How to Develop Disruptive Innovation Skills?

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How to Develop Disruptive Innovation Skills?

I believe disruptive innovation skills can be mostly taught.
Beyond the associative skills which is cognitive, the other behavioral skills required to be a true innovator are discovery skills - questioning, observing, networking and experimenting.
We need to teach our students as well as people in industry to challenge the status quo and use these behavioral skills to do so. I want to connect with true innovators and create a mentoring program to grow disruptive innovators and improve the skills of people who are already innovative.

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		2 Mike Allen Strategy Consultant, United Kingdom
	Everyone Can Lead Change if Given Sufficient Freedom Management experts at Wharton and McKinsey say that leadership can be found and must be practiced by employees at all levels of an organization. That is the only way in which an enterprise can get the most from managers and employees alike, achieve its strategic goals, fulfill the personal career aspirations of its people, and lay the groundwork for identifying and developing future leaders, including those who may eventually serve at the highest levels. A payroll clerk who recommends a way to streamline the process of cutting a check is demonstrating leadership -- given the parameters of his or her place in an organization -- in the same way as a CEO who is launching an initiative to transform a corporation. So everybody can lead at every level; there are no excuses.

		1 Nai Robi Germany
	Culture of an Organisation is Key Disruptive Innovation skills do not need to be taught, we all carry them inside of us. We only lack practice. What we need is a culture that encourages free expression and that values any idea without prejudice. A culture that welcomes challenges to the status quo and that is also not averse to abandoning what has been done so far, to start and try new things.

		2 Rick Mueller Professor, United States
	Yes, and No David Brooks' desire to form a mentoring coalition for Disruptors would be good if only there were such mentors that have both done the deed and are willing to share what they know. Since there are few if any cases of Disruptive Innovation repeated within firms, that leaves only the few successful Disruptors that are engaged in startups and with Disruption taking the better part of a lifetime to accomplish, that's going to be a difficult position to fill. For those who believe that McKinsey and/or Wharton might actually know something about Disruptive Innovation, let's discuss how many Disruptive Innovations have come from either of these organizations and then decide what we think they actually know about it. Nai Robi, you may be the closest with respect to the current state of the art - and it IS still art at this point, but I'd also keep in mind that just like there are many ways to structure a business plan (most of which fail), there are also many different cultures vying to be brightest and best with respect to Disruptive Innovation. Many are called; very few are chosen. I would also ask what happened to Apple, which really should have been as culturally adept at Disruptive Innovation as any organization could be. (Yes, that would be the same Apple that hasn't done anything Disruptive since the passing of Steve Jobs. While culture may be necessary, it's clearly not sufficient. We're still in the earliest stages of understanding the business of conventional business itself, much less the outliers through which quantum changes are made to what we've come to think of as standard protocols. It's good to wonder how we might systematize the concepts and the execution thereof, and it's great to run experiments in that vein. But it's far to early for anyone to say that they know anything other than what their limited exposure and experience have provided. Let's try not to get ahead of ourselves by thinking we actually know something before we actually do.

		4 Jaap de Jonge Editor, Netherlands
	How to Develop Disruptive Innovation Skills? @Rick Mueller: Thank you for sharing your excellent points, top. I have one more tip for people who'd like to learn more on how you can develop disruptive innovation skills (or at least strategic innovation skills), both at an individual level, team level, leadership level and at organization (cultural) level and that is: buy the excellent book "Trillion Dollar Coach: by Schmidt, Rosenberg and Eagle of Google. See my review.