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Do Generalists Have Poorer Social Networks Than Specialists?

The Horizons Tracker

For all the talk of disruptive innovation, it more often occurs in an iterative fashion, with innovators standing on the shoulders of those who went before them. It’s one of the reasons migrants are often so innovative, as they are able to apply cultural norms from their homeland in their adopted home.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. Let me explain.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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What Coffee, Bleach, and Bondi Blue Teach Us about Innovation

Harvard Business Review

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. My concern over innovation condescension was provoked by surprising comments on a previous post. How trite and trivial.

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Can the Construction Industry Be Disrupted?

Harvard Business Review

Industry observers routinely deride the lack of technological sophistication in the construction industry, and have pigeon-holed it as old-fashioned and lagging behind more forward-looking and purposeful industries such as manufacturing. Construction is often maligned as the industry that technology left behind.

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Yet the industry will always remain a shadow of its former self, even as the products that disrupted pinball have revenues in the billions.

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Your Business Doesn’t Always Need to Change

Harvard Business Review

Instead of simply sticking to selling classic clothing, and waiting for outside catalysts (such as the popularity of the fashion in the television show Mad Men) to increase its popularity, the chain innovated around the edges by offering more fashionable accessories — shoes, belts, bags and the like — while leaving its core basically unchanged.