DISRUPTORS' ARTICLES

Forget Your Business Plan. Create a Strategy Map.

By Soren Kaplan | February 29, 2020 |

Strategic plans become outdated the moment they’re created. Instead, create a one-page strategy map. Having run the internal strategy consulting group at HP, and then consulting to both startups and big companies like Disney, Visa, Colgate, Medtronic and others, I’ve created hundreds of strategic plans. Business strategy used to be a clear and methodical process. No more. Today’s discontinuous technologies and…

Pros and Cons of Becoming an Innovation Consultant

By Pete Foley | February 20, 2020 |

One question many innovators face at some point in their careers is whether to work in a large, corporate organization, or in a small start up or consultancy. Today I want to revisit and update a blog I wrote a few years ago for LinkedIn that discussed some pros and cons of consultancy versus corporate…

Innovation and its Effect on World of Photography

By Jeffrey Phillips | February 19, 2020 |

We’ve reached a couple of interesting milestones in a very short period of time, and it behooves us to pay attention to the changes in what has been an important industry – photography. For innovators, it’s been easy to kick Kodak around, for having missed the transition to digital photography while owning many of the…

A Sad Fact: Leaders Who Lie Can Still Be Trusted by Their Followers

By Soren Kaplan | February 18, 2020 |

Being truthful and being trustworthy aren’t the same, which poses a problem for both society and the practice of leadership itself In today’s world, it’s hard to know who to listen to and what to believe. Who’s the best Presidential candidate? Is Brexit good or bad? Which college is best for my child? Usually there’s…

Four Questions to Choose Innovation Projects

By Mike Shipulski | February 17, 2020 |

It’s a challenge to prioritize and choose innovation projects. There are open questions on the technology, the product/service, the customer, the price and sales volume. Other than that, things are pretty well defined. But with all that, you’ve still go to choose. Here are some questions that may help in your selection process: 1. Is…

True Transformation Isn’t Top-Down Or Bottom-Up, But Side-To-Side

By Greg Satell | February 17, 2020 |

In a disruptive era, the only viable strategy is to adapt and that is especially true today. With change seeming to accelerate with each passing year, every organization must transform itself. Those who are unable to change often find that they are unable to compete and soon disappear altogether. There has been a long running…

The One Key to Success That Nobody Teaches You

By Tom Koulopoulos | February 16, 2020 |

Of all the things we do to ensure our success, one is more important than all else, and yet it’s only learned in the school of hard knocks. There are uncountable books on how to succeed in business, and all of them have something to teach. From being an efficient operator to being a great…

An innovation manager

What Is an Innovation Manager – And How Do You Become a Great One?

By Jesse Nieminen | February 16, 2020 |

In the last few months, I’ve had a few readers ask me how they could become an innovation manager, as well as how they could succeed in that role. So, I thought I’d give my take on what an innovation manager actually does, how to become one, and how to be good at the job.…

How to pick a coworking space in an innovation district

By Arlen Meyers | February 14, 2020 |

Coworking is the way people work these days. Coworking now takes up 27million sq feet of office space across the US, and 19 more growth statistics that prove coworking is the new normal. There are currently 14,411 coworking spaces in the world today. The number of coworking members will rise to 3.8 million by 2020 and…

Are you building NPD concepts with consumers in a way that sets them up for success?

By Shelly Greenway | February 13, 2020 |

The use of co-creation to build product concepts is a relatively rare and innovative practice. If you are embracing it you are a truly innovative innovator, a trail blazer following close behind pioneers of innovation best practice like PepsiCo, P&G and Danone. From our experience we have identified that a considerable shift in attitude and mindset…

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