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The terms “innovation” and “disruption” are commonly used in today’s business world. Disruption is innovation, but not all innovation is disruption, just like all squares are technically rectangles , but not all rectangles are squares. It’s not even as simple as that, because sometimes innovations become disruptive after reaching a tipping point. What Disruption Does. Disruption creates new markets or fundamentally changes how you think of a product or service. MORE
The business world is showing an increasing interest in the people side of change, and there is a very real reason for this… Companies are spending an increasing amount of their budget on technology and working to transform their operations to be more digital in order to provide a better experience for customers, employees, partners. MORE
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. MORE
With that comes an extreme diet change, such as going vegan in many cases, the debate of meatless versus meat-consuming becomes a pure battle of attrition. An integral part of anticipation and becoming anticipatory in your organization oftentimes has to do with catching an opportunity that everyone is either missing or perhaps even ignoring due to the belief that it is not profitable. One way to accomplish this is to simply look where no one else is looking. MORE
Simultaneously, we are living in disruptive VUCA conditions, yet we are generously and courageously helping out others, to save homes, native animals, and flora and fauna. Innovation accountability change collaboration consciousness Creativity culture Disruptive Innovation Diversity and Inclusion future inclusion Innovation Mindset innovative thinking invention Leadership Strategy MORE
Being anticipatory is a multifaceted offense in a world of rapid digital disruption. In some cases, it’s about identifying opportunities for major disruptions within your industry that you yourself can introduce, such as Airbnb did to the hotel and timeshare industry or Uber did to the taxi and rideshare industry. The Continuing Digital Disruption. Nevertheless, it’s interesting to observe that employee attitudes toward digital disruption often go beyond mere anticipation. MORE
By any measure, that was a disruptive statement. While more and more of us are becoming aware of the impact climate change will have on current and future lives and the planet we keep pressing the same buttons, switches and pedals that make the energy flow. Yet if climate change is going to be managed, we’ve got to make it easier for consumers to make good choices. Earth Summit 1992 followed in Rio, creating the Climate Change Convention. MORE
Shawn Hunter's ten strategies that he outlines in his class book "Out Think" for driving the disruptive innovations that entrepreneurs and startups all dream about: Build Capability Disruption Growth Innovation Leadership People & Skills Strategy book review startupsHere is my summary and interpretation of author G. MORE
The world we live in is in a constant state of change. A 2014 study hinges on that axiom, attempting to quantify the accelerating rate of said change in a business/enterprise capacity by looking at the entry and exit of U.S. Innovation disruption Inspiration Leadership Management Organizational Changecorporations in the S&P 500 index. “In In 1958, corporations listed in the S&P 500. MORE
I was invited to talk about disruptive innovation, but the COVID-19 virus changed that and classes and all other activities were cancelled. The main point I wanted the students to take away is that disruption isn’t about destruction, it’s about creating new products / services, new choices for more people. Nowadays “disrupt” is thrown around as if everyone is doing it. Truthfully, disruption is rare. MORE
They become fixed, rigid and locked into their established ways, not adapting to the changes occurring around them. If we can’t adapt to changing times, we simply struggle to survive, that is the growing reality operating in today’s environment. Simply put companies ‘die’ due to their inability to adapt to change and transformation projects fail because the message somehow fails to register and never gets completed to the original objectives. MORE
How do you craft your strategy beyond next week when so many things are changing all around you? How do you dodge a meteor hurtling towards your job, team, business, organization, industry, or community? Environmental Scanning engage conference MORE
Embracing an intrapreneurial mindset, which intentionally disrupts things from the inside out and often from the bottom up, is a radical concept for companies that thrive on stability and predictability. Creative Leadership Innovation Psychology Strategies culture change disruptive innovation innovation culture internal communications intrapreneur organization & culture scaling up Stakeholders MORE
For those interested in digital disruption and technological advancements , Bitcoin represented so much more than a way to allegedly make money fast like some type of digital wolf of Wall Street. Trust me when I say it will be far more disruptive than Bitcoin ever had the chance to be. MORE
As we move towards the beginning of a new year in the cycle of seasonal changes, here in Melbourne, Australia, it is summer, a time for accelerating growth. We have all been challenged by disruption. Why disrupt yourself, your team, and organisation? MORE
For some, the post-coronavirus “new normal” is a frightening concept that rattles their status quo, while others are taking this moment to seize new opportunities afforded to us by a global disruption, as COVID-19 has proven to be. MORE
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. It comes as no surprise to me or many out there working to disrupt the incumbent but it makes for difficult reading that this is not addressed far more head on. Note : Understandable but not forgivable in this disrupting world). MORE
When you’re comparing incremental innovation vs disruptive innovation, what’s the difference? Incremental innovation is small, modular change that takes place slowly over time, and allows for a gradual development of the product and its marketplace. MORE
A central component of the Anticipatory Organization model is disruption—more specifically, how Anticipatory Organizations and individuals can look at disruption and see enormous opportunity. Leveraging disruption could produce a revolutionary new product or service, lead to a significant improvement on an existing model or any number of advancements. If you’re in an industry that is starting to feel stale, it might be a sign that a disruption is needed. MORE
Similarly, today, where we are riding the wave of disruptive change; COVID-19, and range of chaotic global events, we have the chance to be mindfully present to sense and see the best learning opportunities and creative possibilities that the disruptive waves offer us, as they arise. The waves of disruptive change are the masters. Yet the waves of disruptive change are actually not only our teachers, but they are also our masters. MORE
An Anticipatory Leader understands that technology-driven change is accelerating at an exponential rate. Reacting to problems and digital disruptions, no matter how agile you and your organization are, is no longer good enough. Anticipatory Leaders know that a high percentage of future disruptions, problems, and game-changing opportunities are predictable and represent unprecedented ways to accelerate growth and gain advantage. MORE
Kipling wasn't writing about new product development, business model change or innovation, but what he is writing is entirely applicable to our situation today - first quarter 2021. The folks who tell us about climate change tell us that what will actually occur is less predictable weather and weather patterns. Perhaps the "normality" of the 70s, 80s, and 90s was unreasonable, and our lives are subject to more change and uncertainty than we'd like to admit. MORE
Now, not everyone has it in their homes because YouTube TV, Sling TV, and other new, emerging technologies have disrupted the broadcast industry. Why did they become the disrupted and not the disruptor? The fact that most of us are all busy, focused, and needing to meet or exceed our quarterly numbers keeps us from looking far enough ahead in our industries to see disruption. A key to success for a company that’s facing disruption–adopt a strategy of embrace and extend. MORE
The issue we must tackle today, is how we go about adapting to the changing world? One that will be able to take all the advantages of the changes all businesses are undergoing, how societies will be adjusting and responding. We are in a period of (great) change. MORE
A breakthrough can be an even bigger deal than a disruption. Aren’t breakthrough innovation and disruptive innovation the same thing? After all, the car, the telephone, the smartphone, the electric car, the solar panel, weren’t these all breakthroughs that were also disruptive? It is innovation that opens the company to new markets or changes the way customers interact with the market or the industry. Breakthrough Innovation Or Disruptive Innovation? MORE
In our last blog “Leading and managing human transitions through disruption and adversity,” we described the importance of leaders and managers becoming more generous, tolerant, caring, empathic not only with themselves, and also with others they interact with. MORE
In the beginning of 2020 business disruption was largely viewed as an “Airbnb” or “Uber” taking mind and market share from industry stalwarts. Today, business disruption is synonymous with COVID-19 closures and the corresponding economic slowdown. MORE
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). MORE
The key is not to react to change, but to get ahead of it by paying attention to Hard Trends. However, IBM soon had the last laugh when people learned that the Weather Company’s cloud-based service could handle over 26 million inquiries every day on the organization’s website and mobile app, all while learning from the daily changes in weather and from the questions being asked. Are you reacting to change or paying attention to the Hard Trend facts that are shaping the future? MORE
I think managers and leaders are wondering now that I’ve written two popular books (Charting Change and Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire) and a chapter … Continue reading → Change Innovation Bank of Montreal Change Planning Canvas Change Planning Toolkit disruption Disruptive Innovation frameworks methodologies OSF Healthcare Tools value innovation… and a new Innovation Intervention service. MORE
Reinforcing and validating the importance and role of collaboration, where a range of new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed innovative workplace culture changes, have emerged. Capacity to change. What makes Israel so innovative? MORE
2017 promises to be a year of unprecedented change. As a result, it will be imperative for managers to empower themselves with the tools that will help effectively lead the change initiatives that will be required to cope with political and economic turmoil and threats from digital entrants intent on disrupting the industry your company. MORE
In a time when uncertainty reigns, the fear of being disrupted can brutally hurt any business. Responsible leaders who dare to anticipate disruption and take steps to self-inflict it to their organization in a smart and controlled way are best positioned for the future. The post Why Let Others Disrupt You? Take the Smart Self-Disruption Journey! MORE
It is often assumed that people don’t like change, when in reality humans are born to instinctively love change. It’s why we take vacations and crave travel, because we want and need change. In this case, change is a choice, so we like it. But there is also a negative side to change: when the change affects you personally, unpleasantly, and unknowingly. Linear change is a one-way street with many predictable consequences. Change the View. MORE
“Why do we always seem to have internal difficulties to self-disrupt?”. In most cases, organizations cannot self-disrupt, which is largely covered by this veritable list of constraints. You impact culture by a changing environment or altering the climate. MORE
That’s similar to today, where the disruptive waves of COVID-19 and a range of chaotic global events are causing massive social unrest that is hard to resist. To engage and collaborate with your colleagues and customers in creative and inventive ways, to help them be resilient and get into the wave of transformative change, here are some tips to help flow happen: Use your mindful self-awareness to authentically be the change you wish to be in the world. MORE
Still, it is how we all undergo the changes needed in a radically different set of economic circumstances. The change in our world is even a little scary, it actually is giving me a little “angst.” We are certainly in a VUCA world now, so often used to describe changes, but it can now be applied in a real reality we are facing. ” When you change paradigms , you’re changing how you think about something. MORE
Change is happening faster, it’s more complex and far reaching than ever, yet the failure rate of organisational change is around 80%. There are various approaches organisations can follow to build a culture for innovation and to manage change effectively. MORE
Every business misses the future and gets disrupted by an outsider. So, change instead comes from some eggheads down in Silicon Valley.”. Disruption never comes from within. Every disruption is caused from the outside because everybody on the inside buys into the b t.”. Yes, but still not much has changed. Disruption never comes from within. Boxing hasn’t changed in a while, there’s a common structure to how boxers compete against each other. MORE
IdeaScale
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
When you’re comparing incremental innovation vs disruptive innovation, what’s the difference? Incremental innovation is small, modular change that takes place slowly over time, and allows for a gradual development of the product and its marketplace.
Daniel Burrus
JANUARY 27, 2021
For those interested in digital disruption and technological advancements , Bitcoin represented so much more than a way to allegedly make money fast like some type of digital wolf of Wall Street. Trust me when I say it will be far more disruptive than Bitcoin ever had the chance to be.
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Paul Hobcraft
JANUARY 25, 2021
“Why do we always seem to have internal difficulties to self-disrupt?”. In most cases, organizations cannot self-disrupt, which is largely covered by this veritable list of constraints. You impact culture by a changing environment or altering the climate.
Innovation Excellence
APRIL 23, 2018
The business world is showing an increasing interest in the people side of change, and there is a very real reason for this… Companies are spending an increasing amount of their budget on technology and working to transform their operations to be more digital in order to provide a better experience for customers, employees, partners.
Speaker: Janet Sernack, Founder and CEO of ImagineNation
Join the founder and CEO of ImagineNationTM, Janet Sernack, to understand how developing an innovation coaching skill set can help lead the way in supporting people through the exponential change and disruption in our VUCA world.
ImagineNation
DECEMBER 13, 2020
As we move towards the beginning of a new year in the cycle of seasonal changes, here in Melbourne, Australia, it is summer, a time for accelerating growth. We have all been challenged by disruption. Why disrupt yourself, your team, and organisation?
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InnovationManagement
JULY 15, 2020
In a time when uncertainty reigns, the fear of being disrupted can brutally hurt any business. Responsible leaders who dare to anticipate disruption and take steps to self-inflict it to their organization in a smart and controlled way are best positioned for the future. The post Why Let Others Disrupt You? Take the Smart Self-Disruption Journey!
Braden Kelley
MAY 19, 2017
I think managers and leaders are wondering now that I’ve written two popular books (Charting Change and Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire) and a chapter … Continue reading → Change Innovation Bank of Montreal Change Planning Canvas Change Planning Toolkit disruption Disruptive Innovation frameworks methodologies OSF Healthcare Tools value innovation… and a new Innovation Intervention service.
Paul Hobcraft
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
The issue we must tackle today, is how we go about adapting to the changing world? One that will be able to take all the advantages of the changes all businesses are undergoing, how societies will be adjusting and responding. We are in a period of (great) change.
Daniel Burrus
MARCH 27, 2019
An Anticipatory Leader understands that technology-driven change is accelerating at an exponential rate. Reacting to problems and digital disruptions, no matter how agile you and your organization are, is no longer good enough. Anticipatory Leaders know that a high percentage of future disruptions, problems, and game-changing opportunities are predictable and represent unprecedented ways to accelerate growth and gain advantage.
Speaker: Greg Satell
Everybody has something they’d like to change, whether it is a problem in their organization, their industry, their community or society at large. But how can you get your ideas for change to take hold beyond a small circle of likeminded people? What you need is a cascade: small groups that are loosely connected but united by a common purpose. When they synchronize their collective behavior as networks, they become immensely powerful. A business model is disrupted, an industry is remade, the preceding order is no more and the world is transformed.
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InnovationManagement
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
Embracing an intrapreneurial mindset, which intentionally disrupts things from the inside out and often from the bottom up, is a radical concept for companies that thrive on stability and predictability. Creative Leadership Innovation Psychology Strategies culture change disruptive innovation innovation culture internal communications intrapreneur organization & culture scaling up Stakeholders
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 8, 2020
That’s similar to today, where the disruptive waves of COVID-19 and a range of chaotic global events are causing massive social unrest that is hard to resist. To engage and collaborate with your colleagues and customers in creative and inventive ways, to help them be resilient and get into the wave of transformative change, here are some tips to help flow happen: Use your mindful self-awareness to authentically be the change you wish to be in the world.
IdeaScale
SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
A breakthrough can be an even bigger deal than a disruption. Aren’t breakthrough innovation and disruptive innovation the same thing? After all, the car, the telephone, the smartphone, the electric car, the solar panel, weren’t these all breakthroughs that were also disruptive? It is innovation that opens the company to new markets or changes the way customers interact with the market or the industry. Breakthrough Innovation Or Disruptive Innovation?
ImagineNation
AUGUST 3, 2020
In our last blog “Leading and managing human transitions through disruption and adversity,” we described the importance of leaders and managers becoming more generous, tolerant, caring, empathic not only with themselves, and also with others they interact with.
Daniel Burrus
DECEMBER 16, 2020
For some, the post-coronavirus “new normal” is a frightening concept that rattles their status quo, while others are taking this moment to seize new opportunities afforded to us by a global disruption, as COVID-19 has proven to be.
Daniel Burrus
JANUARY 22, 2020
Being anticipatory is a multifaceted offense in a world of rapid digital disruption. In some cases, it’s about identifying opportunities for major disruptions within your industry that you yourself can introduce, such as Airbnb did to the hotel and timeshare industry or Uber did to the taxi and rideshare industry. The Continuing Digital Disruption. Nevertheless, it’s interesting to observe that employee attitudes toward digital disruption often go beyond mere anticipation.
Daniel Burrus
JUNE 5, 2019
Now, not everyone has it in their homes because YouTube TV, Sling TV, and other new, emerging technologies have disrupted the broadcast industry. Why did they become the disrupted and not the disruptor? The fact that most of us are all busy, focused, and needing to meet or exceed our quarterly numbers keeps us from looking far enough ahead in our industries to see disruption. A key to success for a company that’s facing disruption–adopt a strategy of embrace and extend.
Yet2
NOVEMBER 22, 2020
In the beginning of 2020 business disruption was largely viewed as an “Airbnb” or “Uber” taking mind and market share from industry stalwarts. Today, business disruption is synonymous with COVID-19 closures and the corresponding economic slowdown.
Game-Changer
MARCH 23, 2020
I was invited to talk about disruptive innovation, but the COVID-19 virus changed that and classes and all other activities were cancelled. The main point I wanted the students to take away is that disruption isn’t about destruction, it’s about creating new products / services, new choices for more people. Nowadays “disrupt” is thrown around as if everyone is doing it. Truthfully, disruption is rare.
ImagineNation
JANUARY 28, 2021
Reinforcing and validating the importance and role of collaboration, where a range of new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed innovative workplace culture changes, have emerged. Capacity to change. What makes Israel so innovative?
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 2, 2016
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.
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 14, 2017
Shawn Hunter's ten strategies that he outlines in his class book "Out Think" for driving the disruptive innovations that entrepreneurs and startups all dream about: Build Capability Disruption Growth Innovation Leadership People & Skills Strategy book review startupsHere is my summary and interpretation of author G.
Jeffrey Phillips
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
Kipling wasn't writing about new product development, business model change or innovation, but what he is writing is entirely applicable to our situation today - first quarter 2021. The folks who tell us about climate change tell us that what will actually occur is less predictable weather and weather patterns. Perhaps the "normality" of the 70s, 80s, and 90s was unreasonable, and our lives are subject to more change and uncertainty than we'd like to admit.
Daniel Burrus
DECEMBER 18, 2019
It is often assumed that people don’t like change, when in reality humans are born to instinctively love change. It’s why we take vacations and crave travel, because we want and need change. In this case, change is a choice, so we like it. But there is also a negative side to change: when the change affects you personally, unpleasantly, and unknowingly. Linear change is a one-way street with many predictable consequences. Change the View.
The Future Shapers
SEPTEMBER 7, 2020
Change is happening faster, it’s more complex and far reaching than ever, yet the failure rate of organisational change is around 80%. There are various approaches organisations can follow to build a culture for innovation and to manage change effectively.
100%Open
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
By any measure, that was a disruptive statement. While more and more of us are becoming aware of the impact climate change will have on current and future lives and the planet we keep pressing the same buttons, switches and pedals that make the energy flow. Yet if climate change is going to be managed, we’ve got to make it easier for consumers to make good choices. Earth Summit 1992 followed in Rio, creating the Climate Change Convention.
Paul Hobcraft
APRIL 21, 2020
Still, it is how we all undergo the changes needed in a radically different set of economic circumstances. The change in our world is even a little scary, it actually is giving me a little “angst.” We are certainly in a VUCA world now, so often used to describe changes, but it can now be applied in a real reality we are facing. ” When you change paradigms , you’re changing how you think about something.
Paul Hobcraft
APRIL 1, 2016
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. It comes as no surprise to me or many out there working to disrupt the incumbent but it makes for difficult reading that this is not addressed far more head on. Note : Understandable but not forgivable in this disrupting world).
Innovation Excellence
JANUARY 8, 2019
The world we live in is in a constant state of change. A 2014 study hinges on that axiom, attempting to quantify the accelerating rate of said change in a business/enterprise capacity by looking at the entry and exit of U.S. Innovation disruption Inspiration Leadership Management Organizational Changecorporations in the S&P 500 index. “In In 1958, corporations listed in the S&P 500.
Daniel Burrus
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
With that comes an extreme diet change, such as going vegan in many cases, the debate of meatless versus meat-consuming becomes a pure battle of attrition. An integral part of anticipation and becoming anticipatory in your organization oftentimes has to do with catching an opportunity that everyone is either missing or perhaps even ignoring due to the belief that it is not profitable. One way to accomplish this is to simply look where no one else is looking.
Game-Changer
JULY 19, 2017
Every business misses the future and gets disrupted by an outsider. So, change instead comes from some eggheads down in Silicon Valley.”. Disruption never comes from within. Every disruption is caused from the outside because everybody on the inside buys into the b t.”. Yes, but still not much has changed. Disruption never comes from within. Boxing hasn’t changed in a while, there’s a common structure to how boxers compete against each other.
Cascade Strategy
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
How do you craft your strategy beyond next week when so many things are changing all around you? How do you dodge a meteor hurtling towards your job, team, business, organization, industry, or community? Environmental Scanning engage conference
Idea to Value
JUNE 15, 2016
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).
Daniel Burrus
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
The key is not to react to change, but to get ahead of it by paying attention to Hard Trends. However, IBM soon had the last laugh when people learned that the Weather Company’s cloud-based service could handle over 26 million inquiries every day on the organization’s website and mobile app, all while learning from the daily changes in weather and from the questions being asked. Are you reacting to change or paying attention to the Hard Trend facts that are shaping the future?
Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 20, 2015
They become fixed, rigid and locked into their established ways, not adapting to the changes occurring around them. If we can’t adapt to changing times, we simply struggle to survive, that is the growing reality operating in today’s environment. Simply put companies ‘die’ due to their inability to adapt to change and transformation projects fail because the message somehow fails to register and never gets completed to the original objectives.
IdeaScale
MARCH 19, 2019
The terms “innovation” and “disruption” are commonly used in today’s business world. Disruption is innovation, but not all innovation is disruption, just like all squares are technically rectangles , but not all rectangles are squares. It’s not even as simple as that, because sometimes innovations become disruptive after reaching a tipping point. What Disruption Does. Disruption creates new markets or fundamentally changes how you think of a product or service.
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 8, 2016
2017 promises to be a year of unprecedented change. As a result, it will be imperative for managers to empower themselves with the tools that will help effectively lead the change initiatives that will be required to cope with political and economic turmoil and threats from digital entrants intent on disrupting the industry your company.
Daniel Burrus
OCTOBER 3, 2017
A central component of the Anticipatory Organization model is disruption—more specifically, how Anticipatory Organizations and individuals can look at disruption and see enormous opportunity. Leveraging disruption could produce a revolutionary new product or service, lead to a significant improvement on an existing model or any number of advancements. If you’re in an industry that is starting to feel stale, it might be a sign that a disruption is needed.
Innovation Excellence
MARCH 9, 2020
Simultaneously, we are living in disruptive VUCA conditions, yet we are generously and courageously helping out others, to save homes, native animals, and flora and fauna. Innovation accountability change collaboration consciousness Creativity culture Disruptive Innovation Diversity and Inclusion future inclusion Innovation Mindset innovative thinking invention Leadership Strategy
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