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The Future Of Business Travel

The Horizons Tracker

Where previously workers would meet face-to-face, the shutdown in travel and of workplaces has forced so many of us to converse virtually instead. With conferences also heading online, the business travel market has ground to a halt as people have learned to communicate without jumping on a plane to do so.

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How Trade Competition Boosts Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

For all the narrative around the disruptive nature of innovation, it’s fairly rare for innovators to fully capture the value of their invention. It has long been argued that this mismatch disincentivizes innovation, which in itself creates a mismatch between the potential benefits we could see from an innovation and the reality.

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Is Virtual Tourism A Viable Future For The Travel Industry?

The Horizons Tracker

The tourism industry has ground to a halt as a result of the coronavirus pandemic that has severely limited international travel. The pandemic has been the making of many technologies, and new research from Augusta University explores whether it might do likewise for virtual travel. first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Spotting Where Innovations Are In The Diffusion Lifecycle

The Horizons Tracker

In 1962 Everett Rogers famously described the journey innovations go on as they travel from obscurity to mass market success and through to obsolescence. It’s a process that remains largely observed to this day and being able to spot where an innovation is on the lifecycle is pretty valuable. Spreading change.

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How Innovation Is Completely Different in Established Organizations than in Startups

Leading Blog

Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation. Optimizing innovation: Improving the past.

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Worst. Innovation Quote. Ever.

LDRLB

Here’s my candidate for the worst innovation quote ever: Now, to be fair, it’s actually a paraphrasing of Emerson. Nevertheless, it reflects a very common innovation misconception – that it’s all about the idea. Innovation is the process of idea management. Or, to be more accurate, a misquote.

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F1 Racing and the Insurance and Finance Industry: A Comparison of Trends and Challenges

N2Growth Blog

Formula 1 racing is an industry built on speed, innovation, and teamwork. These roles typically involve significant travel and on-site work, making implementing remote work options challenging. They must adapt to changing market conditions and shifting consumer demands.

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