juan alcacio

A new generation of Asian entrepreneurs is bringing their creativity, innovation, and digital expertise to market, assisting the region in becoming a disruptive force on the global stage. Live commerce, which combines fast purchases with entertainment, is revolutionizing China's retail industry, and new applications are making users' lives easier and more intertwined. A relatively young…

We are in an era of massive disruptions in markets, media, management approaches and business models. These disruptions are being caused by rapid technological changes on the one hand and tectonic shifts in customer preferences and societal behaviour on the other. Marketing knowledge and practices have to advance at a significantly higher pace to address…

Established firms typically focus on their most profitable customers or classes of customers and are slow to adopt new business processes and/or technologies, which makes them prone to fail to address the needs of non-customers in their market space. Smaller, more innovative companies enter the market with fewer resources than their established competitors to address…

Disruptive Urbanism examines how different forms and modes of the so called "sharing economy" are manifesting in cities and regions throughout the world, and how policy makers are responding to these disruptions. The emergence of the so called "sharing economy" and the "disruptive technologies" have profound implications for urban policy and governance. Initial expectations that…

A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform--from a legendary leader in innovation . . . Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations. We need a cure, and we need it now. Harvard…

Brillant und unkonventionell führt uns der berühmte Religionsphilosoph Alan Watts durch die Lehren der großen spirituellen Traditionen. Es geht um das Vergängliche und das Göttliche, um unsere selbstbetriebene Verblendung und wahre Erkenntnis und pures Einssein, um die verschiedenen Kosmologien und das sich darum nicht scherende Spiel des Kosmos, um Achtsamkeit, echte Bewusstheit und Meditation. Alan…

Wer ein Ziel erreichen will, muss in der Lage sein, zu jeder Zeit eine ganz bestimmte Frage zu beantworten: Wo stehe ich im Moment in Bezug auf mein Ziel? Das gilt auch für Teams in Unternehmen. Chefs können ihre Mitarbeiter nur dann effektiv führen, wenn sie jederzeit eine präzise Diagnose bekommen, wie es aktuell läuft.…

"Technological change is at the core of all major disruptions in human history, and revolutions, wars, and general development is regularly connected to some sort of technological change. However, not all development is beneficial. While technology has fuelled great innovations and rapid development, the notion of sustainable development has gained promise because we now experience…

Finalist for the 2014 Prometheus Award. Six months have passed since the release of Nexus 5. The world is a different, more dangerous place. In the United States, the terrorists – or freedom fighters – of the Post-Human Liberation Front use Nexus to turn men and women into human time bombs aimed at the President…

This book offers the evidence-based insights into the ethical considerations surrounding disruptive technologies. In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology, where breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of Things, and bioinformatics have revolutionized our world, a critical need arises to reassess our ethical frameworks. This need has given birth to the thriving field…