Summary: How Breakthroughs Happen: Review and Analysis of Hargadon's Book
()
About this ebook
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.
Added-value of this summary:
• Save time
• Understand key concepts
• Expand your capacity for innovation
To learn more, read "How Breakthroughs Happen" which reveals the innovation secrets from some of the world's top companies and how you can have your own breakthrough.
Read more from Business News Publishing
Understanding Financial Statements (Review and Analysis of Straub's Book) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The 12 Week Year (Review and Analysis of Moran and Lennington's Book) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The 4-Hour Workweek (Review and Analysis of Ferriss' Book) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leaders Eat Last (Review and Analysis of Sinek's Book) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The One Page Business Plan (Review and Analysis of Horan's Book) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5DotCom Secrets (Review and Analysis of Brunson's Book) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fifth Discipline (Review and Analysis of Senge's Book) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGood Strategy Bad Strategy (Review and Analysis of Rumelt's Book) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5To Sell Is Human (Review and Analysis of Pink's Book) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School (Review and Analysis of McCormack's Book) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 80/20 Principle (Review and Analysis of Koch's Book) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Talent Is Overrated (Review and Analysis of Colvin's Book) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRocket Fuel (Review and Analysis of Wickman and Winter's Book) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Master the Art of Selling (Review and Analysis of Hopkins' Book) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Sandler Rules (Review and Analysis of Mattson's Book) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Mckinsey Mind (Review and Analysis of Rasiel and Friga's Book) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ultimate Sales Machine (Review and Analysis of Holmes' Book) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Execution (Review and Analysis of Bossidy and Charan's Book) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTraction (Review and Analysis of Weinberg and Mares' Book) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The HR Scorecard (Review and Analysis of Becker, Huselid and Ulrich's Book) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Multipliers (Review and Analysis of Wiseman and McKeown's Book) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe CashFlow Quadrant (Review and Analysis of Kiyosaki and Lechter's Book) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStart Late, Finish Rich (Review and Analysis of Bach's Book) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Switch (Review and Analysis of the Heath Brothers' Book) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The One Thing (Review and Analysis of Keller and Papasan's Book) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ready, Fire, Aim (Review and Analysis of Masterson's Book) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Built to Sell (Review and Analysis of Warrilow's Book) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Negotiation Genius (Review and Analysis of Malhotra and Bazerman's Book) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Millionaire Next Door (Review and Analysis of Stanley and Danko's Book) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Speed of Trust (Review and Analysis of Covey's Book) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to Summary
Related ebooks
Design in Object Technology 2: The Annotated Class of 1994 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow Executives Fail: 26 Surefire Recipes for Failing as an Executive Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNetwork Thinking: Beyond Brockhaus Thinking Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCommon Purpose: How Great Leaders Get Organizations to Achieve the Extraordinary Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Norm Brodsky & Bo Burlingham's Street Smarts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsProduct description Second Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEssential Leadership Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBuilding the In-Company Change Muscle: Intrapreneurship, Innovation, Transformation & Strategy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInvest in Your Attitude: Creating Upswings During Downturns Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBusiness ecosystem Third Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of C. Todd Lombardo, Bruce McCarthy, Evan Ryan & Michael Connors's Product Roadmaps Relaunched Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPlaying to Win Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSerious Creativity (Review and Analysis of de Bono's Book) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLean Customer Development (Review and Analysis of Alvarez's Book) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Business Leaders Essential Guide to Innovation: How to generate ground-breaking ideas and bring them to market Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBusiness at the Speed of Now: Fire Up Your People, Thrill Your Customers, and Crush Your Competitors Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Companies, Snakes & Ladders: Success in the Arab Corporate Jungle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDirect To Consumer Playbook A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Art of Startups: How to Beat Larger Companies Using Machiavelli’s War Strategies Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Sentient Enterprise: The Evolution of Business Decision Making Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Moonshot Effect: Disrupting Business as Usual Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPurpose Driven People: Creating business agility and sustainable growth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInternal Tech Conferences: Accelerate Multi-team Learning Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCEO Secrets: Advice, insights and stories from the popular BBC video series Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCapturing New Markets: How Smart Companies Create Opportunities Others Don’t Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Direct To Consumer A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsExit Path: How to Win the Startup End Game Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBook Review: The Lean Startup by Eric Ries: Creating growth through innovation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Small Business & Entrepreneurs For You
Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ultimate Side Hustle Book: 450 Moneymaking Ideas for the Gig Economy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Overcoming Impossible: Learn to Lead, Build a Team, and Catapult Your Business to Success Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Company Rules: Or Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the CIA Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Robert's Rules of Order: The Original Manual for Assembly Rules, Business Etiquette, and Conduct Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Everything Nonprofit Toolkit: The all-in-one resource for establishing a nonprofit that will grow, thrive, and succeed Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStarting a Business All-In-One For Dummies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Notary Business Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Grow Your Small Business: A 6-Step Plan to Help Your Business Take Off Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of Timothy Ferriss' book: The 4-Hour Workweek: More time, more money, more life: Summary Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Side Hustle: How to Turn Your Spare Time into $1000 a Month or More Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Whole Body Entrepreneur: A Physical and Emotional Self-Care Bootcamp Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Without a Doubt: How to Go from Underrated to Unbeatable Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Small Business For Dummies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The LLC and Corporation Start-Up Guide: Your Complete Guide to Launching the Right Business Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nine-Figure Mindset: How to Go from Zero to Over $100 Million in Net Worth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What Your CPA Isn't Telling You: Life-Changing Tax Strategies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/548 Days to the Work and Life You Love: Find It—or Create It Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Reviews for Summary
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Summary - BusinessNews Publishing
Book Presentation
How Breakthroughs Happen by Andrew Hargadon
Book Abstract
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.
Important Note About This Ebook
This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise