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While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptiveinnovation?
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Innovation – The late, great Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen was famous for coming up with and exploring the idea of disruptiveinnovation – the impact a small upstart company can have on an industry when it disrupts the competitive landscape by doing something radically new that works.
According to Christensen, you keep nimble and respond to up-and-coming innovations at the bottom of the market. You make a concerted effort to not let your company become vulnerable to what Christensen coined as disruptiveinnovation. That’s how you make lasting change. —.
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Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. Disruptiveinnovation is rarely raw genius that bubbles-up, but rather the culmination of several things: a sound idea, vetted through great process, refined by innovative application and brought to market by outstanding leadership.
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The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptiveinnovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptiveinnovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo.
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The difficulty in changing is often mostly about our psychology (not the technical difficulty of operating under changed systems and processes after making adjustments to adapt to take advantage of new opportunities). That past has a strong impact on how new opportunities are viewed (and often how they are ignored).
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” What you found is actually some evidence of the design thinking mentality and the design thinking process in larger, almost management operations and in strategy making and all of these sort of things that go beyond product design. It can be services, it can be experiences, etcetera.” It can work.
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He went on to say that the insatiable demands of today’s operational turbulence were robbing him and his organization of ability to invest in the future. We reflected on this, and on the broader context we’ve seen in our work, and created four high-level buckets into which resources and money can be poured: Daily Operations.
Since then, he has written over a half-dozen books and many more Harvard Business Review articles, almost all of which touch on disruption in some way. Academic journals have dissected the disruptiveinnovation theory and hundreds of thousands of students around the world have seen Christensen's famous model.
Consider that Disney, Ford and even HP and IBM remained successful for many years after the departure of their founders operating much the same way. It needs to mix the core business with the disruptiveinnovation. They were infused with an indelible culture and preserved it for some time. But a leader should aspire to do more.
They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic.
They were all ignored by the wireless operator, who was preoccupied with transmitting passenger messages and by the crew, who were focused on breaking the speed record. Clay Christensen's work on disruptiveinnovation shows the power of David against Goliath, the mammal over the dinosaur, the startup over the incumbent.
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