruption?

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There were a lot more interesting reads this week, check out my Delicious bookmarks on Innovation for more.

 

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How to manage through disruption

in Innovation

Kevin Lynch, CTO of Adobe, interviews Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia.

Mr. Elop has some great thoughts about innovation and about managing through disruption. It’s interesting because both of them worked at Macromedia before it was bought by Adobe. If you remember well, Macromedia used to make authoring tools for CD-Rom’s back in the day before the internet existed.

They saw that the internet was a potentially disruptive force that would undermine their business and so they had to make decisions on where to focus and place their bets. Their bet was Flash and they put all of the resources behind it. Flash went on to become the leading platform for creating dynamic content on the web.…

Infographic: Most Disruptive companies in tech by the numbers

in Innovation

What is disruption?

Disruptive companies create innovations that invade the market, force change, and create new sectors of the industry. And for companies like Google, Apple, Netflix, Skype, Tata and Pandora, disruption is their game.

And what do the most disruptive companies in technology have in common? They challenged the conventional market and created a new one. …

Innovation Posts of the week: Move with the speed of disruption

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The top 10 ways to get your team to contribute the best ideas – Front End Innovation Blog

Five Lessons to Boost Your Innovation Practices – Innovation Management

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity – HBS Working Knowledge

Why You May Be Blind to a Good Idea (and What to Do About It) – HBR

Creativity Paradox: Uncertainty drives search for creativty, but builds bias against it – Physorg

Move With the Speed of Disruption – Inc.com

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Innovation posts of the week: The 3 Types of innovators

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Want to be disruptive? Be on the lookout for disruptive thinking

in Creativity, Innovation

Last week I told you about a client who had an epiphany and now he and his company are ready to ‘think about what they’ve never thought about‘. Great, but where to start?

You need to new ideas. Different ones. That has to be clear. You need to think disruptively by thinking about what’s changing in the world and how those changes, in aggregate, can make your business disappear. You also have to look for entrants whose business model could potentially disrupt yours. You also have to look at how your customers tastes and needs have and may change. You also need to think about how you can/could disrupt yourself. …