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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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We All Need To Learn The Change Lifecycle

Digital Tonto

There are natural laws that govern change and these laws can be learned and applied by anyone. But change has a lifecycle that we can learn to manage and exploit. The road is long and, to travel it effectively, you need to learn to recognize and anticipate the various twists and turns. No defeat or victory is final.

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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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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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Innovation Walkabouts we all need for learning and testing ourselves

Paul Hobcraft

In our investigations, we need to watch out for all the signs (not necessarily signposts) along the way, those signals, patterns and emerging trends as we both search the horizon but equally in fully appreciating what is all around us, as we travel building our understanding on that journey. Walkabouts to give you personal time and space.

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Choosing your direction of travel

Paul Hobcraft

In diverse global organizations unlocking the knowledge within such a pool of highly qualified talent remains elusive, yet it clearly should not in having a more open-minded culture of enquiry and learning. How do we learn from all this connecting up and exchanging to spot new and exciting new business models?