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Are we overly obsessed with disruptive ideas?
If you disrupt and can’t sustain, you don’t win. – Gary Pisano
Disruptive innovations that throw industries into chaos hog the spotlight. We are all transfixed by Google’s Moonshot attempts at either changing transportation, how we interact with objects and people that we believe those are the only innovations that matter.
Academics and consultants like coming up with fancy ways of describing certain types of behaviors and outcomes, and when it comes to innovation incremental and radical are such they use to describe and compare between small plain-vanilla innovation and radical or disruptive innovation.…
Why don’t businesses experiment to drive innovation?
There is no innovation without experimentation…
A while back, Dan Ariely wrote a thoughtful column in the Harvard Business Review about why businesses don’t experiment:…
Innovation must reads of the week: Managers Don’t Really Want to Innovate
- 3 Lenses For Innovation by @wimrampen
- How Enemies Power Innovation – Fast Company
- Why Innovation Dies by @sgblank
- Managers Don’t Really Want to Innovate – HBR
- Uncommon Sense: How to Turn Distinctive Beliefs Into Action – MIT Sloan Management Review
Innovation must reads of the week: Ten Red Flags for Innovation
- Ten Red Flags for Innovation: Why It Fails by @lindegaard
- Why Innovators Don’t Always Win – Forbes
- Crowdsourcing Innovation: How To Make Sure You Spot The Best Ideas – FastCoCreate
- The Four Worst Innovation Assassins – HBR
- Why You Won’t Get Breakthrough Innovation by Being Nice – HBR
- How to tell if you are an innovator by @ovoinnovation
Innovation must reads of the week: Achieving Successful Strategic Transformation
- Want Breakthrough Ideas? First, Listen To The Freaks And Geeks – Fast Co Design
- Eureka moment: Does man or machine drive innovation? – BBC
- The Dangers of the Minimal Viable Product – HBR
- Compete on Know-Why, Not Know-How by @richardsona
- Adapting to Survive: The Key to Jugaad (and Other Styles of) Innovation by @frogdesign
- Achieving Successful Strategic Transformation – MIT Sloan Management Review
What are you doing to escape old ideas?
in Innovation
“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.” – Keynes
Coming up with new ideas is a piece of cake. But escaping the pull of the tried and true is the difference between staying releant or not. Old ideas are like oxygen, we don’t even know they are there.
For example, a days ago Nilofer Merchant argued that Michael Porter’s model of Competitive Strategy needs an update. She posted her thoughts on HBR of all places. But see, it’s true. …