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Educating Executives for Disruption

Jeremy Jurgens World Economic Forum
April 28, 2014
Much has been written about how technology is transforming education. Still, more has been written about how technology is driving disruption in business. Less explored is a question posed by the intersection of those ideas: how can technology help business leaders to educate themselves about potentially disruptive opportunities and threats?
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Forget Innovation, Who Is Your Chief Disruption Officer?

Patrick Hanlon Thinktopia
April 08, 2014
I am sitting in the back seat of a taxicab in New York City. The traffic is Midtown, stuck bumper to bumper.
“Everything is turned upside down!” the cabbie shouts, pumping his arm up and down in the air. “Five years ago it was not like this!” he cries.

The taxi driver is not talking about Midtown Manhattan traffic. He is from Alexandria. Not the Alexandria we know on the Washington Beltway, but the Alexandria in Egypt, named after Alexander the Great.
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Global Learning Revolution at the Nexus

Subra Suresh Carnegie Mellon University
January 24, 2014
At the nexus of the four topics contemplated this week at the World Economic Forum at Davos—disruptive innovation, inclusive growth, society’s new expectations, and preparing for a world of nine billion—sits the idea of a Global Learning Revolution. Technology is disrupting traditional models of classroom education. But it also has the power to offer billions around the globe access to a first-class education and the hope for economic advancement.  Business plus government plus academia plus NGOs—working together—have the opportunity to bring this global learning revolution to life.

Facebook, Games and the Power of Failure

Rina Onur Peak Games
January 24, 2014
Disruptive innovators must be willing to fail. This a lesson you pick up from spending time in Palo Alto, California – that little corner of the world from where so many world-changing companies have emerged. There is a profound sense of freedom there that comes from a cultural belief that it’s okay to try and fail, because you can always try again. I believe we need more of that freedom, not only in my country, Turkey, but across Europe.
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2014: Year Of The Open Ecosystem

Greg Satell
January 08, 2014
The most salient aspect of technology is its power to disrupt.  The important innovations are the ones that change our world so profoundly that the previous order becomes not only untenable, but unthinkable.
Yet the true impact begins not with invention, but adoption.  That’s when the second and third-order effects kick in.  After all, the automobile was important not because it ended travel by horse, but because it created suburbs, gas stations and shopping malls.
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