Strategy. Innovation. Brand.

sustaining innovation

Sunday Shorts – 9

Fish gangs.

Fish gangs.

Interesting things I’ve spotted this week.

Boston Consulting Group highlights the most innovative companies of 2012. What makes them more innovative than your company?

What makes beautiful things beautiful? What’s the perfect ratio of fractals to non-fractals and how did Jackson Pollock know it? Maybe the secret of beauty is buried in our genes.

The rate of growth in health care costs has slowed dramatically over the past four years. Now why would that be?

Spending on health care construction has also dropped precipitously. See the most important health care chart that nobody is talking about.

Do you flush your Valium down the toilet? You could be causing fish to join gangs and drop out of schools.

What happens to the thermostat when it’s re-designed by the people who designed the iPhone and the iPod?

Sustaining versus Disruptive Innovations

Every company wants to be more innovative.  But some innovations will help your business while others will disrupt it.  You need to enable sustaining innovations and defend against disruptive innovations.  But sometimes, disruptive business innovations are inevitable.  The only way to defend against them is to adopt them and disrupt your own business.  Hey, better to disrupt your own business rather than have someone else do it for you.  Right, Kodak?

Learn more in the video.

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