While innovation can be tricky (too many products, business plan failure, lack of new idea, ...), Clay Christensen shares a few things that, if you get them right, increase the probability of success.
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Using a War Room to Create Pervasive Innovations
Your teams did their market research. They ran an array of consumer insight sessions. They found the customers real Need. They ran professional ideation and storyboard sessions. They created prototypes and performed market tests. They developed their go to market strategy. They executed their plan. Product sales fell dramatically short of expectations. Why? What did they overlook?
Read More »Your Phone is Now Your Bank: Are You Ready for Disruptive Innovation?
Disruptive innovation is coming to every industry. Here’s how you can get ready for it.
Read More »Be Competitively Unpredictable!
Competitively unpredictable: two words that spell the key to success in today’s fast paced, highly competitive business arena.
Read More »How Samsung Changed the Game on Apple
Following very successful launches of the iPod (which transformed music from CDs to MP3) and iPhone (which turned everyone into smartphone users,) the iPad's transformation of personal technology made Apple look like an impenetrable juggernaut - practically untouchable by any competitor! But things look very different now.
Read More »The Super Supercapacitor
THE SUPER SUPERCAPACITOR is a Finalist in the $200,000 FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Competition and is in the running to become the $100,000 Grand Prize Winner. Ric Kaner set out to find a new way to make graphene, the thinnest and strongest material on earth. What he found was a new way to power the world.
Read More »Why Aren’t We Funding Management Innovation?
For those who are looking for a sustainable competitive advantage, doesn’t it occur to you that, compared to technology, it is more difficult to do and therefore copy, an innovation in management?
Read More »The Sky is NOT the Limit
Meet Peter Diamandis - the visionary man behind the X Prize Foundation which provides financial awards to spur the next generation of big thinkers and enable inventors to solve the world's biggest crises. Through this dynamic portrait we see the world through Diamandis' inspired point of view. Revolution through Competition!
Read More »Crappy Innovation
Can you be crappy? Do you dare? When we think about innovation, we usually think about what impresses us. Like Steve Jobs standing on a podium showing off his latest triumph: Incredible! Revolutionary! Mind Blowing!
Read More »Why Creating New Categories is so Successful
Creating a new category. The Holy Grail of Innovation. The Holy Grail of entrepreneurs. It’s when you can create a new category that you command the skies. Think of the iPad. Is it a new category?
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