Business Briefing: we’re overusing and underestimating ‘disruption’
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Disruption might be a buzz word at the moment but it shouldn't be ignored. It may be impossible to predict but businesses can have stakes in creating it.
Melbourne is being transformed by high-rise apartments, with some even being purpose-built for the Airbnb market.
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If the sharing economy is here to stay, planners and designers must respond with imagination to spread the positive effects of the tourism economy for the benefit of residents as well as tourists.
New York, Berlin and Paris have all suffered some ill effects from online rental platforms – without proper regulations, Rio could follow.
Rather than create regulatory frameworks that allow innovations to thrive, governments have created hurdles to transformative applications like Uber or Airbnb.
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Carlo Ratti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Governments too often hinder change, when instead they should aim to foster an organic innovation ecosystem. This is more about bottom-up innovation than top-down schemas.
The generation of designers broke out of their studios and took the business world by storm. Their skills could also be turned to bigger world problems.
The idea of a sharing platform that renders the financial warehouse obsolete is fanciful.
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Amy Auster, Australian Centre for Financial Studies
Financial services are being digitally disrupted, but the idea of a financial “sharing” economy replacing traditional banking ignores reality.
A third generation of Online Marketplaces that combine workflow and networks are changing the underlying economics of many industries.
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The term ‘post-tourist’ is commonly used to refer to a new breed of travellers, those who eschew common ‘hotspots’, immersing themselves in “local culture” for an extended period of time. And yet …
Is Airbnb fundamentally changing our cities?
Owen Lin
Two visions of the ‘new economy’, one based on environmental and social justice values, the other on disruptive technologies, are coming together to challenge the status quo.
Is this the future of labor?
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Some theorists suggest that such platforms are making our world more efficient by natural selection. The reality is a little more complicated.
Uber drivers have been classified as taxi drivers and will have to register for GST. Uber says they will challenge the decision.
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