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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Making strategy behind closed doors is a prescription for failure when disruptions are coming from all directions. Strategy is often made by elite teams and can thus be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces. Formulating and executing a sound organizational strategy is complex.

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Disrupting Markets – Why PayPal Is Worth More Than Ebay

Adam Hartung

in 2002 , in order to grease the wheels for faster ecommerce growth. eBay has run into stiff competition, as CraigsList has grown to take over the “garage sale” and small local business ecommerce. But it almost never happens – because the market shift is making their offering obsolete. About $8B/year each.

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Digital transformation examples

Board of Innovation

2 Reasons: to accelerate the market and to make their technology the standard. Sector: Manufacturing Company: Philips Learn more: Source Pay-per-use Leasing Energy savings The fast pace of projection disruptions resulted in cinemas to either work with outdated technology or spend more than they earn.

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What do you need to innovate?

David Marks

Technology leadership forges a competitive advantage. When Amazon Web Services (AWS) was introduced back in 2002, Amazon was a fledgling web retailer mainly known for selling books cheaply. Being attuned to the market, Amazon had the rare insight to respond to the growing need in flexible computing memory and power. (At

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What do you need to innovate?

David Marks

Technology leadership forges a competitive advantage. When Amazon Web Services (AWS) was introduced back in 2002, Amazon was a fledgling web retailer mainly known for selling books cheaply. Being attuned to the market, Amazon had the rare insight to respond to the growing need in flexible computing memory and power. (At

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

Wazoku

Driven by advancing technologies, accelerating connectivity, and changing attitudes towards employment, organisations are operating in a dynamic environment – one where fast-growing start-ups are disrupting traditional business models and AI is replacing human labour. However, unskilled workers did not become organised until the late 1880s.

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4 Companies Leading the Way in Customer Experience

Planview

To thrive in this era of rapid disruption, other organizations also need to invest and focus on the customer journey. As Ted Rubin pointed out on episode #11 of the Future Squared podcast , the marketing focus needs to be on building relationships and metrics that expand beyond ROI to include ROR: Return on Relationship.

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