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Disruption Should Never Sneak Up on You: Find the Courage to Change by Using Hard Trends

Daniel Burrus

I want you to take a moment and ask yourself: are you afraid of change? Are those individuals who answered “no” to fearing change fearless? What Causes Change Today? Today, the most prominent force of change is digital disruptions. The Fear of Digital Disruption.

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Change is Uncomfortable. Not Changing Can be Regrettable.

Daniel Burrus

Change Is Uncomfortable. Change may be the only constant in our lives, but that doesn’t mean we are happy about it! Change is possible, often unpredictable, and when it is unpredictable, it is uncomfortable. Change Is Disruptive. Certainty Makes Change Predictable.

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Anticipation: Foresee Disruption and Find Opportunity

Daniel Burrus

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.

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Exponential Change in 2022: Five Industries to Watch

Daniel Burrus

The sustainability and green movement is a disruptive Hard Trend in and of itself, and it provides much opportunity for an Anticipatory entrepreneur or business leader in many different ways, especially when applying technology. .

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Taking Personal Responsibility – Creating the Line of Choice

Innovation Excellence

Where many people are … Continue reading → Change collaboration culture Entrepreneurship Innovation Leadership Training behavior change Business Transformation change change lea change leadership change management conscious leadership digital transformation disrupt yourself disruption entreprenurial thinking organizational change re-thinking think differently training transformation

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Positive Disruption using Hard Trends and Soft Trends

Daniel Burrus

If you don’t like a Hard Trend, there isn’t a way for you to change it. However, if you don’t like a Soft Trend, you can easily change it to your advantage. I’ve discussed the three digital accelerators responsible for today’s rate of exponential change, transforming every business process in a short amount of time. Merely hoping that disruption is not on your horizon is not a strategy; it is avoidance.

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Catalysing change through innovation teams

ImagineNation

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?

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2017 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards

Innovation Excellence

Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards celebrate individuals and ideas that have broken through and had an impact in business and far beyond.across a wide array of critical fields including technology, biomed, politics, education, healthcare, spirituality, religion, economics, sports, fashion, and philanthropy. Change Conferences Creativity Disruption education Entertainment Entrepreneurship Innovation Global Innovators Innovation awards Innovation Stories

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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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“This innovative book will help readers recognize new opportunities.” — Blue Heron Journal

Faisal Hoque

"Hoque shows how some previously under appreciated strengths - help move us steadily along a path marked by unexpected crises and disruptions.".

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Unique Ways Successful Startups are Changing the Corporate Innovation Landscape

Idea to Value

The corporate landscape is changing drastically, and for a corporate brand to stay relevant, they must innovate in order to change with the market. Accelerator programs benefit corporations by providing them access to innovative and disruptive startups. This allows corporates to manage these disruptive forces rather than compete directly with them. Difference in approach to disruption. Ways in which startups can change corporate innovation.

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Have the Banks already been Disrupted?

Matthew Griffin

“Banks were once the corner stone of the community but today their industry is being disrupted and disintermediated. Over the past two weeks I’ve talked to a number of senior C level executives from some of the UK’s largest retail banks to understand more about their views of the world and their perception of the market and while outwardly little looks like its changing at the Big Five banks their executives are not sitting comfortably.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., This white paper has been originally published to the SSRN: Spruijt, Jan, Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: Why Entrepreneurship Can Hardly Be Taught (May 17, 2017). Entrepreneurship. Corporate entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Competence.

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Five Steps to Change Your Thinking

Daniel Burrus

When you make changes, are they coming at you from the outside in or inside out? In my 30 years of working with top leaders from business, health care, government and education, I have found that the majority of change comes from the outside in. Most of us are conditioned in both our personal and professional lives to make changes based on outside factors. Whenever change comes from the outside, we are forced to react to it.

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

Faisal Hoque

Want to know what disruption looks like? My method of doing business may have to change to incorporate a similar experience, or sooner or later I may be out of business. Thriving means being able to identify, understand, and respond toreal-time to change and disruption.

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

Faisal Hoque

Want to know what disruption looks like? My method of doing business may have to change to incorporate a similar experience, or sooner or later I may be out of business. Thriving means being able to identify, understand, and respond toreal-time to change and disruption.

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A disruptive world requires new leadership capabilities

ImagineNation

For humans to be effective, productive & innovative, in the Digital Age, we must have great leaders, who know that the future of work is both human and technology centred and are able to; Take a strategic, systemic & human centred approach to their role & work, who make it safe & possible for people to change, adapt & innovate. Being safely & intentionally different & provocative, to constantly disrupt & challenge the status quo.

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A Truly Extraordinary Leader Takes a Profit and Leaves a Mark

Daniel Burrus

Age is a Hard Trend ; we all get older every day, and there is nothing we can do to change this future certainty. However, we can change our perception of the aging process, and often, our perception of aging is the real problem, not the aging itself.

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5 Ways to Measure Whether Your Idea Will Become a Great One… or Fail Miserably.

Innovation Excellence

Change Disruption Entrepreneurship Innovation change management ideas influence“Everything begins with an idea.” Right? Uhhmmm… not really. Instead, everything begins with a problem. Something happens (or doesn’t happen) that highlights a problem that either already exists or could exist. And more importantly, the need for a solution is born. The bigger or more widespread the problem, the more pressing an answer to that.

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EVERYONE HATES TO FAIL – WHY DO YOU?

ImagineNation

Or in taking smart risks, that help you connect, explore and discover and design opportunities for making important and necessary, personal and professional changes. Pivot and adapt to disruptive events.

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Intellectual Capital: The Power and Profitability of an Idea

Daniel Burrus

For an anticipatory leader at an anticipatory organization, using intellectual human capital for positive industry disruption is the leading way to leverage it.

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Innovation is a Lifestyle, Not a Bunch of Metrics

Innovation Excellence

Persistent growth, profit, ROI and NPV are the obvious measures, Innovation Leadership Management Business Models change collaboration Creativity culture Design Thinking Disruptive Innovation elemence Entrepreneurship future growth ideas Innovation Management Innovation Mindset innovative thinking insight malofsky marketing Open Innovation Process Strategy success Transformational Innovation

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TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY – SEEING SELF AS THE CAUSE

ImagineNation

Taking personal responsibility is an especially crucial capability, for entrepreneurs and innovators to develop in the decade of both disruption and transformation.

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These Two Words Will Change Your Perception of Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Innovation Excellence

It’s easy to criticize Amazon until you realize that what Bezos is doing is what every disruptive company desperately needs. Disruption Entrepreneurship Innovation LeadershipThe firestorm of controversy about the work environment at Amazon, sparked by the New York Times article a couple of years ago, has become almost religious. Not only did it surface an important dialogue about.

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TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY – GOING BACK TO BASICS

ImagineNation

Reminding us that coupled with the range of crises, uncertainty, and amount of emotional disruption we are experiencing now, going back to basic leadership 101 principles, like taking personal responsibility, might enable us to create a new inclusive and conscious leadership playbook.

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Ready to Take the Leap of Business Ownership? Hard Trends set the Foundation

Daniel Burrus

Nearly every day, an individual with that inkling takes the leap into entrepreneurship, hoping to positively disrupt an industry, make a difference in the world, or become the next Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, to be remembered for something they created that did not exist before them.

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INNOVATING THROUGH CONSTRAINTS

ImagineNation

It’s been almost two and a half years since the Covid-19 pandemic shifted most of us to working virtually and remotely which seriously disrupted most of our business-as-usual behaviours and learning habits.

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The Innovation-Driven Disruption of the Automotive Value Chain (Part 2)

Corporate Innovation

Because of problems such as pollution, climate change and loss of productivity due to long commute times, consumer attitudes towards car ownership and use are changing. In the medium and long term, i.e., the next 5-30 years, these changes have a high probability to negatively impact automakers, their suppliers and their dealers, along with insurance companies, finance companies, and many other industries that are part of the automotive value chain.

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The Innovation-Driven Disruption of the Automotive Value Chain (Part 2)

Corporate Innovation

Because of problems such as pollution, climate change and loss of productivity due to long commute times, consumer attitudes towards car ownership and use are changing. In the medium and long term, i.e., the next 5-30 years, these changes have a high probability to negatively impact automakers, their suppliers and their dealers, along with insurance companies, finance companies, and many other industries that are part of the automotive value chain.

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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. It’s no longer enough to change when you have to.

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Thought Commerce™ – 3 Ways to Recognize It; Why You Should Care

Innovation Excellence

Consumer Innovation Disruption Entrepreneurship Experience Innovation Innovation Innovation Perspectives Intellectual Property Product Innovation change management Ecommerce ideas thought commerce“Thought.” Thought is epically powerful and hugely important. Tony Robbins, Bob Proctor, and before them, Napoleon Hill – all motivational rock stars – consistently drill into their audiences that NOTHING becomes a reality until or after it’s first a thought.

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The Dangers of Legacy Thinking

Daniel Burrus

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. Whether products, services or the marketplace, change is not slowing down, which means legacy technology is becoming outdated faster as well. Legacy Thinking—Changing Your Thinking Changes Your Results.

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Align Your Futureview in Times of Uncertainty

Daniel Burrus

As a leader, you are definitely not the only one going through changes during this pandemic; you likely have employees or coworkers who are in the same boat. It is consistently shocking to me how little we consider the future to be an important topic in business.

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Understanding Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

Daniel Burrus

Technological change is the only constant in today’s business world, disrupting everything from large organizations to small start-ups. Disruption affects everyone, but will you be the disruptor or the disrupted? How can one be successful, much less disruptive, when they themselves do not differentiate between AI, ML, and DL?

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The Cost of Saying “No” Just Got Expensive

Daniel Burrus

We find ourselves dangerously unprepared for a virus that doubles every three days when left to spread, and we have discovered as a human race that being agile and reacting quickly is proving increasingly ineffective as situations change on a daily basis.

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From Game Rooms to Boardrooms, Virtual and Augmented Reality at Work

Daniel Burrus

Now that Facebook has changed their name to Meta to stake their claim on the personal and business use of Virtual Reality (VR) environments — the Metaverse – will this finally establish VR and/or Augmented Reality (AR) as commonplace technologies?

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Risks Can and Should Be Calculated. Here’s the Formula.

Daniel Burrus

They envision something utterly different—something that has the power to disrupt an entire landscape and open people’s eyes to something completely new. Anticipatory entrepreneurs think exponentially about everything, let alone technology and digital disruption.

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Upskilling to drive growth in the new economy

ImagineNation

It seems that, for me, reinvention became a really useful and rewarding habit, especially as it forced me to upskill, to successfully and continuously adapt to the constant barrage of changes over my past thirty years in business.

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Innovation Requires Improvisation

Innovation Excellence

Continue reading → Build Capability Innovation Leadership change Creativity Disruptive Innovation education Entrepreneurship Improvisation Innovation Management Innovation Mindset innovative thinking lean start-ups Start-ups“Innovation attitudes, not just aptitudes, matter. The ethos is as much about culture as competence.”

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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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The future of Digital Banking: it’s time to disrupt!

The BMI Lab Blog

Banking is ripe for disruption. Every step a bank takes is always under close scrutiny since (fundamental) changes could have deep consequences on the overall economy. Nevertheless, banking is changing. And this change is increasing its speed, mostly due to information technologies such as the blockchain, which is already disrupting value chains and business models in the financial sector.

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Create an Intrapreneurship Program and Keep Brilliance In-House

Daniel Burrus

You have heard the term “entrepreneurship,” and perhaps as a business leader or C-suite executive, you fear the possibility of some of your team members leaving your organization to pursue their own great ideas.

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5G Entrepreneurs Creating Billion-Dollar Businesses

Daniel Burrus

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. Implementation of 5G would certainly jump-start those disruptions. Within the next five years. New multibillion-dollar businesses will appear that didn’t exist before due to 5G wireless technology.