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We All Need To Learn The Change Lifecycle

Digital Tonto

When a transformational initiative fails, it's often said that it was because people don’t like change. Everywhere I go in the world, no matter what type of group I’m speaking to, people are enthusiastic about some kind of change. It’s other people’s ideas for change that they aren’t so crazy about. That’s not really true.

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Why Unlearning Is At Least As Important As Learning

Digital Tonto

I had some experience selling national radio time in New York and thought I could teach the Poles who, after 50 years of communism, hadn’t had much opportunity to learn how a modern ad market functioned. When I thought about it though, many of the things I had learned as immutable laws were merely conventions that had built up over time.

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The Travel & Hospitality Industry is Being Disrupted, Again.

Leapfrogging

Now big travel and hospitality companies are going after the next disruptive innovation themselves before getting blindsided yet again. It’s no wonder Plug and Play created a vertical focused on travel and hospitality. The “travel-tech” sector has attracted over $19B+ since 2008. Airbnb disrupted hotels.

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Adjusting to a changing world

Paul Hobcraft

The issue we must tackle today, is how we go about adapting to the changing world? One that will be able to take all the advantages of the changes all businesses are undergoing, how societies will be adjusting and responding. We are in a period of (great) change.

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Listening, Learning and Leading: Digital Transformation Expert Debra Aizikovitz

Planview

To learn more about what it’s like to be part of the Evolve Advisory Services team, we turn to Debra Aizikovitz , who serves as digital transformation practice lead. I talk with customers and learn about their organizations and what challenges they’re facing to become best in class. For 25 years, I traveled every week.

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Learning a new innovation language

Paul Hobcraft

We are learning to connect in completely different ways. We are learning how to interact with a connected system as products move into products and digital, connected and combined. So are you learning a new innovation language? As we gain understanding we are getting more fluid, we learn and adjust to constantly improve.

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Everything is changing faster- can we respond differently in our Innovation work?

Paul Hobcraft

Suddenly we are stopped from traveling; we are advised to work from home to keep us safe from this coronavirus and catching it. I was pondering some thoughts around the quest for growth, the demands for change, and the need to become nimble, agile, and more dynamic in what we do. We crowd out our days and never stop to reflect.

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