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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. This is a more than timely report in my view. It is struggling to adjust to all that is entering their world.

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Report Highlights Increased Open Innovation Activity

IdeaConnection

That’s one of the conclusions of the 2016 State of Innovation Report: Disruptive, Game-Changing Innovation by the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters. 2015 was a Big Year for Innovation. And it reports that it is in rude health, claiming that 2015 was one of the most active years in history.

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Teacher shortages bring to mind the saying ‘necessity is the mother of invention’

Christensen Institute

As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. In some ways, this use of online learning could be a classic case of a disruptive innovation, which begins as a primitive innovation. She cited A.P. Calculus and Latin as examples.

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

Idea to Value

We had a target to hit, and I was responsible for producing the reporting for the rest of the leadership team (of which he was one), but as time went on it became clearer and clearer that it would be impossible to hit the target, which would have an impact on the overall team budget. Volkswagen.

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Continuing the Energy Transition Journey

Paul Hobcraft

Everywhere you turn, you stumble across reports on one aspect or another of the energy transformation we are undertaking. These progress report cards come out regularly, but the one I wanted to work through was from the OECD and IEA ones. Clean hydrogen has been enjoying unprecedented political and business momentum. degree mark.

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Solar disruption

Innovation 360 Group

All of them believed to be solved by disruptive innovation. In China today, around 70 percent of electricity generation is via coal, but solar targets there are likely to continue increasing as the country faces its pollution problems, Deutsche Bank said in a note Feb 2015. How will the oil industry respond to that disruption?

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

Qmarkets

billion in 2015. We now live in an era where 53% of millennials don’t think their current bank offers anything special or different than other banks, according to the ground-breaking Millennial Disruption Index. Department of Commerce, the two sectors employed more than 6 million people in 2015. Across the pond, the City A.M.