Top 10 Disappearing Futures
The World Future Society has gone to members and friends, once again, to crowd-source their informed and eye-opening insights about the future— in this case, the future we may not see.
Read MoreBigger, better, stronger, faster: How IBM’s Watson upends Moore’s Law
IBM’s Watson hits the cloud, kicking aside old baseline theory and closing the distance between memory and processing.
Read More3D printing: Don’t believe the hype
Although the cost of 3D printers is plunging, here’s why you should think twice before buying one of the devices.
Read MoreHealth Orgs Dooming Their “Innovation” To Failure
In my role introducing patient relationship management systems, I’ve had the opportunity to speak with and observe many “Innovation” organizations that have been set up in virtually every health system in the country (and most health plans and pharma as well). The innovation groups have been established to respond to the daunting changes their organizations are facing. Unfortunately, the way they are being setup are practically guaranteeing they will fail to prepare organizations for healthcare’s trillion dollar disruption.
Read MoreHealthcare’s Trillion-Dollar Disruption – Lessons in Disruptive Technology
The changes the industry faces will be neither smooth nor linear. A period of intense turbulence will produce more losers and winners than any industry transformation in recent memory. Cross-industry competition (healthcare versus retail versus technology versus others) will erase traditional boundaries and generate exciting new value propositions for patients, payers, and physicians.
Read MoreChina builds world’s fastest supercomputer
China has built the world’s fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the previous US record holder and underlining the country’s rise as a science and technology powerhouse.
Read MoreBanking faces disruptive tech challenge from players like Google, Apple
AFTER stopping at a petrol station to refill his late-model car, a senior banker provokes an angry response from an attendant at the pay counter when he waves his smartphone over an Eftpos terminal.
Read MoreThe one thing that makes a company last forever
The one thing that makes a company last forever Quartz Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Charles O’Reilly calls it “organizational ambidexterity,” the ability of a company to manage its current business while simultaneously preparing…
Read More“Disruption redefined” – why business is ready for the CDO
We are beginning to see the emergence of a new member of the board: the chief disruption officer (CDO), who can act as a channel and a focus for bold approaches to strategic decision-making.
Read MoreYour Phone is Now Your Bank: Are You Ready for Disruptive Innovation?
Does your bank fit inside your cell phone? If not, it soon will. And if today’s banks don’t come to terms with this fact very soon (as in starting yesterday), they may no longer exist in 10 or even five years. How’s that for disruptive innovation?
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