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Implement Anticipatory Solutions Instead of Reactive Responses

Daniel Burrus

In years past, many businesses have succeeded with an agile, reactive approach to business where they respond to climate, competition, and social circumstances in an “after the fact” way. This allows you to be a pioneer in a new technological evolution!

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Agile Strategy – 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Disruptive Innovation

BrainZooming

Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. It employs technology, focused creative teams, new manufacturing processes, and communications to remove time and waste when creating post-sporting event apparel featuring the winners and exciting story lines. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts. Developing an Agile Strategy.

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Caught in the Headlights of Disruptive Innovation.

Paul Hobcraft

This past weekend I had an extended period of re-reading about the effects of disruption that seems to be occurring across all points of business, our politics, our governments, it seems across our lives. All good plans sometime get disrupted. So I had some time on my hands so I decided to go back over the whole area of disruption to get a broader understanding and how this is driving so much within our innovation activity at present. Moritz reviewing disruptive innovation.

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Innovating in the midst of chaos and disruption

Jeffrey Phillips

Gamestop is up, and you are down In a time when everything is experiencing change, when disorder and disruption seems constant and profound, when people are storming the Capitol after an election, and the threat of COVID hovers over all of us, hunkering down and waiting for the storm to pass would seem to be the sensible solution. When we create information bubbles and people are fed stories that favor one viewpoint or another, with little common ground, strange things can happen.

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9 Patterns of Disruption: The new cooking recipe for business disruption

Idea to Value

A light bulb went on for me as I was reading a series of reports from Deloitte University Press on disruption. I felt this nine patterns of disruption has the same huge potential to frame and dialogue around the potential within disruption. A new framing of connecting disruptive innovation. They have defined the nine patterns of disruption as shown in the graphic below. The nine patterns of disruption (according to Deloitte).

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What This Video Of A Drone Fishing For Tuna Can Teach You About Disruption

Faisal Hoque

Here’s what an agile mind-set’s made of. Want to know what disruption looks like? AGILITY: IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD. Thriving means being able to identify, understand, and respond toreal-time to change and disruption. HOW TO PRACTICE AGILITY.

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What This Video Of A Drone Fishing For Tuna Can Teach You About Disruption

Faisal Hoque

Here’s what an agile mind-set’s made of. Want to know what disruption looks like? AGILITY: IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD. Thriving means being able to identify, understand, and respond toreal-time to change and disruption. HOW TO PRACTICE AGILITY.

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Strategic Agility – 3 keys to getting clear in ambiguity

The Human Factor

Whether the disruption comes from a pandemic, the introduction of a new technology, a new competitor that nobody saw coming, or drastic changes in economic policy and trade agreements, the companies that go to the head of the class are usually those that respond the quickest.

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22 Ice Breaker Questions on Disruptive Innovation and Uncertainty

BrainZooming

22 Ice Breaker Questions on Disruptive Innovation and Uncertainty. We helped plan a full day event focused on disruptive innovation. That triggered creating an entirely new set of ice breaker questions linked to disruption or uncertainty in some way. What’s the most exciting thing in your view as you look ahead to all the technological changes promised for the years ahead? Speaking of disruptive brands, what is your best Uber experience?

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Why Financial Organizations Must Fight Digital Disruption with Digital Disruption

Qmarkets

The term ‘Digital Disruption’ describes the situation where an existing industry is being altered by emerging digital technologies. These new technologies lead to innovations, often creating new markets and value markets that can impact the established leaders in the industry. Financial organizations of all shapes and sizes are being disrupted by small, agile, innovative and technology-oriented companies which offer convenient and efficient services.

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How to be More Agile as Competitive Advantages Fade

New Markets Advisors

And new entrants have been finding scrappy ways to ensure that they have sufficient funds, information, and talent to compete with incumbents. It’s how to build agility into your organization such that you can adapt as the strength of those advantages diminishes. To help your organization become more agile, I offer four pieces of advice, each of which ties to an essential element of agility. While we often prioritize the dynamic elements of agility?—?the

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How Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) may replace the traditional Chief Information Officer (CIO)

hackerearth

The 2018 Gartner CIO Agenda Survey demonstrates that technological innovation and digitalization are changing the way CIOs work. According to Andy Rowsell-Jones, VP at Gartner, “The CIO’s role must grow and develop as digital business spreads, and disruptive technologies, including intelligent machines and advanced analytics, reach the masses. Technological advances necessitate CINO roles. In fact, the entire C-suite considers technology to be the game changer today.

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Strategic Agility –The Next Big Thing is Here

The Human Factor

Whether the disruption comes from the introduction of a new technology, a new competitor that nobody saw coming, or drastic changes in economic policy and trade agreements, the companies that go to the head of the class are usually those that respond the quickest. I call this strategic agility. Strategic agility is the ability to quickly and appropriately respond to or drive change while maintaining flexibility and focus. agility goals Holly G.

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Leading In A World of Disruption

Daniel Burrus

In today’s world of technology-driven transformation, leaders need to embrace a new leadership principle if they want their organization to be relevant today and in the future. In recent years, leaders have added agility — being able to change quickly based on external circumstances — as an organizational competency. But digital disruption from the outside-in has been coming at an ever-increasing speed, and it’s only getting faster.

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Future-Proofing Financial Market Innovation – Fighting Digital Disruption with Digital Disruption

Qmarkets

The term ‘Digital Disruption’ describes the situation where an existing industry is being altered by emerging digital technologies. These new technologies lead to innovations, often creating new markets and value markets that can impact the established leaders in the industry. Financial organizations of all shapes and sizes are being disrupted by small, agile, innovative and technology-oriented companies which offer convenient and efficient services.

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Three Examples of how Edge Computing can Give you an Edge

Daniel Burrus

Nearly all of us thought the Internet was the most revolutionary breakthrough in the storage and transfer of information in the early nineties. Let’s think about these two concepts in relation to my Anticipatory mindset versus an agile one.

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Why Financial Organizations Must Fight Digital Disruption with Digital Disruption

Qmarkets

The term ‘Digital Disruption’ describes the situation where an existing industry is being altered by emerging digital technologies. These new technologies lead to innovations, often creating new markets and value markets that can impact the established leaders in the industry. Financial organizations of all shapes and sizes are being disrupted by small, agile, innovative and technology-oriented companies which offer convenient and efficient services.

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Shifting our thinking within the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

It was nicely put by Joe Kaeser, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens AG writing an article for the WEF , where he remarked “ The Fourth Industrial Revolution is not just about technology or business. This data understanding combined with computing power and analytics can allow for lower cost genome sequencing technology. The third fused electronics and information technology to automate production and allow us to enter a digital age.

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Digital Disruption and How Businesses Can Best Leverage It

Qmarkets

At some point, digital disruption comes for every organization. While some companies might be flexible and lucky enough to ride a wave of disruption and survive , if you are able to predict and prepare for it accordingly you might be able to use it to thrive. Unless well planned and executed, digital disruption – the inevitable deluge of new tools and processes that is part and parcel of refining digital business processes – can be akin to managing a natural disaster.

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Why we should focus on Innovation Governance

Paul Hobcraft

The central place that alerts and informs a focal point and required passing through point for everything around innovation. It encourages agility, adapting, being fluid and dynamic in the way to undergo innovation.

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Digital Disruption and How Businesses Can Best Leverage It

Qmarkets

At some point, digital disruption comes for every organization. While some companies might be flexible and lucky enough to ride a wave of disruption and survive , if you are able to predict and prepare for it accordingly you might be able to use it to thrive. Unless well planned and executed, digital disruption – the inevitable deluge of new tools and processes that is part and parcel of refining digital business processes – can be akin to managing a natural disaster.

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HOW ENTREPRENEURS CAN UTILISE SOFTWARE

ImagineNation

From self-driving cars to video conferencing apps, SaaS (software-as-service) technology to intuitive chatbots and programs that automatically calculate GST and other compliance requirements in the blink of an eye, innovation has fundamentally changed the way we live and work.

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QUANTUM PHYSICS, CREATIVITY, INNOVATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS

ImagineNation

That doesn’t mean we can’t use quantum physics to do amazing things you can find some really appealing physics in mundane technology indicative of innovation but those things stay well within the boundaries of the laws of thermodynamics and just basic common sense.

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5 Innovation Trends of 2018 that will Disrupt the Corporate Landscape in 2019

Qmarkets

Companies across multiple sectors have launched collaborative efforts to gather disruptive new ideas, harness new technologies, and achieve greater sustainability. Although careful and precise data-gathering has been a major trend, so have bold steps in the technological and environmental fronts. Corporations are increasingly looking to pioneering new technologies to increase employee engagement and expand their market base.

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Upskilling to drive growth in the new economy

ImagineNation

As advanced technologies automate our world in so many ways, the demand for both “digital” and “human” factors is driving growth in the professions of the future. Crucial social, emotional and technological skills.

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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

Still, its need is to be far more fluid, adaptive and agile in what it processes and manages, especially in today’s challenging world, adapting to today’s challenges and working towards the future. We need both informal mechanisms and formal ones.

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Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption

Innovation in Practice

A SIMPLE FORMULA AND SET OF TOOLS FOR FACING AND EMBRACING DISRUPTION AND RADICAL CHANGE. Technology, globalization, economic shifts, geopolitical shocks, and, yes, management thought leaders over the past 30 years have set in motion a continuous onslaught of radical, discontinuous change in the global business environment that will not abate anytime soon. For more information, please visit www.sweetmancragun.com and connect with the authors on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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The Rise of Product Management

Moves the Needle

It’s interesting to reflect that in 1997, the Agile Manifesto had not yet been published. I had never heard of Agile. Agile and Human-Centered Design The Agile Manifesto of 2001 was a game-changer in product development. Blog post Disruption Proof

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You Are Being Digitally Disrupted – Do Something About It

The Inovo Group

An AI could be “sitting” on your board of directors, at the right-hand of your CEO, informing and guiding major decisions. This is the AI-assisted world that is the result of the internet-of-things, blockchain, advanced analytics, machine learning, natural language processing or other digital technologies being implemented today. What does a business do now in the face of rapidly advancing technologies for which the company does not have existing, well-developed competencies?

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4 Radically Practical Strategies to Elicit Commitment & Accountability in Today’s Climate of Change and Disruption

MSSBTI

It is challenging to get people’s attention in this age of information overload. Today’s whitewater” includes technology that allows us to be on 24/7, technology that can do some of the work better than people, globalization which means business opportunities and threats can come from anywhere, new generational influences entering the workforce, and on and on. It is also the disruption that constantly changes our business models, our strategies and our world as we know it.

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Simplifying strategic alignment – building resilient and sustainable organisations

ImagineNation

The outcomes included increased cohesion, collaboration, and agility, making them resilient and sustainable as high performing and fast-moving effective teams – who responded quickly to change, often in the face of disruption and adversity. I since evolved Compass Learning, more than six years ago, into ImagineNation where our focus is on enabling people and organisation to be, think and act differently to adapt and grow through disruption.

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New innovation approaches to counter the fear of Business Contagion

Paul Hobcraft

Recognizing complex acknowledges the volatility and disruptions that are constantly occurring. Choosing new innovative approaches to counter the fear of Business Contagion.

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Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it

Steve Blank

In the 21 st century it’s harder for large corporations to create disruptive breakthroughs. Disruptive innovations are coming from startups – Telsa for automobiles, Uber for taxis, Airbnb for hotel rentals, Netflix for video rentals and Facebook for media. Over the last decade, Intel missed two important disruptive trends. Which brings us to the fourth reason it’s harder for large corporations to offer disruptive breakthroughs: startups.

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Applying the Three Horizon Thinking to a Fresh Perspective of Innovation Design

Paul Hobcraft

The 3H informs the decisions to be taken, by recognizing their importance to the future and ‘frame’ resource allocation, identify current capability gaps to resolve. I would argue this fits within a constellation of partners all working towards delivering innovation that is highly valuable, radical, disruptive and distinctive. We need to design our systems to be highly agile. There is huge value in applying the three horizon framework into your thinking.

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How Innovation Labs Must Evolve

Moves the Needle

However, innovation labs and teams were never (or at least rarely) going to create breakthroughs or disruptive innovations. The future of successful innovation labs is NOT to take on the responsibility of invention or figuring out new business models that will disrupt their industry. However, there’s no evidence supporting the idea that non-technical companies, which are not inventing technology, need to do breakthroughs or disruptive innovation.

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5G Entrepreneurs Creating Billion-Dollar Businesses

Daniel Burrus

New multibillion-dollar businesses will appear that didn’t exist before due to 5G wireless technology. Because of this, many industries will either be agile , reacting to an ever-increasing number of 5G innovators disrupting their industry, or they will be anticipatory innovators and use the predictability of 5G capabilities to become the disruptor. This generation of wireless technology is already being deployed in major cities in the U.S. Within the next five years.

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Becoming a RAD Organization

Moves the Needle

The goal of the book Disruption Proof is to help leaders and founders of companies to create what I call RAD companies, which stands for being resilient, aware, and dynamic. It could be core technology or even values. Blog post Disruption Proof

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Transforming What? Delivering Future Impact

Paul Hobcraft

In today’s global market, with its rapid technology diffusion, disruptive and constant change with an emphasis on servicing the work to be done is more important than the work done and intangible assets are fundamental to this. Delivering Future Impact on Performance.

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Don’t Miss AR’s Amazing Opportunities

Daniel Burrus

Data is overlaid onto a live view of something, and users can multitask, allowing them to work while simultaneously accessing important information. When it comes to using digital technology, there is always a time to unplug. It does not encourage us to close ourselves off from our physical existence; it allows us to see insightful information in real time. Augmented reality (AR) is a new industry growing at an exponential rate, loaded with opportunities for job creation.

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Lead the Possible, Not the Probable

The Human Factor

For example, suppose an outsider disrupts your industry by introducing a totally new solution that offers more value for significantly less cost. Start by broadening the scope of where you look for ideas, information, and opportunities. source.

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To Accelerate, Slow Down First

Daniel Burrus

One of the focal points of the Anticipatory Organization model is the importance of paying sufficient attention to predictable problems and disruptions. Put simply, so many of us are so busy executing whatever plans we may have in place that we overlook the value of looking into the future and spotting potential disruption. For years, storing valuable data and information in the cloud was seen as vulnerable and very insecure.

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GE and its Global Innovation Barometer 2016

Paul Hobcraft

This year the barometer decided to explore the perceptions of the (informed) public for their thoughts on innovation’s growing impact and in particular, the future of work and they interviewed 1,346 to gain some useful insights and pointers that separate business and the citizen in their understandings. The energy sector is ripe for disruption (again GE specific). Both business executives and informed citizens are optimistic about the digital transformation of the world.

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

These are big data analytics, the fast adoption of new technologies, mobile products and capabilities and digital design.See the above for the complete list on where innovation is heading, it makes interesting viewing. The ability to possibly catch up might come from exploiting technology platforms but this needs some equally careful thinking through and does not avoid the internal need to change and re-orient to this new digital innovation world.