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Pactuco is a French plastics moldings manufacturer. This chapter (from a book pre-release) shows how insurgent Chinese manufacturers have begun to disrupt its core market, forcing it to consider new competitive positions. Pete Thomond helps Pactuco leaders use the Portfolio Management tool to identify a disruptive response.
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Ron Enoch, Business Manager: Defense, Cosalt
International Limited.
'Again
can I reiterate my compliments regarding the content and presentation
of your findings with regard to our business..'
Winston Phillips, Managing Director, Cosalt
International Limited.
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‘I
was impressed by the efficacy of the system on the real problem.
John was fired off on totally radical lines..... I am thinking
about using Altshuller’s table as a kick-off for my
next brainstorm, just to see the reaction of the team and
whether it stimulates a better result (we have a core brainstorm
team that are becoming "set in their ways!). I enjoyed
the course.....’
Chris Treise MCMI, Constraints Engineer,
Project Supply Co-ordination, Cooper-Standard Automotive Limited.
'Thanks
for your seminar on disruptive innovation… our participants
rated it one of the best in the whole 12 month course –
thought-provoking and highly applicable… let’s
get some dates so you can deliver it again.'
Gill Targett-Adams, Director of the
GENUS Business Leader Development Programme, Exemplas.
'The Insight Centre course approach was imaginative and
delivered in such a way as to build on the skills we already
had rather than to dismiss what had gone before. It gave us
a new perspective on ideas and technical problem solving.
We are now looking forward to learning about and trying out
TRIZ related to business and management issues, as our confidence
grows through the support we have had from the Insight Centre.'
John Tregaskes, Technical Services
Manager, Business Link Devon & Cornwall.
'Dr. Thomond is an enthusiastic and lively speaker who provided our LSE
summer school course with an engaging presentation on 'Disruptive
Innovations'. By combining both a theoretical background and actual
company examples, Dr. Thomond illustrated the complexities as well as
rewards disruptive innovations have for existing companies.'
Dr. Ruta Aidis,
Lecturer, Entrepreneurship and Management Summer School Course, London
School of Economics
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