Tag Archives: Disruptive Innovation

The “French perfume” innovation

Posted on February 3, 2020 by Eugene Ivanov

(This post originally appeared on Medium) I grew up in the Soviet Union and know a thing or two about the shortage of goods. The perennial chasing of hard-to-get stuff had instilled in me and my compatriots one simple habit: … Continue reading →

Does “process” kill innovation?

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Eugene Ivanov

Reading Steve Blank is always a pleasure. Not only is he among the world’s best scholars of corporate innovation; his ability to explain complex things in a simple language is unparallel. Blank’s recent HBR piece, “Why Companies Do ‘Innovation Theater’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Innovation | Tagged Disruptive Innovation, Harvard Business Review, Innovation, Innovation Management, innovation tools | 2 Comments

One more time about “innovation terminology”

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Eugene Ivanov

In a recent HBR article, Scott Kirsner suggests ditching the term “corporate entrepreneur.” Kirsner names a number of reasons why corporate innovation, especially in large firms, is different from true entrepreneurship. One is bureaucratic shackles that restrict the development of … Continue reading →

Posted in Innovation | Tagged 3-Horizon Model of Innovation, Customer co-creation, Disruptive Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business Review, Incremental Innovation, Innovation, Innovation Management, innovation tools, Integrative Innovation Management, Intrapreneurship, Open Innovation, Open Innovation Tools, Radical Innovation, Startups | Leave a comment

One more time about “culture of innovation”

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Eugene Ivanov

My previous post, “The “culture of innovation:” misnomer, oxymoron, myth or chimera?”, has caused a lively discussion in a number of LinkedIn groups. Approximately half of the commenters were sympathetic to my claim that the very term “culture of innovation” … Continue reading →

Posted in Innovation | Tagged 3-Horizon Model of Innovation, Chief Innovation Officer, Culture of Innovation, Disruptive Innovation, Innovation, Innovation Management, Integrative Innovation Management, Open Innovation | 1 Comment

Dis-r-r-r-uption!

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Eugene Ivanov

My previous post has triggered a number of interesting, often negative, comments in various LinkedIn Groups. My opponents criticized my suggestion that the current state of innovation wasn’t as bad (“broken”) as a few recent articles I referred to were … Continue reading →

Posted in Innovation | Tagged Clayton Christensen, Disruptive Innovation, Incremental Innovation, Innovation, Innovation Management, Radical Innovation | 8 Comments

Cloudy Vision, Cloudy Execution

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Eugene Ivanov

As every high-quality report on innovation, Accenture’s 2015 U.S. Innovation Survey is a mixed bag of news. On the one hand, responses provided by “500 managers and executives with roles in innovation at large U.S. companies” paint a bright … Continue reading →

Posted in Innovation, Portfolio Management | Tagged 3-Horizon Model of Innovation, Accenture, Chief Innovation Officer, CINO, Culture of Innovation, Disruptive Innovation, idea management software, Incremental Innovation, Innovation, Innovation Management, innovation tools, Integrative Innovation Management, Radical Innovation, Wazoku, Zdzisław Beksiński | 4 Comments

The dawn of the “craft economy”?

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Eugene Ivanov

In a 2012 Harvard Business Review article, Maxwell Wessel made an interesting point. He argued that the corporate scale had ceased providing large companies with the same competitive advantage as it used to in the past. Being bigger doesn’t guarantee … Continue reading →

Posted in Global Innovation, Innovation, Startups | Tagged Alibaba.com, Collaborative Innovation, Collaborative Innovation Transforming Business, competitive advantage, Craft Economy, David, Disruptive Innovation, Driving Growth, Goliath, Harvard Business Review, Innovation, Innovation Management, innovation tools, Job security, Maxwell Wessel, Nicco Mele, Radical Innovation, Small Businesses, Startups, World Economic Forum | 3 Comments

Are We Faking Innovation?

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Eugene Ivanov

Let me begin with a couple of quotes. “Innovation is like teenage sex; everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it!” (Cris Beswick, Founder … Continue reading →

Posted in Innovation | Tagged Chief Innovation Officer, Cris Beswick, Disruptive Innovation, Incremental Innovation, Innovation, Innovation Excellence, innovation horizons, Innovation Management, Paul Hobcraft, Radical Innovation, value creation, Wazoku | 11 Comments

Internal Innovation Networks as a Basis for Corporate Intrapreneurship

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Eugene Ivanov

(This post first appeared on the Front End of Innovation Blog) Intrapreneurship is a relatively new concept developed to help large companies create new businesses, a process often called transformational (or disruptive) innovation. Intrapreneurship aims at instilling the spirit of entrepreneurship–usually … Continue reading →

Posted in Internal Innovation Networks, Portfolio Management | Tagged “not invented here” syndrome, Breakthrough Innovation, Culturevate, Disruptive Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Incremental Innovation, Innovation, Innovation Management, Institute for International Research, internal innovation networks, Intrapreneurship, Radical Innovation, The Corporate Intrapreneur Summit, Transformational Innovation | 1 Comment

Ambidexterity vs. Ecosystems: In Search for Sustainable Model of Intrapreneurship

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Eugene Ivanov

(This post first appeared on the Front End of Innovation Blog) Innovation has climbed to the top of the corporate agenda in many large organizations, but its practical impact on the corporate performance has often been disappointing. Some would go as … Continue reading →

Posted in Portfolio Management | Tagged 3M, Breakthrough Innovation, Charles O’Reilly, Collective Disruption, Culturevate, Disruptive Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Google, Incremental Innovation, Innovation, Innovation Management, Institute for International Research, Intrapreneurship, Michael Docherty, Michael Tushman, Radical Innovation, The Ambidextrous Organization, The Corporate Intrapreneur Summit, Transformational Innovation | 2 Comments