Disruptive Innovation The disruptive innovation is probably one of the most important innovation theories of the last decade. The core concepts behind it circulated so fast that already in 1998, one year after the publication of the theory, people were using the term without making reference to Harvard professor Clayton Christensen or to his book The Innovator’s Dilemma (Harvard Business School Press). This article is the seventh part of the Innovation Management Theory series, you can check the previous six clicking here. Disruptive Innovation The term disruptive innovation as we know it today first appeared in the 1997 best-seller The Innovator’s Dilemma. Christensen describes how one of his friends was responsible for that choice when he commented that “those who study genetics avoid studying humans because new generations come along only every thirty years or so, it takes a long time to understand the cause and effect of any changes. Sustaining vs. The disk drive industry The story repeats itself
Frameworks | A publication of the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley Each year CED honors a select few outstanding alumni who have made significant contributions in their professional careers. This year the college celebrated the remarkable accomplishments of Meric Gertler, Gwendolyn Wright, and Mark Francis, FASLA, with the 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award during the fourth annual Berkeley Circus Soirée. On March 14, Dean Jennifer Wolch presented the honors at a ceremony held in the skybox of California Memorial Stadium. Full story Antony Kim In May 2013, CED Architecture graduate student Antony Kim and his faculty mentor, Galen Cranz, were among 11 teams chosen from top higher-education institutions around the world for the first-ever Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowship. Full story
What is Your Unfair Advantage? New business ventures often face the challenge of how to be truly differentiated. In his book Running Lean, Ash Maurya offers a new take on differentiation by introducing the concept of unfair advantage. He quotes Jason Cohen: A real unfair advantage is one that cannot easily be copied or bought. The leadership team at Avondale has been discussing a potential new venture around private equity (PE) investing. We set a goal of writing down this business model in 20 minutes, because we do not want to waste time on something that absorbs resources but creates no value. We are in the home stretch, with only a few minutes left! Examples of Unfair Advantages: As Jason Cohen points out, unfair advantage can come from a number of sources, including: Inside information (not the illegal kind): In-depth knowledge or skills that are critical to the problem domain. A single-minded, uncompromising obsession with One Thing: An example of this is Google's focus on developing the best search engine. Whew!
Why aren’t CEOs ambitious any more? “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde In the Japanese city of Sapporo, one man towers above all others. “Shounen yo, taishi wo idake!” A chemistry professor and colonel in America’s Civil War, Clark had been hired by the Japanese government to establish an agricultural college on Hokkaido. That agricultural college is now Hokkaido University and Clark’s statue overlooks Sapporo from several vantage points. Today, too few leaders seem to share Clark and Jobs’ visionary zeal. “We grossly underestimate the extent to which the world has changed,” says Steve Vamos, former CEO of Microsoft Australia and now a director on several blue-chip Australian boards. “We’re stuck in these old ways of thinking. A new survey by global IT services firm Accenture confirms the sense of stagnation. “A cautious approach to innovation is understandable, given the relatively disappointing results,” Accenture says. Story continues on page 2.
Ideas Matter This rural Oregon man (U.S.) is going to jail for collecting rainwater in ponds on his own property. You can read more about the story here . His diatribe is long, but there's a lot good in there. Questions bubble up: who has rights to the rain -- property owners? Citizens are growing weary of government overreach. So what do we do about it? Continue reading "Story by Story, People are Waking Up" » It's amazing what readers will remind you of. Continue reading "The Great Story: Sit up and Pay Attention, Think Tanks" » You'll find this, eh hem, cute riff on the Lorax over at CollegeHumor.com. It's also not funny that college kids are getting stoopider because creative leftists are being more than 'liberal' with their treatment of both the classical liberal perspective and a great Dr. Continue reading "The Lorax: Why College Kids are Coming Out Stoopid" » Parth Shah of the Centre for Civil Society in India won 2nd place in Free To Choose Network's "What Milton Means to Me" video contest.
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Steve Blank | Entrepreneurship and Conservation Let 10 000 lights shine: how end users are cocr Grant Money Forum How Taking A Detour Can Actually Lead To Greater Innovation Back from U.S. Navy service in World War II, a college degree in hand, as well as rejection letters from all 23 of the medical schools to which he had applied, young Julius Jacobson enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania to pursue a Ph.D. degree in cell physiology. In the lab he stared through a microscope, all day, every day. Eventually accepted by Johns Hopkins and earning his medical degree, Jacobson did his surgical residency at Presbyterian Hospital in New York and then took the position of Director of Surgical Research at the University of Vermont. His first project there, as part of testing a new veterinary drug, was to stop a dog's nerves from functioning. And then it came to him--look at the artery under a microscope! The problem was not that the artery was too small to reconnect. “And the only reason I had that idea was because I couldn't get into medical school and had spent so much time in front of a microscope,” Dr.
Active Matter Matters | Frameworks In 2010, the National Science Foundation (NSF) recognized the need for novel research collaborations in the area of sustainable environmental design. For the first time in history, NSF issued a call for proposals with the requirement that architects be members of proposed project teams. The NSF Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) Science in Energy and Environmental Design (SEED) program includes a specific track focused on Engineering Sustainable Buildings. This program funded ten projects through a peer-reviewed competition of over 200 proposals. A singular, cross-campus collaboration at UC Berkeley, involving architecture (Maria-Paz Gutierrez), civil and environmental engineering (Slawomir Hermanowicz), and bio-engineering (Luke Lee), was among the first round of EFRI-SEED awards. The Berkeley team proposed the development of a new building technology for water recycling and thermal control based on micro-engineering principles for architecture (see figure 1).
#CultureCode: Designing a Culture of Innovation... Sukkah Wooden sukkot in Jerusalem Canvas-sided sukkah on a roof, topped with palm branches and bamboo s'chach A sukkah (Hebrew: סוכה, plural, סוכות sukkot ; sukkoth, often translated as "booth") is a temporary hut constructed for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot. Associated activities[edit] The halakha requires eating and sleeping in the sukkah. When rain falls on the sukkah, one is not required to stay inside. In Israel and other temperate climates (such as Florida, Australia, Texas, and Southern California), observant Jews will often conduct all their eating, studying, and sleeping activities in the sukkah. In Israel, it is common practice for hotels, restaurants, snack shops, and outdoor tourist attractions (such as zoos) to provide a sukkah for customers to dine in. All Lubavitcher Hasidim[5] and some Belzer Hasidim[6] (especially outside Israel) do not sleep in the sukkah due to its intrinsic holiness. Sukkot on graded apartment balconies in Jerusalem Structure[edit] Notes