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The End Of Hand Crafted Content
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Old media loves nothing quite so much as writing about their own impending death. And we always enjoy adding our own two cents – the AP not knowing what YouTube is, the NYTimes guys reading TechCrunch every day, etc.
Speaking broadly, I like what Reuters, Rupert Murdoch and Eric Schmidt are saying: the industry [...]
The Key To Innovation: Putting Ideas And Information Together In New Ways
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There’s a new, massively detailed, study coming out on the secrets to being a great innovator, and the key finding really stands out:
“What the innovators have in common is that they can put together ideas and information in unique combinations that nobody else has quite put together before.”
Notice that one of the [...]
Yet Another Study Shows That Patents Lead To Sub-Optimal Innovation
Over the years, we’ve pointed to tons of research, especially historical research, that shows that near total lack of evidence that patents have any causal relationship to increased innovation.
Reminder From The Innovator’s Dilemma: Markets Change Whether You Like It Or Not
The management trap of disruptive technology is insidious because, like all good traps, it doesn’t look like one at first.
Disruptive technology/innovation
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In his book “The Innovator’s Dilemma”, Clayton Christensen (see article) made a distinction between two different types of technology that affect business, a distinction that has since become accepted wisdom. On the one hand he described what he called “sustaining technologies”, technological developments that help organisations to make marginal improvements in what they [...]










































