Digital Tonto

JUNE 9, 2024

Then Susan Blackmore introduced the concept of temes, elemental bits of technology, like lines of code sitting in Github, that are competing to replicate in order to survive in future technological artifacts. The concept led to the idea of memes, elemental bits of culture that compete to be replicated in the marketplace of ideas.

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 11, 2023

Because digital technology has become so pervasive, offering a substantial architecture that lends itself to tweaking, we’ve lost the plot. The truth is that, for innovation, generosity is often a competitive advantage. We need to move away from hype and focus on impact.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 29, 2020

I've been reading a fair number of books and articles lately about digital transformation. If this sounds a bit dire, try reading the book entitled The Big Nine by Amy Webb. While there is some benefit to centralized planning and control, there are also benefits to competition.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 3, 2020

Here does lie a true competitive component and so many organizations seek to apply someone else’s practice so they can end up as “same” practice. We are facing such an unprecedented change and technology is re-writing the rule book in everything we are going to do. Business & technology specification.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

If you have a project or team needing leadership and management, book an appointment with me now and we can speak about how I could help you. Competitive disadvantage: A delayed or failed project can allow competitors to move ahead, capturing market share and innovation opportunities. Book an appointment with Nick Leverage A.I.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There are great many companies and leaders that obsess about their market share, competitors, or technological prowess. If your technology doesn’t create value for customers, they won’t buy it. And, if you don’t have customers, the reason really isn’t your competition, it’s you not providing them with enough value.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 10, 2023

How can you differenitate your business from the competition? Airbnb’s “Experiences” Feature : Airbnb expanded beyond accommodation by offering “Experiences” where users can book unique activities hosted by locals. Let’s look at some examples of lateral thinking in business strategy and innovation.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Innovation must be rooted in improving competitive advantage, customer needs, employee expectations and now, sustainability. Tiffani Bova is the global growth evangelist at Salesforce and the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book GROWTH IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business. Tiffani Bova.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

From its beginnings in a garage selling books over the internet, it’s become a technological and social behemoth redefining not just book sales, but commerce, upending entire industries and putting pressure on entire sectors of the economy to innovate or else. Amazon is everywhere, and innovation is why.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 7, 2018

Innovation has had a bigger brother moving into the house next door; Digital Technology and between them, they have been busily knocking the walls down, to share the future going forward. Data specific, technology driven, innovation invigorating. The two have become interlinked, you seem to always need the one to respond to the other.

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Daniel Burrus

JULY 6, 2017

It starts now—if your Futureview is based on the new opportunities offered by transformational technology advances, it will be more upbeat and optimistic, and your actions in the present will reflect that outlook. Pre Order Daniel Burrus’ Anticipatory Organziation Book on Amazon. Available now on Amazon.com .

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

So let me tell you what this is all about, and I will describe this with heavy referencing from Geoffrey Moore’s book “ Dealing with Darwin “ Without a doubt, one of my favourite books in how it helped me piece together a large part of my dynamic innovation fitness puzzle. First, you have the internal view.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Six years ago, when Amazon sold primarily print books, company research showed that customers liked e-books—a new product that threatened Amazon’s core business. They did just that, and by 2011, e-books sales surpassed sales of print books. In fact, by April 2011, Amazon became the world’s largest e-book retailer.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

When you think we are on a roll, we are making that transformation in technology, systems, new organizational designs, you are suddenly stopped in your tracks. They make up vital business processes that were designed years ago but not for the technology onslaught of technology we are witnessing. We spend more time on compliance.

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Drawing insights from his book Why Data Science Projects Fail , Evan explores the biggest blockers to AI success, the importance of strategic alignment, and how companies can avoid wasting millions on AI initiatives that dont deliver business impact. While the technology sounded promising but overall, it was a poor investment.

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Drawing insights from his book Why Data Science Projects Fail , Evan explores the biggest blockers to AI success, the importance of strategic alignment, and how companies can avoid wasting millions on AI initiatives that dont deliver business impact. While the technology sounded promising but overall, it was a poor investment.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 5, 2018

The new game, as demonstrated by a number of emerging disrupters, is captured in the book Unscaled and discussed at length in this nice blog post - one I wish I could have written. There are a couple of overlapping points here, but the main idea is that scale as a competitive weapon is increasingly passe.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Why your company needs to think about crowdsourcing with the competition…. Understandably, the increase in competition and market saturation is seen by those who experience it as a direct threat to their organizational legitimacy. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” Sleeping With the Enemy.

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Innovators Alliance

JULY 17, 2024

Earlier this year we updated our IA Member Check-in process to include a question that asked members about their recommended entrepreneurial books, podcasts and tools. Genres: Technology, AI. On Competition by Michael E. Moore Genres: Business, Entrepreneurship, Management, Technology, Business Leadership.

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 4, 2018

I have been publishing a list of top trends since 1983, as well as speaking and writing about their future impact, and if you have read any of my seven books or thousands of articles over the decades, you know they have been highly accurate. Each is growing at an increasingly exponential rate. 14 Mobile Banking and Payments.

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Collective Innovation

OCTOBER 8, 2016

The Technology Adoption Cycle is based on the diffusion process which was originally developed for agricultural means but adapted and found to work just as well to identify how a new technology crosses the chasm from being unknown to being widely adopted.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Brought to prominence by Professor Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma , this important theory provides an explanation as to why large, established companies eventually get overtaken by smaller ones, and it introduced the concept of disruptive innovation. What is it: Every company knows about brainstorming.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. His latest book, What a Unicorn Knows , is available on Amazon and reveals the secrets to building high growth startups. Here’s a Q&A with Matt that highlights the key points in the book.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 6, 2017

I have set myself a goal to read at least 25 books this year, which roughly translates to about a book every couple of weeks. I also did not just want to read these books but also absorb and internalise the content of these books. So, here is the first book that I finished reading this year – The Growth Gears.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 1, 2017

Today’s technology makes people even less curious because they: Rely on instantly gratifying one-mouse-click answers, instead of exploring a bookstore or a library and being exposed to a diversity of information. Putting collaboration before competition, and autonomous motivation before rewards. books, articles, documentaries, etc.)

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Innovation Walk

JUNE 7, 2019

When we want to book a hotel we automatically go to our favourite online travel agency (OTA), also known as a booking portal. Sometimes there are deals on a certain hotel and you immediately book to save money. Here I share my thoughts on 2 rising travel innovators and the advantages of direct bookings.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Now more than ever, it’s easier to get distracted by what the competition is doing because it’s all visible online. I believe the biggest risk to any business isn’t what your competition is doing, it’s getting distracted by it in a way that tempts you to change your own authentic mission and dilute your own secret sauce.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 23, 2019

For most of us, it’s now impossible to think of the business world without all of the technology and the services built on top of these two innovations. While information technology and the Internet still continue to drive economic growth and disrupt certain industries, we’re on the verge of the next wave. A short primer on innovation.

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Idea to Value

MAY 27, 2019

The mindset of competition and customer satisfaction in known areas is different from that of creating new business models. These days incumbents are being upset by upstarts running rings around them all the time, as entrepreneurs from a new generation encroach on a clientele from a new generation with the technology of a new generation.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 2, 2023

That’s because there’s never been more uncertainty – around technology, the economy, global-political turmoil, and just about everything else. In my latest book, Experiential Intelligence , I highlight the importance of understanding and developing your team’s mindsets, abilities, and know-how.

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Keeping up—with technology, with the competition, with anything in business or life—is what some would call a fool’s game. Asking these questions enables you to go beyond your competition and get off the treadmill of keeping up. These are trends in technology and innovation that show no signs of slowing down.

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Planview

APRIL 6, 2023

Fresh off the pain of my poor Boilermakers loss in the NCAA tournament, I reflect on what a startling competitive disadvantage you’re at if your competitor can score buckets at three times your team’s speed. Speed of software delivery is either a competitive advantage or a startling disadvantage in the digital age.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2019

Each month I’m tapping into the industry expertise and experience of one of Plug and Play’s 15 industry verticals to highlight the disruptive trends, technologies and companies shaping the future. Amidi also says that “the future of travel involves seamless traveler experiences enabled by various legacy and new technology platforms.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Here lie a true competitive component and so many organizations seek to apply someone else’s practice, so they can end up as “same” practice. We are facing such an unprecedented change and technology is re-writing the rule book in everything we are going to do. Moving from “Best Practice” to “Next Practice”.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 14, 2015

He argued that companies, and entire industries, can be “disrupted” by unforeseen competitors – new entrants that offer up products or technologies at a fraction of the cost yet with equal or greater benefits compared to current options. Christensen’s theory is fundamentally about technologies and products. The result?

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Imaginatik

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The CEO was sponsoring a workshop on the future of payments – its dizzying array of emerging new standards and technologies as well as the dark horse disruptive potential of blockchain technologies. A little over a year ago , I was in a board meeting of a large consumer-based financial services firm. Well, that got my attention.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2023

I've been leading innovation work for close to 20 years, writing about it on this blog and in my book (Relentless Innovation). We felt that to remain competitive, larger companies needed to recapture the sense of wonder and adventure that working in the "front end" of innovation would create. I think a re-introduction is in order.

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