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Are You Future-Proof? Preparing for Technological Disruptions

Phil McKinney

Technology is profoundly changing how we work and live, from automated manufacturing to artificial intelligence. As such, we need to be aware of how these changes will affect us so that we can prepare for them accordingly. By embracing the potential of technological change, organizations can benefit from greater success.

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Innovation adoption in the technology lifecycle for Energy Translation

Paul Hobcraft

The economics of powering the energy system with renewables has got to the point where there is real competitiveness. As we change our “norms” in energy solutions and our values and appreciation of the requirements to change, there is a constant search for growing compatibility.

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

Mills-Scofield

Blue Lobster at the South Bristol Coop , 2004. Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. 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? Blue Lobsters. Not anymore.

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Innovate or Die: Open Innovation and 4 Key Measures to Stay Alive

Innovation Walk

Everything is changing, how we interact, the way we do business and even the way we spend our free time. This constant and rapid state of change is creating new and big challenges… but even bigger opportunities. Moreover, experts explain that technological advancements are driving to “ furious rates of change”. in 2004 to 8.3%

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

Mills-Scofield

Blue Lobster at the South Bristol Coop , 2004. Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. 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? Blue Lobsters. Not anymore.

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The 5 Ways Chairman Lampert Destroyed Sears’ Value

Adam Hartung

Back in January, 2014 CNBC headlined “ Tracking the Slow Death of an Icon ” as it listed all the things that went wrong for Sears in 2013 – and they have not changed two years later. Whatever chance Sears and Kmart had to grow the chain against intense competition it was lost by the Chairman’s need to micro-manage.

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On the Origin of Companies

David Marks

They differ in their culture, openness to change and new ideas. The Natural monopoly axis measures the degree of which a company is shielded from competition. See more here ) But as the business environment changes, the solid position a company was holding could begin to wobble. And most importantly by strategy.

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