From Incremental to Exponential: How Large Companies Can See the Future and Rethink Innovation
“This timely book reminds us that innovation is agnostic about where it's created.”
—Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft

Over and over, we see big legacy businesses getting beaten to the punch by energetic little start-ups. It seems like innovation can come from only the bottom up or from the outside in. But tech experts Vivek Wadwha and Ismail Amla are here to tell you that “big equals slow and stodgy” is a myth. Based on decades of experience working with both the world's leading brands and disruptive start-ups, this book explores the opportunity legacy companies have to create new markets, supercharge growth, and remake their businesses by combining the mindset and tool belt of start-ups with the benefits of incumbency: boatloads of customer data, decades of brand equity, robust distribution channels, enormous financial assets, and more.

Wadhwa and Amla go deeply into why the pace and dynamics of innovation have changed so dramatically in recent years and show how companies can overcome obstacles like the Eight Deadly Sins of Stasis. Equally important, they provide a playbook on how to use their insights in your own company, team, or career. This fast-paced, anecdote-rich story rethinks modern innovation—a book every manager, executive, and ambitious employee will want to read.
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From Incremental to Exponential: How Large Companies Can See the Future and Rethink Innovation
“This timely book reminds us that innovation is agnostic about where it's created.”
—Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft

Over and over, we see big legacy businesses getting beaten to the punch by energetic little start-ups. It seems like innovation can come from only the bottom up or from the outside in. But tech experts Vivek Wadwha and Ismail Amla are here to tell you that “big equals slow and stodgy” is a myth. Based on decades of experience working with both the world's leading brands and disruptive start-ups, this book explores the opportunity legacy companies have to create new markets, supercharge growth, and remake their businesses by combining the mindset and tool belt of start-ups with the benefits of incumbency: boatloads of customer data, decades of brand equity, robust distribution channels, enormous financial assets, and more.

Wadhwa and Amla go deeply into why the pace and dynamics of innovation have changed so dramatically in recent years and show how companies can overcome obstacles like the Eight Deadly Sins of Stasis. Equally important, they provide a playbook on how to use their insights in your own company, team, or career. This fast-paced, anecdote-rich story rethinks modern innovation—a book every manager, executive, and ambitious employee will want to read.
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From Incremental to Exponential: How Large Companies Can See the Future and Rethink Innovation

From Incremental to Exponential: How Large Companies Can See the Future and Rethink Innovation

From Incremental to Exponential: How Large Companies Can See the Future and Rethink Innovation

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Overview

“This timely book reminds us that innovation is agnostic about where it's created.”
—Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft

Over and over, we see big legacy businesses getting beaten to the punch by energetic little start-ups. It seems like innovation can come from only the bottom up or from the outside in. But tech experts Vivek Wadwha and Ismail Amla are here to tell you that “big equals slow and stodgy” is a myth. Based on decades of experience working with both the world's leading brands and disruptive start-ups, this book explores the opportunity legacy companies have to create new markets, supercharge growth, and remake their businesses by combining the mindset and tool belt of start-ups with the benefits of incumbency: boatloads of customer data, decades of brand equity, robust distribution channels, enormous financial assets, and more.

Wadhwa and Amla go deeply into why the pace and dynamics of innovation have changed so dramatically in recent years and show how companies can overcome obstacles like the Eight Deadly Sins of Stasis. Equally important, they provide a playbook on how to use their insights in your own company, team, or career. This fast-paced, anecdote-rich story rethinks modern innovation—a book every manager, executive, and ambitious employee will want to read.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781523089581
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication date: 10/17/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 248
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Vivek Wadhwa has been researching and teaching technology development and innovation for over a decade at leading universities such as Stanford, Duke, Harvard, and Carnegie Mellon. He is a regular keynote speaker and has been a globally syndicated columnist for the Washington Post and a contributor to publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, MarketWatch, and the Hindustan Times. Ismail Amla is chief growth officer of Capita. He is responsible for overseeing innovation efforts at Capita and both internal and client-facing transformation efforts globally.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Introduction: The Golden Age of Innovation Is Now 1

Part I Why Exponential Disruptions Are Happening More Quickly and More Often

1 The Technological Basis of Breakthrough Disruption 13

2 The Unexpected Consequences of Advancing Technologies 22

3 The Old Innovator's Dilemma versus the New Innovator's Dilemma 34

Part II Why Top-Down Innovation Efforts Usually Fail

4 False Assumptions, Broken Models, Wasted Effort 59

5 The Rules of the Game Have Changed in Critical Ways 78

6 What Has Not Changed 94

7 The Eight Deadly Sins That Disable Change Efforts 102

Part II Ways to Build Innovative, Exponentially Developing Companies

8 "Don't Buy This Jacket": Subverting Retail Expectations 117

9 Platform Technologies and Marketplaces 122

10 How to (Dis)organize for Innovation 131

11 The Tactics of Innovative Companies 137

12 Change Management and Company Culture: An Innovation Manifesto 146

13 How to Recognize and Use the Strengths of Incumbency 159

14 From Dinosaurs to Eagles: Four Case Studies 169

15 Innovation Management in Government 188

Conclusion: You Can't Ignore It; How Can You Embrace It? 197

Notes 203

Acknowledgments 215

Index 217

About the Authors 229

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