The Innovative Power of Criticism

The business world is awash in ideas for new products, services, and business models. Thanks to powerful ideation approaches such as design thinking and crowdsourcing, it has become incredibly easy and relatively inexpensive for companies to obtain a vast number of novel concepts, from both insiders and outsiders such as customers, designers, and scientists. Yet most organizations still struggle to identify and capture big opportunities.

Why is this the case? Clayton Christensen, of Disruptive Innovation fame and W. Chan Kim and.....