Resilience is the key to overcoming the innovator’s dilemma

Regardless of its size, an organization that is built for strategic agility has the greatest possibility of leveraging (rather than rejecting) disruptive innovations that.

At its core, therefore, the issue may be the relative flexibility of successful established firms versus entrant firms to change strategies and cost structures, not technologies.^[1]

By definition, resilient, highly innovative organizations are likely to

• have range across multiple domains and industries
• be younger/newer in the industry
• embrace complexity
• implement an organizational structure designed for innovation
• work as part of a decentralized network
• not be large
• not be optimally managed
• not be optimized for efficiency

#resilience #innovation

See also:

• New organizations with range beat narrowly-focused incumbents every time
• Innovator’s dilemma is about first-mover advantage