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Over the past few weeks, I’ve talked about the dangers of disruptive innovation. I’ve presented Christensen’s initial theory, then explored other factors that can contribute to disruption, and last week illustrated how dangerous disruption can be to industries and companies and YOU.
It certainly seems like an unstoppable juggernaught if your industry is “disrupted”.
So let’s go back to the first example of a disrupted industry – mobile phones- to see if all is lost.… Read more
The danger of disruptors and disruption is quite simple- they don’t care about your industry and have nothing to lose if they destroy it or you or even their own innovative new business. That’s dangerous competition.
In the last two weeks I’ve described Christensen’s theory of Disruptive Innovation, and last week I covered the other elements that can impact on disruption that Christensen didn’t take into account.… Read more
So what has throwing a 1 when others are throwing 6s got to do with you? We’ll as we talk further about disruptive innovation, we see the role luck has to do with success and failure.
In our previous post, we looked at the 4 key factors that Prof. Clayton Christensen, suggests creates “disruptive innovation”.
Seems to be a nice neat group of causes and last week I talked about the disrupted mobile phone industry and I’m sure we can all think of other businesses like have been disrupted in the same or similar ways.… Read more
I’m currently researching disruptive innovation and how managers can understand and use this approach to decode potential futures of their business within ever-changing and competitive industries.
The reason I’m posting this, in addition to trying to get my thoughts straight, is that the idea of disruption is widespread in industries now, and many companies claim to be disruptive.
I’d like to discuss how you can tell dangerously disruptive innovation, from normal positive innovation and how you can insulate yourself against being disrupted. … Read more
So i’m just back from three and a half weeks away from Acumen.
It was a great investment of my time. And I thoroughly recommend all managers in the middle going on holiday for an extended period at least once a year.
All to often we are stuck in the “I’m too important to the business to take time off” rut.… Read more