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The Travel & Hospitality Industry is Being Disrupted, Again.

Leapfrogging

Airbnb disrupted hotels. Now big travel and hospitality companies are going after the next disruptive innovation themselves before getting blindsided yet again. As part of a new series of articles I’m writing called Everything Transformed , I’m focusing on the widespread disruption of just about every industry on the planet.

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Continuous Improvement and Breakthrough Innovation: Why You Need Both

IdeaScale

The British cycling team used incremental improvements to go from also-rans to winning seven of ten gold medals in the 2008 Olympics. Major disruptions often happen because something (like people’s patience with the way things are) breaks. It doesn’t just work in business, either. Breakthrough Innovation.

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Your Guide to Incremental Innovation: Examples and Lessons from Global Brands

Qmarkets

Disruptive innovations like these have a legendary status that is richly deserved, but it is actually incremental innovations that are more likely to provide sustainable fuel to drive ROI for your innovation programs year in, year out. What do you think about when you hear the word innovation ? It’s low risk.

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When tough times are ahead, you should double down on innovation

Idea to Value

Downturns are prime territory for disruption. But, more importantly for us, economic downturns are always a great time for disruptive innovation. Disruptive innovation usually starts from the low-end of the of market , which means that these innovators are uniquely positioned for tough times. But who are these companies?

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

However, by developing an innovation strategy that anticipates a downturn, you can help your enterprise weather the storm and even uncover lucrative ways to gain a competitive edge. It’s estimated that a loss of more than $2 trillion in world-wide economic growth occurred between the second quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009.

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Workplace Conflict: Statistics That Reveal Its Cost

CMOE

For example, a 2008 international study by CPP Global (the publisher of the Myers-Briggs Assessment) defined conflict as “any workplace disagreement that disrupts the flow of work.” Here, conflict might not always disrupt work; it might be an opportunity to respect each party’s perspective and search for various win-win resolutions.

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The New Game Or Is It? Asset Orchestration

Paul Hobcraft

The lighter you are, the more likely you are to be more flexible and adaptive to respond to more disruptive challenges being faced by industries that are undergoing the shift to being more “digitally enabled” Alibaba is very much a good asset orchestrator. One highly relevant observation.

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