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Assets to access

Assets to access

Assets to access is the shift from owning goods to using and sharing goods: you replace having an asset with access to a service.

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Exponential organizations: How to create them and why they spell success

Exponential organizations: How to create them and why they spell success

Exponential organizations occur when tech is leveraged for a disproportionally large outcome. Here's how you can make it happen for your own business.

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Digitalization and intelligent business

Digitalization and intelligent business

Digitalization affects all aspects of traditional business. Moving from efficient to intelligent systems is an important theme in business model innovation.

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Meet the Global Progress Dashboard

Meet the Global Progress Dashboard

The Global Progress Dashboard is a 'world map' that allows you to explore the most relevant data related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Consume to create

Consume to create

Creative activity surrounds us as the paradigm shifts from consumer to create, where passive consumers have morphed into active creators.

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Scarcity to abundance

Scarcity to abundance

Creative, technological, and economic growth is creating abundance in the developed world. Will there be a paradigm shift from scarcity to abundance?

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Push to pull

Push to pull

The paradigm shift from push to pull proposes instead of pushing products and services onto people, we could start by pulling in demand.

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Universal to unique

Universal to unique

Standardized services allow equal access to opportunities but what if products, organizations, and institutions shifted focus from universal to unique?

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Social change requires slow entrepreneurship

Social change requires slow entrepreneurship

Slow entrepreneurship requires a long-term strategy and patience. Social start-ups can use slow entrepreneurship to stimulate creativity and energy.

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Disruptive technologies

Disruptive technologies

Society today is characterized by disruptive technologies. In this article, we tackle our own understanding of this rapid pace of technological development.

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The future of learning is play

The future of learning is play

The future of learning is playful learning. Find out how education experts are embracing this unorthodox, but highly effective, method of learning.

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The golden opportunity of paradigm shifts

The golden opportunity of paradigm shifts

Innovation leadership can create new business models by finding opportunities in paradigm shifts. What paradigm shifts are playing out in your field?

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