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The Travel & Hospitality Industry is Being Disrupted, Again.

Leapfrogging

Airbnb disrupted hotels. Now big travel and hospitality companies are going after the next disruptive innovation themselves before getting blindsided yet again. As part of a new series of articles I’m writing called Everything Transformed , I’m focusing on the widespread disruption of just about every industry on the planet.

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Continuous Improvement and Breakthrough Innovation: Why You Need Both

IdeaScale

The British cycling team used incremental improvements to go from also-rans to winning seven of ten gold medals in the 2008 Olympics. Yet even that breakthrough innovation was built upon decades of smaller innovations in telecommunications, internet technology, and computing technology. It doesn’t just work in business, either.

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When tough times are ahead, you should double down on innovation

Idea to Value

Downturns are prime territory for disruption. But, more importantly for us, economic downturns are always a great time for disruptive innovation. Disruptive innovation usually starts from the low-end of the of market , which means that these innovators are uniquely positioned for tough times. But who are these companies?

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The New Game Or Is It? Asset Orchestration

Paul Hobcraft

The lighter you are, the more likely you are to be more flexible and adaptive to respond to more disruptive challenges being faced by industries that are undergoing the shift to being more “digitally enabled” Alibaba is very much a good asset orchestrator. Again I think Alibaba is doing a really good job of that. In summary.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Competitive Advantage In all circumstances, leaders will and should have strategic priorities on top of their minds. Usually, you need innovation for that, which means that you either adapt to current challenges or lag behind the competition. In times of crisis, consumers cut on spendings deemed unnecessary like technology.

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PLAYING IT SAFE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING YOU CAN DO

Innovation 360 Group

Companies disappear all the time without a word, due to changing cultural values, changing technology, or changing audience demographics. When disruption came for the taxi industry, the music industry, the retail industry, and others, there were usually four flashing lights that just about anyone could see.

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

Wazoku

Advances in mechanisation, mass production and, more recently, technology have shaped where and how we work, as well as what we produce. A new era of work and technological change. New technology in the home made it easier for women to do paid work, relieving them of time-consuming housework.