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I think people make innovation much more complicated than it needs to be.

Scott D. Anthony

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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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There is what Steve Blank calls the stage where you are searching for a scalable business model. Then, there is the stage when you have found that model and need to scale it. In the former stage you have to have a beginner's mind, be in learning mode, and expect to learn things you didn't anticipate.
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You have to chip away at it and shape it to let the winning idea emerge.
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Companies get into grooves and they keep sharpening what they are doing, when in fact what they really need to do sometimes is to stop and do something completely differently.
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Anytime you see a constrained market, where consumption is limited to those who have special skills or are wealthy, that signals an opportunity for innovation.
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Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.
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Everyone knows innovation involves developing unique understanding of a market, thinking expansively to develop a solution, and then finding a way to test rigorously and adapt quickly.
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If you are trying to improve the performance of existing operations in known markets, it is an analytical problem where it's just a question of aligning your execution engine in the right way. If it is about creating something new and different, you can't derive the right answer analytically.
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You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.
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It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun.
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Make sure that you take the time to think about how other companies might respond to your idea, both those companies already in the market you plan to target as well as others that might imagine targeting that market.
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It's very easy to skip steps when documenting an idea.
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Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market.
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I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent.
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All disruptive innovators make it easier and more affordable for people to do what matters to them, and follow a strategy that doesn't at first glance make sense to the market leader.
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Three of our core corporate values are inclusiveness, collaboration, and humility.
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Successful strategies adhere to a basic pattern.
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Of course if you are launching a new business you can thinking about revenues, profits, and so on, but metrics such as customer satisfaction or employee retention might be meaningful if you are focusing more internally.
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People who live in more than two countries are more successful innovators.
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Think about how much it costs to learn more. Sometimes you want to build confidence by knocking off the easy things.
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People who copy what exists copy a point-in-time artifact, and if you are managing the process correctly you are already hard at work on the next thing.
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