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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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Is Disruption the New Normal?

Moves the Needle

Make no mistake, the pandemic disrupted business. The world has endured 3 massive economic disruptions in the first 2 decades of the 21st century, including the dotcom bust and 9/11, the Great Recession of 2008, and the current pandemic-caused economic devastation. Is disruption itself the new normal?

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Why ‘system transformation’ is likely a pipe dream

Christensen Institute

Ever since I wrote Disrupting Class in 2008, I’ve been publicly in favor of transforming education, not merely reforming it (although I do work in both spheres). These companies built their products with vacuum-tube technology and sold them through appliance retailers. In other words, a system disrupted a system.

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

The BMI Lab Blog

2008), or, more simply, the value proposition (Teece 2010). The degree of innovation When differentiating by innovation object, a basic distinction is made between product-, process-, service-, technological-and business model innovation (Edwards-Schachter, 2018). The object of innovation 2.

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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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