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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. You are also the author of a ton of different stuff around this idea of disruption, the most recent one being- I’m making sure I get this title right. I’ve really enjoyed that for this book.

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Should Marketing or R&D Have More Power?

Harvard Business Review

R&D and marketing typically come at product development from different angles, and R&D’s “things” approach is often at odds with marketing’s “people” focus. In companies where R&D is very powerful, marketers can sometimes be heard complaining about products that are hard to understand and use.

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Patagonia's Provocative Black Friday Campaign

Harvard Business Review

This term comes from The World Database of Innovation, a collaboration between my company, Innovators International, and the CTOs of our member companies. Sisodia , he states that mission-led businesses outperform the market by an astounding 9:1 ratio (that's innovation by any measure at 1111%). In a study by Dr. Rajendra S.