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Calculated Risks and the Missing Competency of an Anticipatory Mindset

Daniel Burrus

But looking back on businesses from days and decades ago, historically, some of the biggest corporate and consumer catastrophes have been because a leader or organization refused to embrace change, get in front of disruption, or take a calculated risk, for a plethora of reasons. Tie Rack’s Risk Aversion.

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Thought Leader and Influencer Interview with Tom Raftery, Technology Evangelist, Podcast Host, Thought Leader & Influencer

Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

Throughout my career, I have held various leadership roles, including serving as Global VP, Futurist, and Innovation Evangelist at SAP, where I led communications on future trends and innovations, and educated colleagues, customers, and partners in sectors such as Energy, Automotive, and Supply Chain.

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What’s the Secret to the Next-Big-Thing? Anticipation.

Daniel Burrus

That comes from understanding your customers’ present and future needs more thoroughly to leveraging the enormous impact of new technology and market disruption. Likewise, marketing and advertising also benefit. Increase Disruption. To Develop a Completely Different Product, Think Differently. Know Your Customers Better.

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Axel Springer & External Innovation. How to turn “Spray and Pray” into “Spray and Succeed”?

CREATORS

The “Mere Internet Midget” Becoming a Digital Media Giant In 2001, Axel Springer presented its first ever net loss to shareholders. All this is happening in an industry regarded as a “sinking ship” and highly exposed to disruption. Most of the startups that took part in the program operate in e-commerce and advertising.

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Adapt or die: lessons from 5 companies that failed to innovate

Idea Drop

Each CEO was so ignorant of history that they presented the same business plan over and over again, until Netflix was ready to take their market share with a bulletproof online offering. Lesson: Brush up on your company’s history, or risk repeating the same mistakes.

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IA Summit 09 - Day 1

Boxes and Arrows

Links to the presentations and “slidecasts&# :[link] will be updated continuously. Yet UX designers don’t always seek to understand the advertising business model so they can maximize revenue. Instead, they often treat advertising as “clutter&# — to be ignored at best and actively disliked at worst.

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Next-Generation Mobility Stratifies OEMs

Corporate Innovation

Later the same month GM’s management team held an investor day to present the roadmap of its autonomous vehicle program and detail the mobility services it intends to offer using such vehicles starting in 2019, building on its tests in San Francisco and Scottsdale, another suburb of Phoenix.

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