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Are You Future-Proof? Preparing for Technological Disruptions

Phil McKinney

We live in unprecedented technological advances, and with these advances come disruptions that can significantly impact our lives and businesses. Technology is profoundly changing how we work and live, from automated manufacturing to artificial intelligence. The Impact of Not Preparing for Disruptions.

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How Networks Power Transformation

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In February 2004, Viacom announced that it would spin off Blockbuster Video into its own independent company, which gave its CEO, John Antioco, the opportunity to begin addressing the disruptive threat emanating from Netflix head on.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

It can be defined as a holistic view of a company's bundle of products and services that are of value to the customer (Osterwalder 2004). A business model innovation is defined as the conscious change of at least two dimensions of the introduced “Magic Triangle”. 2008), or, more simply, the value proposition (Teece 2010).

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Innovation is a team sport

Cris Beswick

The middle isn’t frozen; it’s just not enabled Plenty of empirical evidence points to the conclusion that top-down or bottom-up approaches to change are false narratives. Disrupt or die thinking doesn’t help The typical approach to defining different levels of innovation tends to polarise things for most employees. ISBN 9780470083536.

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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills-Scofield

Blue Lobster at the South Bristol Coop , 2004. When you get enough of them together, you create a blue lobster organization – one that creates positive disruption. You need blue lobsters to make an organization (more) innovative and change a culture … and maybe even create blue oceans ! “ What’s with blue lobsters?

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3 Vital Idea Crowdsourcing Best Practices from the 2021 Suez Canal Obstruction

Qmarkets

In 2017 it was blocked for a few hours by the OOCL Japan, in 2006 it was blocked by the Okal King Dor for 8 hours, and before that in 2004 the Tropic Brilliance became lodged for 3 whole days. Crowdsourcing Innovation: Changing the world one idea at a time a Ted Talk by Rob Wilmot 3.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

To my opinion, Mintzberg’s work was a refreshing change to the world of organization design that until then has been largely influenced by Taylor’s Scientific Management Approach and Henry Ford’s efficiency-based adaptation of that. Let me show you how the focus of organization design has changed over the years: Scholar.