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The Risks of Sticking with Legacy Technology

Daniel Burrus

Legacy technology is like that old pair of jeans you wore as a teenager. Move that anecdote onto a larger stage and you have a fairly accurate picture of why many organizations hold on to legacy technology—tools that are long outdated: comfort. In a world of exponential change, legacy technology is trouble. Compliance penalties.

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Disruptive Energy.

100%Open

By any measure, that was a disruptive statement. The Kyoto Protocol followed in 1997, with the Paris Agreement in 2015 setting meaningful targets that might just be enough to achieve the required changes. According to the World Bank, Costa Rica used 1370 watts per capita in 2013. He said yes, we printed.

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When Disruption Becomes Destructive: How Can Financial Services Companies Close the Innovation Gap?

Qmarkets

caption id="attachment_40714" align="alignright" width="438"] The speed of change in the banking industry has CEOs more concerned than in any other industry. The combined valuation of the top 50 banks worldwide make up almost one-third of this number: a whopping $4.3 billion in 2015. Across the pond, the City A.M.

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The UBS Future of Finance Global Finals

100%Open

It’s been an intense and exciting second half to 2015 for the whole 100%Open team. Working very closely and collaboratively with UBS, we launched The UBS Future of Finance Challenge on 12th August 2015, an open competition for entrepreneurs and technology startups around the world.

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The Global Race to Innovate is on: Spigit’s Annual Growth up by 32%

Planview

Today, the Spigit team is happy to announce record business growth with a 32% increase in new customers in 2015 as well as significant expansion across major industry segments including: financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and energy. Like KBC, many companies are starting to take a proactive approach to innovation.

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The Global Race to Innovate is on: Spigit’s Annual Growth up by 32%

Planview

Today, the Spigit team is happy to announce record business growth with a 32% increase in new customers in 2015 as well as significant expansion across major industry segments including: financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and energy. Like KBC, many companies are starting to take a proactive approach to innovation.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 And in the 21 st century, the majority of public company shareholders are institutional investors (banks, insurance companies, pensions, hedge funds, REITs, investment advisors, endowments, and mutual funds), not individuals. (In billion of GE stock – about 1.5%