Apr 2, 2010
There are a lot of business lessons freely available in nature if we study it carefully enough.
Self organization and bottoms up systems as followed by ants and flocks of birds are already widely documented.
Business World recently published a good article about learning from nature about how to invade into existing businesses. The article uses example ranging from Asian carp to the zebra mussel and how they create new opportunities for themselves and those that can adapt quickly enough to help exploit the way they affect things.
Read the complete article here.
Feb 20, 2010
Fast Company magazine recently published the list of Most Innovative Companies 2010.
Facebook jumped from its no.15 ranking last year to top the chart this time, while amazon jumped from no.9 to no.2.
Interestingly there is a link specific to most innovative Indian companies and the leader of this lot is the Indian Premier League.
In the Design section IDEO, my personal favorite, comes second to the BMW Group Designworks.
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Feb 8, 2010
Disruptive Innovations as the name suggests is about innovations that disrupt the market. A disruptive innovation makes a product (which was earlier accessible only to richer or more skillful consumers) accessible to a whole new population of consumers.
The term disruptive technology was coined by Clayton M. Christensen in an article in 1995.
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