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Some ?What If?? Questions You Should Be Asking Right Now

Next Level Blog

Innovation – The late, great Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen was famous for coming up with and exploring the idea of disruptive innovation – the impact a small upstart company can have on an industry when it disrupts the competitive landscape by doing something radically new that works. What would we change?

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2015 Compilation

Leading Blog

MIT: New research fundamentally challenges Clay Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation. Top Twelve Trends in Leadership Today by @bradlomenick. by Chris Patten via @wef. 5 Ways Listening Like an Anthropologist Will Make You a Better Leader by Karin Hurt @LetsGrowLeaders. How to Manage Your Ego by Anne Perschel @bizshrink.

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4 Habits Of Innovators

The Horizons Tracker

Once you accept that truism, it becomes more a case of knowing where to look to spot trends as they enter the horizon.For incumbents, they can often get suckered into a narrow horizon that’s defined by their particular industry, and so miss the trends emerging in adjacent fields that will eventually disrupt them.

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How Innovative Trailblazers are Transforming Business

Skip Prichard

That’s what Brand Positive co-founder Sean Pillot de Chencey teaches in his book Influencers & Revolutionaries: How Innovative Trailblazers, Trends and Catalysts Are Transforming Businesses. For more information, see Influencers & Revolutionaries: How Innovative Trailblazers, Trends and Catalysts Are Transforming Businesses.

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How Testbeds Can Help Us To Co-Create The Future

The Horizons Tracker

The late Clayton Christensen famously highlighted that consumers are not buying our product as much as they are hiring it to complete a particular job. For these people, the key is to be on top of the trends affecting their industry that may result in a change in strategic direction for their organization.

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On Tracking Transformational Trends

Harvard Business Review

That was the question I was wrestling with earlier this week when a multi-billion dollar Asian company asked for insight into the trends that could transform a core part of its business. Each external expert was asked to prepare a few thoughts about their perspective on the most critical transformational trends.

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Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term

Harvard Business Review

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that.