Adam Hartung

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I write about trends. Technology trends are exciting, because they can come and go fast – making big winners of some companies (Apple, Facebook, Tesla, Amazon) and big losers out of others (Blackberry, Motorola, Saab, Sears.) But unlike technology, one of the most important trends is also the most predictable trend.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 26, 2015

In 1983, I identified digital disruption as one of twenty technology-driven Hard Trends that would increasingly shape the future at an exponential rate, and at the same time drive economic value creation. ®2015 Burrus Research, Inc. What digital disruptions do you see that will transform industries? All Rights Reserved.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 25, 2016

There are a myriad of lists out there extolling the top trends and innovative products to watch for 2016. It’s all about “playing hard to get” with your customers, something pretty counterintuitive in today’s fiercely competitive world. Figuring out how to rise above the competitive noise can be mind-bending in itself.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 25, 2016

There are a myriad of lists out there extolling the top trends and innovative products to watch for 2016. It’s all about “playing hard to get” with your customers, something pretty counterintuitive in today’s fiercely competitive world. Figuring out how to rise above the competitive noise can be mind-bending in itself.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It can give you a real competitive advantage by translating what you learnt in applying analogies to solutions that solve your customer problems. Finally, we have to allow time to explore Micro, Macro and Mega Trends. There are so many trends to tap into and explore by having this questioning hat on. Turning “yes but”….into

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

According to Global Human Capital Trends 2015 pg 36, “Organizations that create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong leadership are outperforming their peers and will likely beat their competition in attracting top talent.”. Global Human Capital Trends.

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Daniel Burrus

MARCH 6, 2017

In my New York Times bestselling book, Flash Foresight , I shared a proven methodology I have developed and refined over the decades for separating Hard Trends, those future facts that will happen, from Soft Trends, those assumptions about the future that might happen. That trend has done anything but slow down.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 14, 2016

Tracking the trends on Management Tools. One of the consulting companies, Bain & Co has conducted the Bain’s Management Tools & Trends survey since 1993. The latest one for 2015 is here. Surprisingly globally, the trend toward using fewer tools continues, (which is in exact opposite to what I would have thought).

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

From our analysis of nearly 1000 hackathons conducted across 75 countries in the world during a two-year period from 2015 onward, we bring you this Global Hackathon Report. We discern a clear trend-hackathons are successfully battling talent scarcity, acquisition, and retention as well as fueling innovation across domains and functions.

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Norbert Bol

JUNE 7, 2015

Successful companies however view sustainability as one of the biggest trends that will shape the future and use sustainability as an innovation tool. Creating competitive advantage by institutionalizing corporate social innovation. Norbert Bol. Literature. Bekmezci, M. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences , 181 , 228-240.

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Open Innovation EU

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Design Competitions. Focus stage: Growth Published: 2015 more…. 5R Trend Model (Bosma). Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2015 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2015 more…. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2015 more…. Focus stage: Seed Published: 2012 more…. Crowdsourcing (Whitla). Deep Dive (Ideo).

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 21, 2022

As sustainability and other trends are pushing companies to reshape their core, innovation today is a matter of reinventing what you do, how you operate, and how you run the business. To stay competitive, companies started to embrace platforms and ecosystems as part of their strategy and innovate with others.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 23, 2015

2015 has so far been monumental for women. This isn’t just unjust, it threatens the future of business innovation, the economy, and global competitiveness. Business trends like virtual teams, global collaboration, open innovation, and partnerships and alliances all rely on fundamental “feminine” leadership competencies.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 23, 2015

2015 has so far been monumental for women. This isn’t just unjust, it threatens the future of business innovation, the economy, and global competitiveness. Business trends like virtual teams, global collaboration, open innovation, and partnerships and alliances all rely on fundamental “feminine” leadership competencies.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It can give you a real competitive advantage by translating what you learnt in applying analogies to solutions that solve your customer problems. Finally, we have to allow time to explore Micro, Macro and Mega Trends. There are so many trends to tap into and explore by having this questioning hat on. Turning “yes but”….into

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Adam Hartung

JUNE 30, 2015

Trend 1- Low minimum wages & “Wage gap” issues remain a big deal. The trend to a higher minimum wage will challenge profit growth – or maintenance – in these companies. Trend 2 – Employees often “see change coming” and become negatively vocal. The lists are dominated by retailers.

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Adam Hartung

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

2 – In March, 2010 AdAge ran a column about WalMart being “stuck in the middle” and effectively becoming the competitive “bulls-eye” of retailing. 6 – In January, 2015 we d iscovered traditional brick-and-mortar retail sales fell 1% from the previous year.

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ITONICS

APRIL 4, 2018

The way how new business models evolve depends to a large extent on how companies adapt their established value-added processes and structures to environmental changes and on how they face competition. C = Creativity: Your ability to harness creativity will create your competitive advantage in today’s extremely dynamic environment.

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Adam Hartung

JULY 27, 2016

The company had 7 straight months of revenue declines, and leadership was predicting the trend would continue. He also closed 700 stores in 2015 , and 500 in 2016. McDonald’s stock languished around $94/share from 8/2014 through 8/2015 – but then broke out to $112 in 2 months on investor hopes for a turnaround.

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Daniel Burrus

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Data analytics is the science of extracting patterns, trends, and actionable information from large sets of data. The Hard Trend of unstoppable digital disruption — disruption that will happen to you and your industry in wave after wave — has vastly increased the amount of available data — hence the term “big data.” This list goes on.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

After the lackluster earnings from Apple and Microsoft recently, it appears that Amazon is bucking the current trend by surging ahead of the competition and many technology giants. When leaders do take the time to think about the future, they quickly discover that there is no shortage of trends to review. What's their secret?

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Adam Hartung

DECEMBER 13, 2015

But in a series of fast actions during 2015, DuPont as it has been known is going away. They were willing to support management, but when that team could not produce the innovations to keep growing they were willing to accelerate cost cutting ($1B in 2015 alone) in order to prop up short-term stock valuation. Don’t be confused.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 1, 2016

In this report, they surveyed 614 global board professionals from a total of 50 countries during the period covered from November 2015 through to February 2016 and then published in February 2016. The respondents describe that competition and technology are among the four most important external challenges their companies are facing now.

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Eddielogic

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Bain & Company published their 2015 Management Tools and Trends survey this summer (conducted in 2014). Another finding from the Bain study supports this assumption: Asked for their view on current management trends, 75% of respondents agreed to the statement “Our ability to adopt to change is a significant competitive advantage”.

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Daniel Burrus

JULY 29, 2015

This soon to be global trend would come to be known as BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), and it caught IT departments by surprise as they scrambled to get this growing “problem” under control. Anticipatory Organizations™ don’t wait for problems to happen, they use Hard Trends to predict problems before they happen and pre-solve them.

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Daniel Burrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Knowing this, it’s evident that being agile is very good, but is not enough to jump ahead of the competition. In this scenario, disruption is your competitive advantage. We are familiar with the common expression in industries like music and fashion: Trends come back every 30 years. ©2015 Burrus Research, Inc.

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100%Open

MARCH 16, 2015

Who’d be a venture capitalist in 2015? In spite of the evergreen nature of BBC TV’s Dragon’s Den with its photogenic piles of cash it seems there are countervailing trends that are emerging in how start-ups and SMEs can access the funding they need to grow. Corporate Venturing. Open Options.

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 13, 2017

In fact, sales fell by 10 percent in the first few months of 2015. Meanwhile, the American Booksellers Association grew to 1,712 member stores in 2,227 locations in 2015, up from 1,410 in 1,660 locations five years earlier. In another blog entry, I discuss the value of collaboration as opposed to competition.

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Innovation Walk

JUNE 7, 2019

The winner of 2015’s European Travel Innovator Award intends to increase the number of direct bookings a hotel gets. Besides, hotels can view rates of direct booking conversions against page visitors, as well as ROI numbers and parity trends. What makes this app unique is its forecast data based on booking trends.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It’s a competitive imperative that will keep you ahead in the marketplace. Managers simply don’t have the time to keep up with customer trends. Photo credit: Atmosphere 2015. That means you, as a leader, must unlock the creative potential of your organization, no matter the industry. Conference calls. Employee reviews.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

This trend is even more pronounced among strong innovators, with those pursuing a centralized approach rising from 68 percent in 2013 to 71 percent in 2014. Accenture: 2015 US Innovation Survey. When executed correctly, these innovations deliver a step-change improvement in organizational performance and competitive advantage.

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

50 what-if questions to reimagine the future We have handpicked a selection of trends & shifts in technology to help you come up with more relevant business ideas. The manufacturing industry is becoming increasingly capable of creating small batches (or even single units) of personalized products at very competitive prices.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Oct 20, 2015 | Anthony Mills. After World War II, competition, especially global competition, entered markets, and with it, many more choices. Combining these insights with emerging market and technology trends, we could then ourselves define what "might be"⃜ something entirely new and different.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2020

What is needed is a new strategic framework that serves both the current, increasingly competitive, situation as well as providing a strategic path through an uncertain future. By 2015, they were growing fast with a leadership team recruited for their extensive experience in the food industry.

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Adam Hartung

MAY 15, 2016

All the trends were going against the company. Sears was destined to keep losing customers, and sales, unless it moved onto trends. He needed to rapidly adopt the trends. Mr. Bezos focused on trends, and what was needed to make The Washington Post grow. And nobody can hope to change a trend.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

0 2015 0 2016. It is an essential survival skill in a hyper-competitive world. Each client will see their InnovationIQ score generated anew every year by one of our consultants or one of our Licensed Practitioners and tracked for trend analysis. Innovation IQ. InnovationIQ Score.

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New Markets Advisors

AUGUST 20, 2018

And it’s the knowledge of when to focus on addition and when to focus on replacement that gives companies a competitive edge and a roadmap for growth. industry, company dynamics, competitive advantages, and so on?—?there Even before industries reach peak maturity, competitive threats may start to pop up. In nascent markets?

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