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Center for the Edge

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Work environment redesign
Redesigning the workplace to physically and virtually improve employee performance.

Institutional innovation
Creating new relationship architectures both within and across institutions.

About the center

The Center for the Edge, part of Deloitte LLP, helps senior executives make sense of and profit from emerging opportunities on the edge of business and technology. What is created on the edge of the competitive landscape—in terms of technology, geography,

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demographics, markets—inevitably strikes at the very heart of a business. Our mission is to identify and explore emerging opportunities related to big shifts that aren’t yet on the senior management agenda, but ought to be. While we’re focused on long-term trends and opportunities, we are equally focused on implications for near-term action, the day-to-day environment of executives.

We invite you to learn more about the Center and its unique perspective.

More Featured insights

  • Center for the Edge Insights
    Center for the Edge Insights is a regular compilation of the Center’s insights and views on a number of business issues.
  • Anticipating socialytic disruption
    Looking ahead, social analytics can have a much broader application across all functions of the firm. Learn more.
  • The Shift Index
    The Shift Index consists of 3 indices and 25 metrics designed to make longer-term performance trends more visible and actionable.
  • Pragmatic Pathways: New approaches to organizational change
    Pragmatic Pathways are a set of practical change methodologies to help leaders radically transform their organizations though a series of small moves, smartly made.
  • Scaling Edges
    Pragmatic Pathways is a framework for executives seeking to embark on the difficult, but necessary transformation of innovating at a product and service level to innovating at an institutional level.
  • The Power of Pull
    Pull is becoming an increasingly popular concept. We talk about “pulling” information through major search engines, or accessing movies and news items on demand.

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We invite you to sign up to receive publications from the Center for the Edge which are generally available every 1-2 months. The Center issues working papers, reports and articles on a wide range of topics, from market strategy to cloud computing.

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More Dig deeper

  • Are you ready to lead a different kind of learning?
    HR Times blog post by John Hagel.
  • Deloitte, XPRIZE and Singularity University form alliance and launch the Innovation Partnership Program
    Read more about the alliance and Innovation Partnership Program.
  • The Rewired Customer
    Read John Hagel’s take in this Strategy & Operations Trend report.
  • Welcome to the hardware revolution
    Fortune article by John Hagel and John Seely Brown who discuss the next generation of fantastic hardware.
  • Five ways social software can prevent the unexpected from ruining your business
    DU Press essay by John Hagel on the benefits of Social Software.
  • A simple strategy for winning the talent war
    CFO Journal article by John Hagel who discusses the war to find an retain talent.
  • In the news
    Recent media coverage.

More Watch, listen, learn

  • Social data and business performance: Strengthening the connection
    View the archive of this April 30 TMT Dbriefs webcast.

Meet our leaders

  • Get to know the Center's leaders
  • EdgePerspectives.com
  • Blog: Harvard Business Review - big shift

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