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Future-Centered Design: How to Turn Great Ideas into Action Plans

Daniel Burrus

As a matter of fact, some of the most transformative ideas that have gone on to change the world have been from a lower- to mid-level employee. Most likely, at first the answer will be no, but you can change that! Great ideas do not always come from the top down.

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“Decouple” the Value Chain to Drive Digital Disruption

Leapfrogging

Digital disruption isn’t just about the internet or mobile technology. I recently had a chance to connect with Harvard Business School professor, Thales Teixeira, whose most recent book, Unlocking the Customer Value Chain , highlights the dynamics of “decoupling” and why it will drive even more disruption than we’ve seen in the world. Teixeira says the seeds of digital disruption originally started with unbundling as the internet became widely accessible.

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The Dangers of Legacy Thinking

Daniel Burrus

For example, Delta Airlines’ entire fleet in the United States was temporarily grounded because of computer problems—the second shutdown over a period of six months also shutting down the carrier’s website and mobile apps. One example is agility—the ability to respond quickly to changing events and market conditions. However, we are now in a period of transformational change. Legacy Thinking—Changing Your Thinking Changes Your Results.

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The Risks of Sticking with Legacy Technology

Daniel Burrus

In a world of exponential change, legacy technology is trouble. In July 2016, Southwest Airlines canceled 2,300 flights when a router failed, delaying hundreds of thousands of passengers. Legacy technology is like that old pair of jeans you wore as a teenager. They are comfortable” was always your answer to any inquiry.

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Book Review – The Disruption Mindset by Charlene Li

Rmukesh Gupta

The book is about is basically about what do organizations (typically incumbent organizations) do to be successful at the business of disruption, the assumption being that it is unusual for the incumbents to disrupt themselves or their industries. What is the book about: Charlene gleams some key insights from some case studies of incumbent organizations, which either lost their way or got disrupted found their way to disrupt themselves and in some cases their industries.

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Robotic Process Automation: what changes with the automation process

mjvinnovation

For example, companies like airlines employ thousands of customer service agents, but customers are still waiting in line. This can create some nightmarish scenarios for employees who find their day-to-day processes and workflows disrupted. .

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Using The Both/And Principle To Increase Trust

Daniel Burrus

A few more similarly accelerating technology Hard Trends that increase in-person trust are contact-less kiosks for self-service in retail stores, and hotel and airline check-in using facial recognition and/or voice and smartphone.

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Human-centred innovation in a digital world.

Paul Hobcraft

Today we are facing many current disruptions where we need to react fast and intelligently. The digital twin spans so much in industry and changing the products we use through its predictive, modelling, optimizing approach. Airlines are looking to encourage us back onto their planes.

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Your Guide to Fueling Enterprise Innovation in the Transport Industry

Qmarkets

We’re right at the beginning of an era of market disruption affecting sweeping, radical changes to personal and public transport, and the pressure on companies to innovate is coming from all directions.

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Innovating Now for a Post COVID19 World

Innovation Excellence

COVID19 will change the way we behave, conduct business, and indeed how we innovate for years to come. Exactly how much change we’ll see and what those changes will actually be is still unfolding.

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Your Guide to Fueling Enterprise Innovation in the Transport Industry

Qmarkets

Huge changes are afoot, as market disruption pressures companies from all directions. Technology is central to these innovations and the pace and scale of change is only going to accelerate as we move through the 2020s.

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Crowdsourcing Internal Innovation

Collective Innovation

Enhancement : This is usually a small change to create a difference between other offerings. Line Extension : Takes an existing line and makes a change to set it apart and create differentiation. For instance with airlines, you can create a difference by creating a better user experience if most airlines have the same expectation.

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Practicing for an emerging future

Jeffrey Phillips

I'll address this more shortly, but as the pace of change increases, as we have more interaction and more trade, as there is more and more widely dispersed technology, the future will be different than today. Consider how the Black Plague changed Europe, basically ending the feudal system.

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Personalization: Where Are You?

Linda Bernardi

My passion for data has always been to harness information into useful insights in order to improve services and delight customers, not to collect, archive, then never change business models. This includes major and other credit cards, airlines, hotels, etc.

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Human-centred innovation in a digital world.

Paul Hobcraft

Today we are facing many current disruptions where we need to react fast and intelligently. The digital twin spans so much in industry and changing the products we use through its predictive, modelling, optimizing approach. Airlines are looking to encourage us back onto their planes.

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Human-centred innovation in a digital world.

Paul Hobcraft

Today we are facing many current disruptions where we need to react fast and intelligently. The digital twin spans so much in industry and changing the products we use through its predictive, modelling, optimizing approach. Airlines are looking to encourage us back onto their planes.

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Transport Innovation: Your Guide to Driving Industry Innovation

Qmarkets

We’re right at the beginning of an era of market disruption affecting sweeping, radical changes to personal and public transport, and the pressure on companies to innovate is coming from all directions.

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Overcoming fixedness before being locked in amber

Jeffrey Phillips

Innovation comes from outside It may not seem evident at first, but virtually all radical and disruptive innovation originates from outside an industry's boundaries, by people who often weren't even in the industry, who were serving other clients or other needs and saw a way to serve a new set of customers or solve a new set of needs. When multiple factors are changing, disruption is easier to accept. What do competitors assume is fixed but could change?

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Entrepreneurs Bring Ideas to Life

Rmukesh Gupta

They beget change. When Richard Branson was mistreated by British Airways, he went on to start Virgin Airlines. For example, one entrepreneur that I know well is Kumar (name changed). They understand that the only thing that is permanent is the wheel of change. Change: Good entrepreneurs know that the wheels of change are always on the move. So, they are always looking for opportunities to initiate change.

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Building a Business Case for Innovation Management – Why Now?

Qmarkets

While disruptive periods like this can be incredibly damaging, you only have to look at the companies founded during previous recessions to see that a crisis can also create many opportunities.

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Building a Business Case for Innovation Management – Why Now?

Qmarkets

While disruptive periods like this can be incredibly damaging, you only have to look at the companies founded during previous recessions to see that a crisis can also create many opportunities.

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The Value of One Good Idea

KindlingApp

As Doss points out, changing company culture is not easy—it’s an organizational shift that takes time and effort. Consider the iPod, Uber, or Airbnb—one good idea can can be so valuable that it disrupts entire industries. For example, in 1972, Southwest Airlines was in deep trouble: they had already been forced to sell a number of their aircraft, and were still losing money at a rapid rate. Southwest isn’t the only airline to benefit from one good idea.

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PESTLED360: Iron Out Key Driving Forces in Your Current Environment and Anticipate Future Ones

Innovation 360 Group

Understanding your external context and the global key drivers impacting your organization prepare you for change. PESTLED illuminates current influences, but more importantly, it alerts you to rapidly approaching changes and market dynamics across industries.

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Collaboration in the Time of the Coronavirus: How to Innovate Effectively During a Crisis

Qmarkets

During these days of global unrest – with news about the coronavirus and its severity changing daily – businesses across all sectors should keep the message of this proverb in mind.

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Analysis Of The Next-Generation Mobility Value Chain

Corporate Innovation

It is also important for the companies participating in certain parts of this value chain to have broad know-how about transportation regulation so that they can understand how changes in regulations may be affecting them, as well as what regulations will need to be enacted in order to effectively use ACE vehicles to offer on-demand mobility services globally. Table 2 summarizes the areas of expertise car rental companies and airlines contribute to the ACE mobility services value chain.

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Official Launch of the PESTLED360

Innovation 360 Group

Understanding the external context and the global key drivers prepare you for change. PESTLED can illuminate current influences, but more importantly, it can alert you to rapidly approaching changes and market dynamics across industries.

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Coopetition

CREATORS

You can read part one HERE ** Do you remember who invented the liquid crystal display (LCD) back in 2003 that disrupted a whole industry and thereby brought the era of traditional tube televisions to an end? Start-ups are agile, their organizational structure promotes innovation and drives change forward?—?this They partnered with Lufthansa Systems, Boeing and Gate Group to create innovative solutions for the whole airline-industry.

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A new value chain for next-generation mobility

Corporate Innovation

ACE vehicles and on-demand mobility will cause three major shifts that can lead to the disruption of the automotive and transportation industries: a consumer shift, an automotive industry shift, and a mobility services shift. Changes in personal mobility. Let’s begin by reviewing the most important challenges contributing to changes in personal mobility. Pollution and climate change are also impacting the quality of our lives, particularly in cities (and here ).

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Game Changers: How Citizen Science and Gamification Are Transforming the Business World

Qmarkets

In the current disruptive business landscape, where innovation is more important than ever , organizations need to look to alternative sources to gather ideas and solutions in order to remain successful.

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Innovation Strategy – 6 Possibilities with Regulatory Constraints

BrainZooming

As the Journal article states, “The fledging aviators in the JetBlue program would still have to meet this requirement (1,500 hours of flying), but by assessing students at various intervals short of 1,500 hours, the airline seeks to show that its curriculum can produce outstanding pilots who have spent fewer hours in actual aircraft.” Reading this article made me think of our change management strategy matrix.

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Automakers Must Partner Around Big Data

Corporate Innovation

By extensively utilizing data, and paying attention to detail Tesla has changed the conversation on the type of personalized experience car owners (drivers and passengers) should expect from an automaker. By partnering with them, automakers will be able to better understand their customers in far greater detail than they do today, as well as mobility services, which threaten to disrupt them.

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Automakers Must Partner Around Big Data

Corporate Innovation

By extensively utilizing data, and paying attention to detail Tesla has changed the conversation on the type of personalized experience car owners (drivers and passengers) should expect from an automaker. By partnering with them, automakers will be able to better understand their customers in far greater detail than they do today, as well as mobility services, which threaten to disrupt them.

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Automakers Must Partner Around Big Data

Corporate Innovation

By extensively utilizing data, and paying attention to detail Tesla has changed the conversation on the type of personalized experience car owners (drivers and passengers) should expect from an automaker. By partnering with them, automakers will be able to better understand their customers in far greater detail than they do today, as well as mobility services, which threaten to disrupt them.

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Don’t Fear the Fad

CorporateIntel

People have bet against railroads, phones, airlines, television, personal computers, and even guitar bands as fads—and that was before they had customers! Styles change, tastes change, brand loyalties change. Watch the fad-makers, not the fads themselves, and the game changes significantly. As an investor, can you ever know for certain if that newfangled gizmo come to market is the real deal or a fad?

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Five Categories of On-Demand Mobility Services Companies

Corporate Innovation

In the process, ride-hailing has disrupted the taxi and limo industries and could next disrupt public transportation and last-mile package delivery. For example, consider the changes to the car rental operating model. This is the Singapore Airlines model. This is the Skywest Airlines model. In this case they will become more like Southwest Airlines. This is the Frontier Airlines model. This is the United Airlines model.