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Diversity of Perspective is Key to Disruptive Innovation
Rick Mueller, Professor, United States, SIG Leader
“All new ideas are combinations of old ideas, but not all idea combinations are created equal,” writes Frans Johannsen.
An HBR article by Johansson tells how Mick Pearce designed the Eastgate office building in Harare, Zimbabwe.  He based it on techniques he observed termites employ to stabilize the internal temperature of their nests. Remarkably, the Eastgate maintains an ambient temperature between 73-78°F (23-26°C) despite variances in external temperatures from 58-88°F (14-31°C). And the building uses only 10% of the energy needed by a similar, airco cooled building.
Johannsen argues in his book that most innovation comes at the intersection of fields, and Pearce's building is just ...
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Diversity of Thought for Disruptive Innovation
Charles Alter, Consultant, United States, Member Indeed diversity of thought from people of diverse backgrounds is the key to understanding disruptive innovation. A good example of this that has been... |
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Barriers to Diversity May Result from Former Success
Bernhard Keim, Business Consultant, Germany, Premium Member Highly developed capabilities in existing products/technologies create barriers to developing capabilities in new products/technologies. When adapting... |
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Former Success Can Be the Worst Enemy
Gabi Levin, Israel, Member The demise of many companies in the technology sector is a dead proof that former success is poison.
One such great example - Kodak.
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Creativity from Diversity
Maurice Hogarth, Consultant, United Kingdom, Member Here are some further builds for this topic:
- Creativity is the relating of things that were previously unrelated – so the wider one’s range...
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Ahead! Ahoy! Diversity to Creativity
Arif ur Rehman, Professor, Pakistan, Member Being labelled as foolish (a failed outcome) is better than not experimenting and being designated as Mr. Right. An idea is never bad - looked into fr... |
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Labelled Foolish
Maurice Hogarth, Consultant, United Kingdom, Member @ Arif ur Rehman:Unfortunately ego in the majority of people does not allow for being labelled as foolish and such a... |
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