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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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 disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo.

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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. If you follow his advice, you’re going to wait too long. Tell us a little bit about that model and how it kind of corrects the older models.

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Research: Self-Disruption Can Hurt the Companies That Need It the Most

Harvard Business Review

That’s the conventional wisdom, and it’s given rise to popular mantra “Disrupt or Be Disrupted.” ” If you’re dealing with innovations that have led to a dominant new business model in your industry, that advice is sound, as the leaders of Netflix and Blockbuster can tell you.

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Eight Essential Questions for Every Corporate Innovator

Harvard Business Review

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Research by Hal Gregersen and Jeffrey Dyer in fact shows that questioning is one of the behaviors that successful innovators share.

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How Separate Should a Corporate Spin-Off Be?

Harvard Business Review

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company.

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Just How Valuable Is Google's "20% Time"?

Harvard Business Review

What happens to self-image and individual expectations as enterprise definitions of "productively innovative" and "innovatively productive" change? At a certain point, innovation cultures are as much about "credibility" as creativity and ingenuity. Their innovation discretion shrinks while Google X''s horizons expand.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation.

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