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srinivas
Lecturer, 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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srinivas
Lecturer, India
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Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Rick, totally agree with you that necessity is the (...)
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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 (...)
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srinivas
Lecturer, India
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Leading a Horse to Drink
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Rick Mueller
Professor, United States
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Founders ARE a Different Animal
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srinivas
Lecturer, India
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Animalism Defined
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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
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srinivas
Lecturer, India
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Culture and Fitness is the Key
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Rick Mueller
Professor, United States
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One More Element: Timing
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srinivas
Lecturer, India
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Expansion to Righteousness
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Rick Mueller
Professor, United States
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Where Having More Can Result in Getting Less
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srinivas
Lecturer, India
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Just Right Works
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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
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srinivas
Lecturer, India
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Independent Innovation Unit
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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 get (...)
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srinivas
Lecturer, India
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Quantum Leap Process Remains Same?
Rick, oh yes… Does the process remain the same eve (...)
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