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DISRUPTIVE THINKING

Michael Michalko

Disruptive Thinking is a concept that is based upon doing the opposite of what is expected/what convention tells you will be successful. One of the best examples I have heard of comes from a talk given by Luke Williams, which illustrates the potential of Disruptive Thinking. Disruptive technology is important to education.

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Organize innovation to fit your strategy & culture.

Leapfrogging

They invest in disruptive technologies but ask existing business units to cannibalize their current products and services using them. It reminded me how important it is to highlight the ultimate organizational design principle: Structure follows strategy. It’s the foundation of organizational design. first appeared on.

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Use Intuition for Innovation Just Like Apple and Target

Leapfrogging

Disruptive Innovators Use Their Gut. Robyn Waters, the former vice president of trend, design and product development, once told me the same thing. Magazine, a leading keynote speaker and the founder of Praxie.com. I get asked a lot about how much to rely on data versus gut instinct when innovating the next big thing.

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Andy Reid Borrows Innovative Ideas. Do you?

BrainZooming

Check out these quotes about Reid’s sources for innovative ideas: “He set up an R&D unit for offensive football, scouring film and tinkering with new play designs. The inspirations include reality TV , improv comedy, business consulting, Dennis the Menace cartoon books, magazine ads, and obscure behavioral laws , just to name a few!

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Five Must-Attend Innovation & Tech Conferences in 2017

IdeaScale

Disrupt 2017. Among the ideas that have come out of it are Dubai’s famous Design District, the first 3-D printed building in the city, a smart power grid, and other ideas that make it not just a fascinating summit to attend, but a place to see innovation implemented in concrete and steel. New York, May 15th to 17th.

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The Profitability of Well-Being: The New Corporate Priority

Business and Tech

Organizations have been plagued in the last two years by major shifts that have disrupted business and threatened their profitability. According to the Corporate Wellness Magazine , at the core of the Great Resignation is dissatisfaction with the conventional work model and inadequate workplace wellness offerings.

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MANAGING AND SHIFTING A BREAKTHROUGH MINDSET

ImagineNation

A recent article in Forbes Magazine stated that “research scientists have long said every thought that enters the mind eventually finds a place in the body where it bears the burden”. To emerge and PULL the present from our current reality toward a future of our own design. Backcast and don’t forecast.