Disruptive Innovation: What Causes the Creative Leap?



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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India

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
 

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.

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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
 

Necessity is the Mother of Invention

Rick, totally agree with you that necessity is the mother of invention. Trick is all about getting a... Sign up

 
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Rick Mueller
Professor, United States
 

The Hole in the Box

Hi Srini and thanks, Another "old saying" is one about having the ability to lead a horse to water ... Sign up

 
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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
 

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 tr... Sign up

 
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Rick Mueller
Professor, United States
 

Founders ARE a Different Animal

Hi Srini, indeed Elon Musk, and successful founders in general, are made of something different than... Sign up

 
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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
 

Animalism Defined

Rick, used the term animalism to mean that nature itself lacks sensitivity towards the change that i... Sign up

 
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Rick Mueller
Professor, United States
 

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 t... Sign up

 
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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
 

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 c... Sign up

 
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Rick Mueller
Professor, United States
 

One More Element: Timing

Oh, and one more thing (as Steve Jobs was so fond of saying): Timing is everything.... Sign up

 
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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
 

Expansion to Righteousness

How about right focus (creating an environment to have right focus), right training, right customer ... Sign up

 
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Rick Mueller
Professor, United States
 

Where Having More Can Result in Getting Less

If what you want to replicate is a given outcome, then you constrain the innovation process. Followi... Sign up

 
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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
 

Just Right Works

Rick, it is a learning conversation that I am having today, thank you. As mentioned earlier two case... Sign up

 
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Rick Mueller
Professor, United States
 

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 in... Sign up

 
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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
 

Independent Innovation Unit

The objective we are trying to accomplish is dependent on a many variables and iteration is the only... Sign up

 
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Rick Mueller
Professor, United States
 

I Thought we Were Looking for the Quantum Leap?

Srini, the process you describe, incrementally getting closer and closer to a prescribed outcome whi... Sign up

 
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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
 

Quantum Leap Process Remains Same?

Rick, oh yes… Does the process remain the same even for the quantum leap? Your inputs are welcome...... Sign up

   

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