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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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New value networks: The missing piece in the K–12 disruption equation

Christensen Institute

Disruptive innovations need three enablers: a technology, an organizational model, and a value network. When Disrupting Class was published in 2008, it predicted that by the fall of 2019, 50% of all high school courses would be delivered online in some form or fashion. What are the necessary elements for disruption?

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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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Successful office investments in disruptive times

Norbert Bol

Looking at the amount of capital that is being raised by the tech-companies, it is to be expected that the relative traditional real estate is up for disruption. This could make it possible to disrupt the ownership structure and the traditional relationship between the owner, tenant and other stakeholders. Norbert Bol. Literature.

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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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Is Disruption the New Normal?

Moves the Needle

Make no mistake, the pandemic disrupted business. The world has endured 3 massive economic disruptions in the first 2 decades of the 21st century, including the dotcom bust and 9/11, the Great Recession of 2008, and the current pandemic-caused economic devastation. Is disruption itself the new normal?

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Are you Ready to use this Economic Downturn to Become Recession Proof?

Daniel Burrus

But as I have mentioned to clients and colleagues many times over the course of my career: Agility will never set you ahead of disruption; it will only give you momentary peace of mind. A brief example of an organization that capitalized on the 2008 recession in remarkable ways is Lego. Opportunity is everywhere — always !

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