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Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business
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Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business

by Luke Williams
December 2010
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 50m
English
Pearson
Content preview from Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business

Chapter 2: Discovering a Disruptive Opportunity: Explore the Least Obvious

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Being insightful isn’t a question of talent; it’s a question of awareness.

“The most important advances are the least predictable ones.”

—Sir Francis Bacon1

People often say, “Apple doesn’t do consumer research.” This usually precedes an argument against the need for market research of any kind. But, the designers at Apple do conduct research—it’s just not the traditional kind you read about in consumer behavior textbooks. It’s informal, impromptu, and driven by acute observations of the context in which their products are used. Being insightful isn’t a question of talent; ...

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