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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. Understanding Technological Disruptions Technological disruptions refer to unexpected shifts in technology that can disrupt industries, businesses, and life as we know it.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

It can be defined as a holistic view of a company's bundle of products and services that are of value to the customer (Osterwalder 2004). In essence, it unifies aspects such as, for example, the cost structure and the applied revenue mechanisms, and points to the elementary question of any firm, namely how to make money in the business.

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On the Origin of Companies

David Marks

In this post I will explain how the disruptibility curve, described in my previous blog posts, could be used for the same purpose. The disruptibility curve maps a company on two axes: The Natural Monopoly and the Customer responsiveness. If you read my previous posts , you can look away now (or rather skip to the next paragraph).

Company 40
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On the Origin of Companies

David Marks

In this post I will explain how the disruptibility curve, described in my previous blog posts, could be used for the same purpose. The disruptibility curve maps a company on two axes: The Natural Monopoly and the Customer responsiveness. If you read my previous posts , you can look away now (or rather skip to the next paragraph).

Company 40
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Think Your Company’s Pursuit of Innovation has Run its Course? Think Again…

Qmarkets

But it’s this mindset which must change in order for companies to maintain a competitive edge and fight disruption. This report from Sandroni & Squintani (2004) summarizes decades-worth of psychological research which confirms our innate predisposition towards overconfidence. Ancient Inspiration for Innovation.

Course 53
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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). In fact, most of us own at least 4 of the 6 examples of Innovations of the 20th Century that I outlined above. Now, how about these? They were also inventors, but of the 21st Century.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). In fact, most of us own at least 4 of the 6 examples of Innovations of the 20th Century that I outlined above. Now, how about these? They were also inventors, but of the 21st Century.