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Breaking Through | A New Frontier of Technology and Innovation

N2Growth Blog

We are witnessing the creation of an entirely new paradigm, a fierce wave of technological innovation boosting generations of new businesses and business leaders. The pace of technological applications and innovations has increased significantly in recent years. Innovation is doing new things.” – Theodore Levitt.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program.

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Lafley's Ambiguous "Gift" of Innovation Failure

Harvard Business Review

As Lafley recalled, P&G had planned to quietly test market Vibrant — their bleach offering to rival Clorox — in out-of-the-way Portland, Maine. I don't want to say "dirty tricks," (whoops, I just said it) but Clorox certainly took an innovative approach to squelching P&G's innovative threat. Clorox found out. "Do

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What Coffee, Bleach, and Bondi Blue Teach Us about Innovation

Harvard Business Review

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. My concern over innovation condescension was provoked by surprising comments on a previous post. How trite and trivial.

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Should Global Beer Company Molson Coors Enter the Cannabis Beverages Business?

Harvard Business Review

How Molson Coors balanced exploitation and exploration, while innovating to enter new beverage markets.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. If lawmakers don’t handle this correctly — well, consider Red Flag laws.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.