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Leadership Comes in Many Forms. Helping Business Save the Earth.

Great Leadership By Dan

Innovating O ur Way to Sustainability , we assert that to address these challenges requires substantial, disruptive innovation across a wide number of sectors. Such innovation cannot and will not happen without the active involvement of the business community. Innovation is more than invention.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

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Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. DAVID: Yeah.

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What Big Consumer Brands Can Do to Compete in a Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share and small companies increasing theirs. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share.

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The Clean-Tech Economy at the Base of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

companies produce the batteries required for price-competitive electric vehicles that can truly shift the market? Perhaps it is here, and not in Americans' two-car garages, where the large early market for advanced battery technology resides. The Chinese now account for 80% of this market and will soon take it global.

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How to Prioritize Your Innovation Budget

Harvard Business Review

Disruptive Innovation. This significant breakthrough in the organization’s operating model and value network facilitates the achievement of growth in a new market, disrupting the entrenched players. This usually requires incubation and protection of a new venture in an autonomous unit.

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The Idea That Led to 10 Years of Double-Digit Growth

Harvard Business Review

This process of "disruptive innovation" enabled new competitors to create entirely new product categories. Then rapid improvement in cell phone technology combined with sharp reductions in cost opened up massive new markets that existing terrestrial business telecommunications companies had missed.

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A Disciplined Approach to Evaluating Ideas

Harvard Business Review

This kind of process can help successfully move an idea from a Post-It note to the market. Our fund specifically looks to seed businesses that have the potential to disrupt existing markets or create new ones. What does that actually mean in practice? The first decision is whether to have a meeting to evaluate a company.