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Top Summer Reads 2022: Innovation

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Date27 july 2022
Summer Reads 2022 - Innovation

Top 5 Innovation

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<h3>Interview: Anyone with a keen eye for risk will have business</h3>

<p>Roland van der Vorst has been Head of Innovation at Rabobank Wholesale Rural for two and a half years. Van der Vorst is not a stereotypical banker. He prefers operating at the interface of creativity and strategy. "I have set myself the goal of capitalizing new revenue models and harnessing our current relationships and strengths to innovate. I strive to create things that will benefit us and others alike, playing a positive-sum game rather than a zero-sum one.”</p>
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Interview: Anyone with a keen eye for risk will have business

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<h3>The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business</h3>

<p>Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership -- or worse, disappear completely. And he not only proves what he says, he tells others how to avoid a similar fate.</p>
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The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business

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<h3>Transitioning to Zero-Emission Mobility: Get the Conversation Started&nbsp;</h3>

<p>Transportation and supply chain managers are facing a complex challenge: can they start transitioning to zero-emission mobility at a reasonable cost, without impacting daily operations? It’s an issue they can no longer postpone. Idenitify which challenges are worth solving first.</p>
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TRANSITIONING TO ZERO-EMISSION MOBILITY: GET THE CONVERSATION STARTED

Data and AI in the Boardroom Issue 2: The Quest for New Business Models

Technological and social developments are putting pressure on companies’ revenue models and different fields of expertise. Climate change, digitization, and transparency influence the way we do business, the way we look at data and the way we envision the future. Are you already rethinking your business models?

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Data and AI in the Boardroom Issue 2

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<h3>Act Like a Scientist</h3>

<p>hough they’ve been warned for decades about the dangers of overrelying on gut instinct and personal experience, managers keep failing to critically examine—much less challenge—the ideas their decisions are based on. To correct this problem they need to think and act like scientists. That requires doing five things.</p>
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Act like a scientist

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<h3>The Invincible Company: How to Constantly Reinvent Your Organization with Inspiration From the World's Best Business Models</h3>

<p>The book explains how companies such as Amazon, IKEA, Airbnb, Microsoft, and Logitech, have been able to create immensely successful businesses and disrupt entire industries. At the core of these successes are not just great products and services, but profitable, innovative business models--and the ability to improve existing business models while consistently launching new ones.</p>
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The Invincible Company: How to Constantly Reinvent Your Organization with Inspiration From the World's Best Business Models

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