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Taking a Look at the Future of Oil and Gas Industry

Strategy Driven

What is more, the adoption of new technologies will facilitate oil and gas operations. Despite major turbulences (like the one of 2014), OPEC has successfully managed the supply/demand in the past. We should never underestimate the potential for technological innovation. The Future of Oil and Gas Industry is Now.

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Is Entrepreneurship As Popular As We Think?

The Horizons Tracker

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. Hype run wild. Are we all entrepreneurs now? in 1985 to just 5.3% A decline in disruption.

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Crowdfunding’s Big-Bang Moment

Harvard Business Review

In a recent HBR article, Paul Nunes and I introduced the term Big Bang Disruption to signify innovations that, thanks to rapidly advancing technology, come out of the box both better and cheaper than alternative solutions already in the marketplace. We call this the victory of “innovation by combine” over traditional “innovation by design.”.

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Why the Rest of the World Can’t Free Ride on Europe’s GDPR Rules

Harvard Business Review

the approach to digital privacy has been more piecemeal: in effect, it is predicated in part on the idea that the ability of companies to collect, analyze, sell and monetize user data with minimal restrictions is the basis for an innovative digital industry; new users are drawn by free services and companies make money from the data collected.

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What the CEO of the “New” Google Needs to Do Next

Harvard Business Review

As the new CEO of Google, he has been handed the keys to one of the world’s most valuable brands , the top website to open to get to other websites , the most popular operating system for smartphones , and the most desirable employer for engineering or business graduates. I am excited for Pichai.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

What traditional investors don’t like about any of this is the regulatory uncertainty; the high valuations and over-capitalization; the lack of control over financials, strategy, and operations; and the lack of business use-cases. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S.

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Use Your Customers as Ethnographers

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to discovering unmet customer needs and innovation opportunities, there’s no substitute for in-the-moment, in-context observation for making meaning out of the complex weave of emotion and rationality that drives consumer behavior. “And what we learned was sobering. And you don’t need a Ph.D.