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How can we Combat the Peter Principle?

Destination Innovation

’ Furthermore they found that ‘workers who never collaborate with others—the so-called lone wolves—fare particularly poorly when they are promoted into managerial roles. If you do not promote your top performers you might lose them to competition. But it leads to weaker managers. We need to be on our guard against it.

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New Business Designs can be delivered through a Business Ecosystem Approach.

Paul Hobcraft

The value of opening up and embracing Ecosystems in design and thinking is that you can attract diverse expertise and knowledge into fresh partnerships and collaborations that can piece together radically different value propositions and shift competitors’ positioning.

Design 147
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Collaborate With a Strategic Alliance to Find Success

Daniel Burrus

Traditionally, the concept of success through collaboration in the business world has been focused on eliminating competition to find success in ways that benefit the industry the competitors share. Collaboration for the Greater Good. Instead of competing, they were collaborating and forming a strategic alliance.

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Constructing the innovation mandate

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation is a critical source of future competitive advantage. It is our ability to consistently capture, build and develop new ideas within organizations or in open collaborations with others that have a direct effect on revenue growth and the ability to provide future sustainability.

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The UBS Future of Finance Global Finals

100%Open

Working very closely and collaboratively with UBS, we launched The UBS Future of Finance Challenge on 12th August 2015, an open competition for entrepreneurs and technology startups around the world. Three winners of the UBS Future of Finance Challenge were selected from over 600 participants from 52 countries.

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Accelerating Sustainable Energy Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

It was from a white paper “ Accelerating Sustainable Energy Innovation , released in May 2018 and prepared in collaboration with KPMG. Mainstream public procurement of pre-commercial energy innovation to assist early-stage forward-looking technologies and allow for experiments from competitive providers.

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Understanding the Building Blocks of Hospitality

Business and Tech

Connecting the operational knowledge with a particular interest area — such as finance, marketing, technology, or sales — will help build a strong career. Organizations must prepare to adopt and implement such technologies to stay competitive.

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