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Mapping disruption across industries will look like a lava lamp
Disruption will not be consistent, nor global. It will be patchy, opportunistic and will depend to a huge extent on culture. It will look like a lava lamp. Read more…
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Is the future of retail heading for a cold, dark place?
Few would have thought that retail would become interesting, at least not in our world. Even fewer would have thought that retail would become one of the most disruptive and disrupted arenas on earth. Corner Read more…
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Fortnite’s in-game purchase strategy is disrupting the gaming sector
(Reuters) – To see the storm that online video game Fortnite has unleashed on the world, just visit Jett Sacher in Brooklyn. The 13-year-old spends an hour or two every day on the game with Read more…
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Disruption, 5G and avoiding those Kodak moments
Somewhat counter-intuitively, embracing disruption is likely to be the best strategy for established telcos as 5G draws nigh. The web is littered with stories of companies that have been disrupted, some even before they turned Read more…
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FinTech is so disruptive it might end up disrupting itself
We are generally happy to state publically that mainstream drones, AI, VR, 5G and almost any other technology that has graced slideshows around the world is still some way off. Yet there is one whose Read more…
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What does the future hold for higher education – disruption? Probably!
Is there a future for higher education? There is probably no other industry or social institution quite as invested in the future than education, yet its struggles with self-reinvention manifest as a ticking time bomb, Read more…
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The first step to disruptive innovation isn’t technology
True innovation is more complicated than cutting-edge tech, open labs and hackathons – it asks fundamental questions about your purpose and value in the eyes of the customer. I cannot believe the end of 2017 Read more…
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Tech giants take over Sydney’s CBD as banks head to the burbs
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Global technology titans including Amazon.com, LinkedIn and Expedia are moving into Sydney‘s central business district, providing a commercial property fillip just as Australia’s record housing boom starts to tire. The tech invasion Read more…
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AI holds the key to solving disruptive demographic shifts
Development of AI is happening in parallel to massive and disruptive demographic shifts. That’s good, Deep Learning Group founder Dr. Adrian Kaehler tells Disruptive.Asia, because AI will be the solution we need to handle that Read more…
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How the shift to electric cars in China and India could disrupt the petrol industry
SINGAPORE/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Demand for petrol in Asia may peak much earlier than expected as millions of people in China and India buy electric vehicles over the next decade, threatening wrenching change for the Read more…