Disruptive Innovation and Strategic Leadership

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DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION
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DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION AND STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................2
2. Internal perspective................................................................................................................2
2.1 Human resources..............................................................................................................2
2.2 Organisational culture......................................................................................................2
2.3 Resource allocation..........................................................................................................3
2.4 Organisational structure....................................................................................................3
3. External perspective...............................................................................................................3
3.1 Commitments...................................................................................................................3
3.2 Regulations.......................................................................................................................4
4. Marketing perspective............................................................................................................4
5. Technology perspective.........................................................................................................5
6. Conclusion..............................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7
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DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION AND STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
1. Introduction
Disruption is the process that could be used by small companies with limited resources to
establish themselves in the competitive market. They go beyond the needs of the consumers,
which helps them to create better products in their businesses. Making better products with
the help of innovations would benefit the business in the future. Building a disruptive
innovation enable organisations to sell more products to their most profitable customers
(Coccia, 2018). The assignment would help to know the importance of disruptive innovation
strategy in creating a dynamic strategy for the company. In addition, the challenges and
opportunities in strategic leadership would be analysed with the help of this report.
2. Internal perspective
The internal perspective helps in examining the business model, which would implement the
disruptive innovation to tackle the organisational challenges. Some of the challenges are have
been stated below.
2.1 Human resources
One of the problems that the manager is facing in the Essendon Food Solutions (EFS) is the
inability to understand the power of disruption as they had been trained in conventional
business programmes (Christensen et al. 2015). The promotional trends in the company are
mainly due to the experience gained by the employees and due to which, most of the people
in the senior positions come from a Microbiology background (Carrillo et al. 2015). The bad
point is that the people who are appointed the human resource managers do not know how to
tackle the team and lacks in strategy management. It is seen that the people in the workforce
of the company might be possessing the right amount of knowledge, but they do not have the
requisite skills to apply them in real life. Although about 80% of the staff in the R&D
department may be the high performing graduates from leading universities, they are not able
to implement the knowledge in practical scenario (Reardon et al. 2019). It could change it by
appointing an additional team at the corporate level so that innovative ideas could be
implemented.
2.2 Organisational culture
Whenever a challenge arises in times of disruptive innovation, it is then that the
organisational culture should be able to control the resistance (Cacciolatti and Lee, 2016). As
the company gives more importance to the senior executives, the leadership is given to the
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