Disruption

The Business Innovation Factory (BIF) is pleased to announce that Founder and Chief Catalyst, Saul Kaplan has been named a Founding Member of The IEEE Fair Trade Data Initiative, a collaboration to develop a standards framework governing the fair trade of human and personal data.

It’s beyond me how so many public and private sector leaders have ignored the elephant in the room for so long but one thing is clear, no one can ignore Amazon any longer. The question of what to do about it looms large for every leader.

"The point is, you're gonna be able to do a lot by just being in a space that has intelligence, that has connectivity, that benefits from machine learning."

If a business model is a network of capabilities woven together into a sustainable financial model, a system is a network of business models that have learned to collaborate. Until organizations learn how to do this, integration in our education system won’t work, and innovations that fundamentally transform outcomes will remain localized and dispersed

As BIF Members, AFIT will access our network of institutional business model innovators in education, health care, and public services to take advantage of opportunities to connect to a steady flow of business model design ideas, practices, and tools.

Listen in as Rita J. King discusses ways we can all tap into our own innate creativity, what we can do about a shifting technological future, and the power of thinking outside our own traditional silos to better ourselves personally, professionally, and for the organizations, we belong to.

One of the most prolific thinkers in the disruptive space, Ray Wang, the Founder of Constellation Research, stops by to discuss the landscape of our technological future and what it means to us as both individuals and members of organizations and communities.

As new business models emerge, we believe that those that put and maintain DEI at their core are best positioned to transform and improve the experiences and lives of their consumers.

President of Western Governors University, Scott Puslipher is a true transformation agent who doesn't accept what is and who imagine what could be.

It is not best practices, but next practices that will sustain your organization on a strong growth trajectory. While you continue to pedal the bicycle of today’s business model make sure that no less than 10% of your time and resources is dedicated to exploring new business models and developing next practices.

The idea of the MinuteClinic is as much a mindset problem as it is a financial threat. The model runs counter to everything a physician has been trained for. Another problem - most physicians don’t want to be businesspeople and this is a real business conundrum.