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21 – 30 of over 3000The author observes that as customer-focused innovation takes hold in more and more industries, the result is a business environment that is coming to be known as “the Creative…
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The author observes that as customer-focused innovation takes hold in more and more industries, the result is a business environment that is coming to be known as “the Creative Economy,” an operating arena with unique “physics” that successful practitioners are beginning to be able to describe.
Design/methodology/approach
The author interprets the insights of both a successful serial entrepreneur and cutting-edge academics to shed fresh light on how to distinguish between real and false opportunities and threats in the new operating environment of the Creative Economy.
Findings
The author examines serial entrepreneur Peter Thiel’s seven – sometimes surprising – tools for implementing market-making innovation in the Creative Economy. They are, “the seven questions that every market-creating business must answer.”
Practical implications
A key insight of the article is that “All truly successful market-creating firms are de facto monopolies.”
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For both practitioners and academics, the article provides a guide to assessing market-making innovations and connects the experience of successful entrepreneurs with new conceptual models by thought leaders like John P. Kotter and Clayton Christensen.
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Tobias Fredberg and Johanna Pregmark
A reason why industry incumbents seldom survive technology transitions is their strong reliance on an efficient, but inflexible organizational system. We studied three digital…
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A reason why industry incumbents seldom survive technology transitions is their strong reliance on an efficient, but inflexible organizational system. We studied three digital transformation initiatives that created fast progress in a struggling newspaper group by working against the industry logic and established thinking in the area. This chapter argues that management succeeded in introducing a new strategic practice through these transformation initiatives. We focus on three factors contributing to the success: complexity management, short time development of a long-term vision, and the introduction of impossible goals.
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Jerry Aldridge, Jennifer L. Kilgo and Lois M. Christensen
This article explores the adoption of a transcultural education approach, rather than multicultural or intercultural education, and the implications this would have for…
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This article explores the adoption of a transcultural education approach, rather than multicultural or intercultural education, and the implications this would have for educational practice. With the multiple issues associated with multicultural and intercultural education, the authors emphasize the need for a definitive definition of the term “transcultural” in the educational literature, as well as a new model of transcultural education. Addressed in the article are: (a) the contribution of transdisciplinary teaming to the definition and practice of transcultural education; (b) the meaning of “trans” in the term, transcultural; (c) a discussion of culture and individuality related to education; and (d) possible conclusions to facilitate dialogue regarding the future of transcultural education. Twelve vignettes are included to provide real world examples of the need for a paradigm of transcultural education.
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Constructivist grounded theory method (GTM) as outlined by Kathy Charmaz has its explicit roots in the American pragmatism and symbolic interactionism primarily developed at the…
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Constructivist grounded theory method (GTM) as outlined by Kathy Charmaz has its explicit roots in the American pragmatism and symbolic interactionism primarily developed at the University of Chicago during the early and mid-twentieth century. Symbolic interactionism considers people as active and interpretative agents who co-construct selves, identities, meanings, social actions, social worlds, and societies through interactions. Charmaz argues that symbolic interactionism is an open-ended theoretical perspective that fosters studying action, process, and meanings, with a focus on how people co-construct and negotiate meanings, orders, and actions in their everyday lives. In this chapter, I argue that constructivist GTM, including its theory-method package built upon symbolic interactionism and the Chicago School tradition, can be further combined with the new sociology of childhood to study children's social worlds and negotiated meanings, orders, and actions.
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Over the past ten years, geographers have contributed to the growing body of interdisciplinary research developing new ways of undertaking research with children. Traditional…
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Over the past ten years, geographers have contributed to the growing body of interdisciplinary research developing new ways of undertaking research with children. Traditional research methods which do not directly involve working with children, such as the large scale observation of children, have been criticised for carrying out research on rather than with children. Instead, drawing upon the increasingly important children’s rights movement, researchers have been developing inclusive and participatory children centred methodologies, which place the voices of children, as social actors, at the centre of the research process. In this paper, we draw upon two ongoing postgraduate geographical research projects with children to reflect upon our own experiences of adopting children centred research methodologies. We also critically evaluate our own use of different innovative children centred research techniques, such as photographs, diaries, in‐depth interviews and surveys.We also highlight the importance of considering the impact of the spaces in which we conduct our research.
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This column is a reminiscent piece about how the origin of my work in the social studies and social justice was launched by a thoughtful and dedicated renaissance teacher.
Firms offering a variety of disruptive innovations – for example, Craigslist.com – are successfully undercutting the traditional newspaper business model; this paper aims to…
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Purpose
Firms offering a variety of disruptive innovations – for example, Craigslist.com – are successfully undercutting the traditional newspaper business model; this paper aims to describe a unique mode of counterattack.
Design/methodology/approach
The American Press Institute (API) recognized that the transformation taking place in the newspaper industry was a textbook example of disruptive innovation, as described by strategist Clayton Christensen. Working with Christensen and his colleagues at the consulting firm Innosight, API developed a counter‐offensive program customized to the issues and changes facing newspaper companies.
Findings
The paper finds that the Newspaper Next Game Plan is essentially a strategic framework designed to enable newspaper organizations to structure and prioritize their approach to both the core business and the disruptive innovation opportunities that will drive long‐term success and growth.
Practical implications
API's newspaper‐centric version of the innovation methodology focuses on researching the needs, that is, the “jobs to be done,” of discrete sets of non‐users of the core products.
Originality/value
The paper offers a helpful guide for any industry beset by disruptive innovation. For the newspaper industry there is a radical lesson: serving non‐readers will require newspapers to build audiences by fulfilling “jobs to be done” that go beyond the core function of reporting the news.
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