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Uncharted Waters Disrupting the Corporate Boardrooms

Paul Hobcraft

When you read a report that has within its executive summary this: “ In combination the boards stand unarmed to enter the battlefield of future business creation in a disrupted world ” it makes you want to read on. Is radical innovation a bulleted point at board meetings? It is struggling to adjust to all that is entering their world.

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Getting Board Buy-In for Your Innovation Project

IdeaScale

A 2015-2016 study by researchers at the Harvard Business School found that boards don’t prioritize innovation. Unless they deliberately carve out time during board meetings to talk about innovation, it is likely to be an afterthought. Download our disruptive innovation infographic and share it with your colleagues.

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Sustainable Innovation: Explanation and Examples

IdeaScale

Compared to innovation in general, sustainable innovation is more disruptive, fueled by a better rationale, and is more collaborative. Sustainable innovation is disruptive because it can result in better business models, improved processes, streamlined resource flows, reduced waste and cost, and the creation of new market segments. .

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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Idea to Value

However, my manager instructed me to continue showing predictions that it was perfectly possible that we would meet the targets, something I argued with him about often. Top managers thus made middle managers afraid of disappointing them—by intimating that they were not ambitious enough to meet top managers’ stretched goals.

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Make Digital Disruption Your Biggest Competitive Advantage

Daniel Burrus

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. Today, as more and more industries and businesses become disrupted, it is important to understand that digital disruption happens in waves.

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

Qmarkets

billion in 2015. They develop artificial intelligence and machine learning capacities, meet the need for stronger data security and fraud prevention, and comply with regulatory requirements. Department of Commerce, the two sectors employed more than 6 million people in 2015. The Key to Penetrative Disruption.

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Part 1: Accelerating the impact of Innovation Campaigns

Values Centered Innovation

Part 1 of 3: Innovation is the core driver to meet critical business needs. That’s quite evident from an examination of global CEO surveys over the past 2 years, and the essential role innovation plays to meet the top CEO challenges. Implement disruptive technologies. Promote sustainability with all stakeholders.