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A Deeper Understanding of Creativity at Work

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How to Bridge the Gap Between Present and Future

Gabriella: How do people bridge that gap between the present and the future in a way that others can't? So there's lots of examples over the last hundred years of innovators who are ahead of the market. But their distal ideas became very successful but they saw very little of the monetary success because they were too far ahead, she says. Deloitte proposed two different strategies to bridge the gap between the distal invention and market which is not yet ready for it. The first one is by accelerating market maturity, doing this through promotions, partnership and focus launches. Second strategy is what we call backwards innovation. This is where you have intermediary kind of stepping stone products between where

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