The Disruption Fallacy
Stop Breaking The Wrong Things And Achieve Meaningful Progress
Taal: Engels - ISBN: 9789465204383 - 168 pagina’s
€ 19,99
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Disruption is the business world’s favorite buzzword, but innovation veteran Costas Papaikonomou calls it a costly fallacy. In his provocative new book, The Disruption Fallacy, he argues that meaningful progress doesn’t come from smashing the system—it comes from working smarter with what’s already there. Aimed at business leaders and particularly manufacturers of everyday consumer goods, this is a wake-up call for an industry drowning in hype.
Papaikonomou, co-founder of Happen Group—a global innovation agency that delivered over $5 billion in revenue growth for clients before its 2019 sale to Accenture—draws on 30 years of hands-on experience and hundreds of successful product launches. From supermarket staples to industrial flops, he’s seen it all. His verdict? “Innovation is a tool, not a goal. Disruption is often just noise that distracts from real results.”
With sharp wit and battle-tested insights, The Disruption Fallacy dismantles the obsession with “move fast and break things.” Papaikonomou offers a better way: practical, low-risk innovation that leverages existing production assets.
Over Costas Papaikonomou
Costas Papaikonomou is one of the founders of Happen.com, one of the fastest growing creative innovation agencies of the 21st century. A career in innovation – studying, dreaming, creating, researching and realizing new products. It’s been an amazing journey, playing in the birth chambers of mass market multinationals. Nevertheless he’s quite grumpy.
Why are so many brilliant ideas culled before they’ve had a chance to shine in the real world?
Why are so many awful ideas pushed through the system and launched, only to fail miserably, ruining careers and bankrupting businesses?
Why are so many blatantly obvious market opportunities ignored and not fulfilled with the right products, helping people lead happier lives and bringing prosperity to the companies that could have introduced them?
This little book is my attempt at understanding why so many innovations fail, why that is often wholly unnecessary and what may help tilt the balance more favorably.