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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
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Disruptive Innovation: What Causes the Creative Leap?
What causes the difference in magnitude of creative leap? One may create a quantum leap, but other innovations may not be that significant. Is there a process to manifest and channelize creative energy? Obviously many people were and are existing as living examples. However what could be the process involved?
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Rick Mueller
Professor, United States
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Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Srini, there's an "old saying" in the US that "necessity is the mother of invention". I believe there may be some truth in that.
Add to that the concept of the "Burning Platform" to create the desired necessity and you get some creative solutions to the problem.
Sometimes the solution is to put out the fire. These are your every-day solution - which Clay Christensen calls "sustaining innovations" (to differentiate them from disruptive innovations).
Sometimes the solution to the burning platform problem is to create a new platform sufficiently distant from the old platform (Editor: see Forget, Borrow, Learn) as to reduce/eliminate the possibility of being followed by the fire. To build a new platform and simultaneously learn how to maintain oneself on it is a pretty difficult trick for an established firm with its many mouths to feed, so for that reason it is best to have one or more alternative platforms under construction at all times.
Thoughts?
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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
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Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Rick, totally agree with you that necessity is the mother of invention. Trick is all about getting an out of the box sol...
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Rick Mueller
Professor, United States
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The Hole in the Box
Hi Srini and thanks,
Another "old saying" is one about having the ability to lead a horse to water but not having the a...
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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
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Leading a Horse to Drink
Rick, the saying leading a horse to the water but not having the ability to make him drink may be true to animals and an...
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Rick Mueller
Professor, United States
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Founders ARE a Different Animal
Hi Srini, indeed Elon Musk, and successful founders in general, are made of something different than the norm. My impres...
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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
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Animalism Defined
Rick, used the term animalism to mean that nature itself lacks sensitivity towards the change that is happening around a...
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Rick Mueller
Professor, United States
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Maybe You don't Have to Be Crazy to Be Disruptive, But it Appears to Help
Elon Musk's ex-wife seems to believe that being a misfit helps a lot (ti.me/1Q95EJ8/) and when you think of folks like J...
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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
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Culture and Fitness is the Key
I am a student trying to explore on the aspect of process adopted by the successful few where they created value in a sy...
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Rick Mueller
Professor, United States
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One More Element: Timing
Oh, and one more thing (as Steve Jobs was so fond of saying): Timing is everything....
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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
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Expansion to Righteousness
How about right focus (creating an environment to have right focus), right training, right customer service in the servi...
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Rick Mueller
Professor, United States
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Where Having More Can Result in Getting Less
If what you want to replicate is a given outcome, then you constrain the innovation process. Following a recipe assures ...
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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
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Just Right Works
Rick, it is a learning conversation that I am having today, thank you. As mentioned earlier two cases it is not about ho...
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Rick Mueller
Professor, United States
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Success is not So Much what You Get But Rather what You do with what You've Got
Hi Srini, the ability and allowance to intelligently iterate is indeed an essential ingredient of innovation. But if you...
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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
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Independent Innovation Unit
The objective we are trying to accomplish is dependent on a many variables and iteration is the only way that we can fin...
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Rick Mueller
Professor, United States
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I Thought we Were Looking for the Quantum Leap?
Srini, the process you describe, incrementally getting closer and closer to a prescribed outcome while remaining within ...
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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
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Quantum Leap Process Remains Same?
Rick, oh yes… Does the process remain the same even for the quantum leap? Your inputs are welcome...
How would one mani...
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