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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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Innovation is a team sport

Cris Beswick

Naresh Jain (2009) claims: “Team members need to learn how to help one another, help other team members realise their true potential, and create an environment that allows everyone to go beyond their limitations”. [4] It’s still necessary but needs a companion, and we believe that companion sits between incremental and disruptive innovation.

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

Mills-Scofield

Blue Lobster at the South Bristol Coop , 2004. To me, a blue lobster is a person who views and organizes the world differently, who rejects the status quo, who loves to try stuff, learn, fail and try again, who is interesting because they are interested and who has impact. What’s with blue lobsters? Not anymore.

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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.

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

Mills-Scofield

Blue Lobster at the South Bristol Coop , 2004. To me, a blue lobster is a person who views and organizes the world differently, who rejects the status quo, who loves to try stuff, learn, fail and try again, who is interesting because they are interested and who has impact. What’s with blue lobsters? Not anymore.

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Organizational Design: Clearing the Runway for Collaboration and Breakthrough Thinking

Innovation Excellence

Technology has allowed numerous industries to grow at a rapid pace and has streamlined countless business processes…but it still can’t learn, design, and discover the way people can. Ake et al, 2004; pg 266). Most industries in today’s world run on a balance of sophisticated computer systems and skilled people to use them.

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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

The need for people and organisations to innovate has always been there but what’s much harder to comprehend, and therefore navigate, is the rapid pace of change we’re experiencing, on a scale we’ve never seen before. Promoting change of any kind was seen as a threat to the established order. A new era of work and technological change.