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THE BOOK THAT CHANGED THE GAME

Create Marketplace Disruption: How to Stay Ahead of the Competition

By Adam Hartung, Re-release 2018, FT Press

Some companies can’t change in response to market disruptions. Those companies die. Other companies do respond…eventually. They survive, but they see their profits squeezed and their growth flattened. Then there are the long-term winners; companies that create their own disruptions and thrive on change. In Create Marketplace Disruption, Adam Hartung shows how to become one of those rare companies by creating lasting growth and profits.

Adam’s book reveals why so many companies behave in ways that are utterly incompatible with long-term success, and why even “good to great” companies are struggling for air. Adam demonstrates how to attack competitors’ Lock-ins, make their Success Formulas obsolete and create the White Space needed to invent your own new formulas for success.

What you will learn:

Create Marketplace Disruption shows how disrupting yourself is critical to reaping the benefits of market changes, and part of a process that can be reproduced over and over again. By reading this book, you will discover:

  • How we get into business trouble, and how to get out of it: The myth of perpetuity and the dark side of success.
  • That reinventing success means no more Defend and Extend: How to create your new Success Formulas and stay competitively advantaged.
  • Why “thinking outside the box” doesn’t work: First, get outside the box — then, think!
  • How to maintain “The Phoenix Principle” for long-term success: Practicing Disruption until it comes naturally.

CIO MAGAZINE AND INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATION SCIENCE

Along with his Forbes column, Adam has written a quarterly Leadership column for CIO Magazine since 2010 and been a contributing editor for the International Journal of Innovation Science since its founding in 2008.

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Watch Your Markets to Innovate

To start basic innovation just outside a company’s comfort zone the first step is Market Sensing. Here’s the way to add this component to your product launch process to improve success and brainstorming for the next big thing!

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Four Stages of Innovation Management

Most companies don’t have the experience or the process to attempt disruptive innovation. But, your organization can learn and gain experience while innovating in adjacent market segments. Here are the steps to succeed.

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White Space Innovation on Demand

Progressive companies have reduced the risk of disruptive innovation by partnering with the increasing number of business incubators. What started as a way for local governments and universities to add jobs and technology has become a Win-Win collaboration between big business and government. Here’s how your company can jump in.

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