Summary: How Breakthroughs Happen: Review and Analysis of Hargadon's Book
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This complete summary of the ideas from Andrew Hargadon's book "How Breakthroughs Happen" explains how very few business innovations come from a 'lightbulb moment'. In reality, these breakthroughs are the result of 'technology brokering', where the ideas from one industry are implemented into another. In his book, the author explains exactly how this brokering can be done and just how achievable it is. By reading this summary and applying the advice, you will discover how you can make improvements for the future by learning from the past.
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How Breakthroughs Happen by Andrew Hargadon
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MAIN IDEA
The key to creating the breakthrough products of the future is to do an even better and more creative job of exploiting what has already worked in the past – both in your own industry and in other unrelated industries.
In other words, very few (if any) business breakthroughs come in a eureka moment
– where an individual has a flash of brilliance which leads to a new and revolutionary product. Instead, the vast majority of worthwhile and valuable breakthroughs come as a result of technology brokering
– where the ideas and concepts which have worked in one industry are transplanted into another entirely different industry. Thus, to succeed in the future, do a better job of harnessing the past.
The technology brokering concept
The notion of the lone genius laboring away in the basement laboratory to invent a future is, by now, one we should all be safely free of. Innovative firms succeed not by breaking free from the constraints of the past but instead by harnessing the past in powerful new ways. The result is an innovation process that thrives by making smaller bets, by building the future from what’s already at hand.
– Andrew Hargadon
About the Author
ANDREW HARGADON is assistant professor of technology management at the University of California, Davis. He specializes in studying the management of technology and innovation. Dr. Hargadon has previously worked as an engineer and designer at IDEO and Apple Computer and as a consultant to Hewlett-Packard, Nike and SabreLabs. He is a graduate of Stanford University.
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