Innovation literature spends a great deal of time discussing value creation. That makes sense; innovation is fundamentally about creating new value: solving problems better, reducing friction, improving performance, lowering costs, enabling new capabilities, and creating entirely new markets. But there is another side of innovation that receives far less attention, despite being one of the primary reasons innovations fail. Innovation destroys value too. This reality underlies

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