Disruptive Technology

Disrupting the Dinosaurs

Jon Stein | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Health Care Reform, Startups, Education Reform, Financial Reform, Disruptive Technology, Networking Tips, Startup Companies, Startup Business Tips, Silicon Valley Startups, Business News
Jon Stein

How do you mix the agile nature of a start-up with the slow rhythm of a regulated industry? If you want to disrupt the dinosaurs, you have to be creative -- and patient.

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Democracy and Smart Mobs

Nathan Gardels | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Nicolas Berggruen Institute, Social Media, Twitter, Social Networks, Social Networking, Foreign Affairs, Political Activism, Crowdsourcing, Disruptive Technology, Democracy, Arab Awakening, Facebook, Arab Spring, Nicolas-Berggruen-Institute, Nicolas Berggruen, World News
Nathan Gardels

In our age, the advent of social networks and the transparency of shared networks challenge all hierarchies from monopoly of the mainstream media to professional knowledge protected by credentials, such as doctors, to dictators protected by force.

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Feminism and the Powers of Destruction and Creation

Tanene Allison | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Disruptive Innovation, Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris Attorney General Kamala Harris, Feminism, Occupy Wall Street, Disruptive Technology, Women News
Tanene Allison

It is not oppositional for a woman to be strong and fierce and to attack what is bad and to also be a creative force of beauty and new realities.

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Networking for Innovation

Gary Liberson, PhD | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Clayton Christensen, Innovation, Malcolm Gladwell, Networking, Disruptive Technology, Technology News
Gary Liberson, PhD

Can innovation be learned? YES, but only for those with the right personality.

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The Curse of the Innovator

Brett King | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Innovation, Ge, Apple, Innovator, Bankers, Banking, Change Management, Disruptive Technology, Google, Technology News
Brett King

Companies need innovators to survive, but they need to be powerful enough in the org chart that they're empowered to steer a new course.

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The Two-Pronged Approach To Innovation Your Company Needs

Inder Sidhu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iphone, Cisco, Innovation, Apple, Doing Both, Disruptive Technology, Ipad, Technology News
Inder Sidhu

Cross-posted from Fobes.com: Leadership As companies begin to emerge from the Great Recession, organizations that spent the economic downturn innovat...

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Profiles in Doing Both: How Dyson Blew Away the Vacuum Market

Inder Sidhu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cisco, Dyson, Sustaining Technology, Inder Sidhu, Disruptive Technology, Doing Both, Business News
Inder Sidhu

Prior to 2002, the total size of the vacuum cleaner market in the U.S. was around $4 billion. In many ways, the vacuum cleaning market was stagnant -- ideal for Dyson to shake up with his remarkable cyclonic wind technology.

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A Sunrise Industry: Life Sciences and the Genomics Wave

Fred Hassan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pharmaceutical Industry, Disruptive Technology, Innovation, Life Sciences, Genomics, Health Care, Fred Hassan, Genomics Revolution, Cancer Research, Cancer, Alzheimers, Human Genome Project, Technology News
Fred Hassan

Life sciences will be our country's most important sunrise industry over the next several decades. Because of this sunrise, tens of millions of baby boomers can expect to live longer and live better.

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What Makes a Billion Dollar Idea?

Juliette Powell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Juliette Powell

What's the difference between a Million Dollar Idea and a Billion Dollar Idea? SCALABILITY: "If the design fails when the quantity increases then it d...

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Digital Textbooks, Real Gains for Education

Lisa Petrides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: K-12 Education, Education, California, Open Source Education, Open Education, Free Textbooks, Disruptive Technology, Open Source, Textbooks, Innovation, Open Education Resources, Teachers, Students, Digital Textbooks, Open Education Movement, Iskme, Oer, Politics News
Lisa Petrides

Governor Schwarzenegger has a plan to make California the first state in the nation to provide its schools with free digital textbooks.

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