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Innovation diversity

December 15, 2009

I really love whitespace/revolutionary/disruptive innovation. I just dig it. Typical line extensions just don’t quite do it for me. But that’s a personal preference. It doesn’t reflect the totality of my opinion on how companies ought to manage their innovation efforts. In fact, I have written of the need to pursue both revolutionary and evolutionary [...]

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We can change the world

April 9, 2008

The world is going to change. This is a certainty. And it will change in an unsentimental fashion with no concern for your deeply help beliefs or assumptions. Sitting astride history and shouting “stop” is simply childish. You have only two real options: 1) Let the change happen as it happens. Guided by randomness and/or [...]

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The corrupt calculus of cannibalization

March 24, 2008

There is something seriously wrong about the way that new business opportunities are evaluated. We always look at cannibalization and incrementality. That is, how much of the new business is truly incremental to the existing business as opposed to simply replacing existing sales. The cannibalized portion is subtracted off of the total sales to yield [...]

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