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Gwen Smith Ishmael, Sr. Vice President of Insights and Innovation at Decision Analyst in Arlington, TX, has led marketing and new product development activities in the CPG and technology industries since 1986. She also conceived and developed ground-breaking Web-based promotional vehicles, two of which are patent pending. Gwen holds an MBA in Marketing and is a featured speaker on insights and innovation around the world. Her writings have been featured in international text books, most recently in Managing 4 Ps of Marketing FMCG Sector, and Product Innovation: A Strategic Tool for Growth, by ICFAI Publications, 2006 and 2007, respectively.

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Renee Hopkins Callahan Renee Hopkins Callahan started IdeaFlow and serves as chief blog-wrangler. She is Director of Innovation Services at Decision Analyst in Arlington, Texas, is a former journalist who worked as an editor and reporter for The Dallas Morning News and the Nashville Tennessean, and was managing editor of D, the Dallas city magazine. She has a master's degree in rhetoric and has also taught college-level English and informal logic.
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January 20, 2004

The Innovator’s Solution On The Web

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(last updated 01/20/04)
Lots of discussion going on about the newly released Innovator’s Solution (“IS”), so here’s a guide to all things IS. I’ll update it regularly and link to it as I continue to read and post my thoughts on this book. If you see something that should be included, send it on to me.
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The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth



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Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor

Blog coverage

IdeaFlow:

Selling to Nonconsumers (IS, Chapter 4) (11/26/03)

The Limits of Predictability in Innovation (11/24/03)

In Market Segmentation, What Counts Is Needs (IS Chapter 3) (11/19/03)

It's All Relative: IS Chapter 2 (11/7/03)

Innovator's Solution: Not Much Of A Solution After All? (11/4/03)

Tea And Innovation -- On Chapter 1 of IS (10/27/03)

Chuck Frey’s Innovation Weblog:

How to select the righ executive to lead a disruptive new business opportunity, 12/09/03


Parallels between IS and the Accenture white paper, Redefining High Performance. (10/28/03)

Customer-Focused Innovation (10/09/03)

Disruptive Innovation: Reflections on IS (9/30/03)


Other blogs:

Innovator's Solution - Still A Dilemma, Mark Federman's What Is The Message? (11/4/03)

Frank Patrick’s Focused Performance (11/01/03)

The E-Learning Vendor’s Dilemma, Jay Cross’s Internet Time (10/29/03)

PVR Blog 10/19/03

Ross Mayfield on Dan Bricklin’s below-referenced post (10/19/03)

Dan Bricklin on IS and Disruptive Blogging (10/17/03)

Rajesh Jain's Emergic.org (10/15/03)

Doug Simpson's Unintended Consequences (9/28/03)

Jerry Lawson's E-Lawyer (9/27/03)

Book reviews/articles

Guru Puts His Theories Into Practice, Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ontario (12/06/03)

Out-of-the-Box, Out Of Style, Boston Globe(11/30/03)

The Master of Innovation, Newsweek (11/17/03)

Christensen, Inc., Newsweek (11/17/03)

Be The Disrupter, Not The Disrupted, San Jose Mercury-News (11/16/03)

The Innovator Disrupts Again, The Business Standard, India (11/11/03)

'The Innovator's Solution' Tries To Counter Utterly Depressing 'Dilemma' by Kevin Maney (USA Today 11/11/03)

'Innovate Or Die,' Repeats Noted Author by Brian Deagon (Investor's Business Daily 11/5/03)

The Down Side of Upmarket, Web Host Monthly (Nov. 2003)

The Industrialized Revolution by Polly LaBarre (Fast Company, Nov. 2003)

First The Dilemma, Now The Solution by Fred Andrews (New York Times 10/19/03; sub reqd – you can also see this free at http://www.innosight.com/)

Graveyard of the New Direction by Leslie Walker (Washington Post 10/16/03)

Old Questions, Fresh Answers (CIO.com 10/15/03)

Established Firms Need The Courage To Disrupt by Robert Weisman (Boston Globe 10/12/03)

Is the ‘Innovator’s Solution’ to Sustained Corporate Growth An Unnatural Act? by Jim Heskett (HBS Working Knowledge 10/06/03)

Innovate Or Die (BusinessWeek 10/06/03)

How Great Companies Stay Great by Brad Wieners (Business 2.0 Oct. 2003 – sub reqd)

Book excerpts

The Innovator's Solution: What Products Will Customers Want to Buy? (ZDNet, 12/01/03)

What Customers Really Want Is For You To Do Their Jobs (CIO Magazine, 11/15/03)

The Innovator's Solution: To become partners in innovation, CIOs must put resources into their companies' new growth businesses (Optimize Magazine Nov. 2003)

Handling New-Market Disruptions (C/Net’s News.com 10/14/03)

Creating A Killer Product (Forbes Online 10/13/03)

How To Pick Managers For Disruptive Growth (HBS Working Knowledge 10/13/03)

Other stuff

Articles on disruptive innovation by Clayton Christensen and his partners at Innosight

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