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Dealing with Darwin by Geoffrey A. Moore — WisdomDeck honest review
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Dealing with Darwin

by Geoffrey A. Moore

Moore's innovation taxonomy: fourteen types of innovation matched to market phase, and the need to extract resources from context to fund core. Dense and corporate; the core-versus-context idea is the takeaway.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Core differentiates; context does not.
  2. Match innovation type to market phase.
  3. Fund core by extracting from context.

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Classify your activities as core or context and move resources accordingly.

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Core versus context.

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