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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. 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. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Third, hardware entrepreneurs in some cities can now access a sophisticated supporting infrastructure, including a sizable ecosystem of hardware “studios,” incubators, accelerators, and service-providers that has grown up to abet start-ups in dozens of cities from Austin to Providence to Miami.

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The Reality of What Makes Silicon Valley Tick

Harvard Business Review

Others see it as a giant economic engine spitting out startup after startup to capitalize on the region''s wealth of innovations. Here''s my advice, then, if you are one of those organizations that sends scouts to Silicon Valley or establishes an outpost to tap into the innovation taking place here. Creativity Economy Innovation'

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Why I Still Believe in India

Harvard Business Review

If anything, it made them more committed to finding creative ways to drive innovation and growth. It featured a small team of energetic leaders with audacious dreams about substantially growing their business unit. The challenges facing companies in India didn't faze this group. India's infrastructure issues need to get fixed.

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Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less

Harvard Business Review

My colleague Andy Hargadon noted this when he did an ethnography of the renowned innovation firm IDEO in the 1990s. Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. Based on better customer retention alone, management estimates this innovation has boosted annual revenues by $10 to $20 million.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Want to Do Corporate Innovation Right? Go Inside Google Brain

Harvard Business Review

Each of these companies, in its own way, is a superior innovator. So to better understand how Google innovates, I took a close look at what it’s doing in one area: Deep Learning, a devilishly complex form of artificial intelligence that helps machines to absorb and act on information much as humans do. An internal incubator.