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By: Blogging Innovation » Better to be a Cannibal

Blogging Innovation » Better to be a Cannibal — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 04:05:38 +0000

[...] There can be good reasons to not react to a threat. However, whenever I hear someone say that they won’t introduce an innovation because it will cannibalize market share, I get worried. This is another “internal constituency” problem – over the long run, you should be a cannibal. [...]

By: How Do You Know When to Jump? « Innovation Leadership Network

How Do You Know When to Jump? « Innovation Leadership Network — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:10:28 +0000

[...] There can be good reasons to not react to a threat. However, whenever I hear someone say that they won’t introduce an innovation because it will cannabilize market share, I get worried. This is another “internal constituency” problem – over the long run, you should be a cannibal. [...]

By: The Perils of Disruption « gabriel catalano | in-perfección

The Perils of Disruption « gabriel catalano | in-perfección — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:00:12 +0000

[...] Here’s how I put it in an earlier post: [...]

By: The Perils of Disruption « Innovation Leadership Network

The Perils of Disruption « Innovation Leadership Network — Fri, 21 May 2010 09:24:27 +0000

[...] Here’s how I put it in an earlier post: [...]

By: What Does a Good Innovation Option Look Like? « Innovation « Innovation Leadership Network

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:22:29 +0000

[...] essay on the NPV trap, which is very supportive of the survey results. Tim subsequently wrote a blog piece on this [...]

By: Innovation Lessons from Charles Leadbeater « Innovation « Innovation Leadership Network

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:39:45 +0000

[...] is a good discussion of why the organisational imperatives within large firms lead to incremental innovation rather than breakthroughs. It is much easier to get sign off on an [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:02:43 +0000

Quite possibly Andrew. Although the other reason is that they often have less choice – they have one idea and they have to get it to work or they’re out of business. In that circumstance, it’s easier to ignore financial forecasts, especially if they’re not so favourable…

By: Andrew Dick

Andrew Dick — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:48:40 +0000

Do you think part of the reason young businesses are more innovative is because they have less “sophisticated” finance functions and therefore don’t get into detailed, innovation killing DCF analysis?

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:59:57 +0000

Well, it is and it isn’t too positive Sam. Any time you evaluate a potential new scheme, if the potential upside isn’t positive, you don’t do it. So one of the assumptions here is that everything being evaluated has at least gotten over that hurdle.

The next question is how accurate are the projections? In many cases this is just pulling numbers out of thin air. You do want to try to make them as accurate as possible, but they’ll always be fuzzy. Especially for more disruptive innovations…

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