From Roger Van Oech’s Innovative Whack Pack:
Hat Tip: Farnamstreet
@wadhwa why don’t more people disrupt themselves?
— Steve Koss (@SteveKoss) February 8, 2012
I spotted this tweet by fellow Renegade @stevekoss in response to this tweet by @wadhwa:
Technology increasingly going to disrupt industries. New jobs will be different, and require advanced skills
— Vivek Wadhwa (@wadhwa) February 8, 2012
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.…
There were a lot more interesting reads this week, check out my Delicious bookmarks on Innovation for more.
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.…
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. …