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What’s Lost When Data Systems Don’t Communicate

Harvard Business Review

In every industry, many large corporations have teams that help bridge outdated, disconnected systems, and databases. Without them, there is no way companies can upgrade their technology without causing disruption to their operations.

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My own transformative dynamics of disruption

Paul Hobcraft

It is a very disrupting, disturbing world. We have to push this into more of the cross-sector cascading effects of disruptions. This becomes a critical point of any dynamics of future disruption. The age of “technology attack.” Technological disruption is altering all we do.

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Why the Tech Industry Won’t Disrupt Health Care

Harvard Business Review

At first glance, it looks like health care in the United States is ripe for disruption. But for many reasons, the incumbents — established health systems — will be extremely hard to displace. Instead, the winners will be health systems that team up with digital tech companies.

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Bringing Blockchain into Real Life: Practical Applications for Disruptive Technology

Daniel Burrus

At this point, those who do understand what cryptocurrency is realize the disruptive nature of the concept and how it can upend the banking and financial industry. But the disruption from the concept of a digital wallet and cryptocurrency runs far deeper than just money. Disrupting the Real Estate Industry.

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Why ‘system transformation’ is likely a pipe dream

Christensen Institute

I can’t count the number of times people at an education conference have approached me and said something to the effect of, “But how do we transform the education system?” or “We need to focus on system transformation” or “How do we scale system transformation?” I get why they share these sentiments with me.

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Phasing the Energy Transition by Technology and Horizon Management

Paul Hobcraft

For this to happen, our focus today should be fully on low-carbon technologies and their technical realization. Disruptive innovation coming from the 2nd Horizon and 3. Disruptive innovation coming from the 2nd Horizon and 3. Transformative innovation from technologies has yet to fully emerge. Sustaining innovation, 2.

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My own transformative dynamics of disruption

Paul Hobcraft

It is a very disrupting, disturbing world. We have to push this into more of the cross-sector cascading effects of disruptions. This becomes a critical point of any dynamics of future disruption. The age of “technology attack.” Technological disruption is altering all we do.