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The Travel & Hospitality Industry is Being Disrupted, Again.

Leapfrogging

Each month I’m tapping into the industry expertise and experience of one of Plug and Play’s 15 industry verticals to highlight the disruptive trends, technologies and companies shaping the future. The “travel-tech” sector has attracted over $19B+ since 2008. The “travel-tech” sector has attracted over $19B+ since 2008.

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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. Why shouldn’t you just give up on innovation when times are tough?

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The Innovation Intensity needed in the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

We need to accelerate innovation and technology adoption. The IEA assesses the status of 46 critical energy technologies and sectors and offers some general advice on how to get “on track” with this SDS approach. No one is going to stop investment in proven, tested technology, processes.

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Preparing for recovery before it’s too late

Strategos

Budget reviews, efforts to increase efficiency and cutting costs are essential in addressing the immediate fallout from a crisis. Discontinuities are significant, fundamental changes that have the potential to change industry dynamics, redefine the rules of competition. Update the discontinuities. Will you be ready?

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When Pundits Say That Robots Will Take Our Jobs, Remember These 4 Things

Innovation Excellence

Yet the number of lawyers in the US has increased by 15% since 2008 and it’s not hard to see why. So training tellers to process transactions efficiently was a key competitive trait. What’s more, these aren’t considered competitive traits, but commodity services. Our paychecks are usually sent electronically.

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How To Lead Through Crisis

Innovation Excellence

That’s certainly how it felt to me in November, 2008, when I was leading a media company in Kyiv. Our goal was to do more than just survive, but to position ourselves to be more competitive in the future. Because the country was a major outsourcing center for web developers, demand for those with technical talent actually increased.

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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. It wasn’t the tech startups alone that brought them down. At the heart of it all was a lack of attention to how customers’ lives had changed into a faster, more tech-savvy world.