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Center for the Edge

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Institutional innovation
Creating new relationship architectures both within and across institutions

The Shift Index
Measuring the forces of long term change

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.
  • Helping make the invisible visible with socialytics
    Short takes on analytics post by John Hagel where he discusses socialytic disruption and the performance of teams. In this blog he uncovers how socialytics was applied to track patterns of interaction for better decision-making.
  • Anticipating socialytic disruption
    The nascent field of social analytics, or “socialytics,” seeks to integrate social software and big data analytics to create more valuable insight from unstructured information. Looking ahead, social analytics can have a much broader application across all functions of the firm. Learn more.
  • Performance Ecosystems
    Businesses are already in ecosystems today – whether by design or not. Yet for many, these ecosystems have evolved without much attention or planning. This paper discusses four different structures of ecosystems, characterized along with six key management practices that can improve performance via ecosystems.
  • Scaling Edges
    Increased globalization and rapid advancements in technology, collectively referred to as The Big Shift, are profoundly altering our economy and creating new market. In order to thrive in a post-Big Shift world, today’s companies should consider how they move from innovating at a product and service level to innovating at an institutional level. Pragmatic Pathways is a framework for executives seeking to embark on this difficult, but necessary transformation.
  • 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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More Dig deeper

  • Deloitte, XPRIZE and Singularity University form alliance and launch the Innovation Partnership Program
    XPRIZE, Singularity University and Deloitte have joined hands to drive innovation across multiple industries and business sectors through the Innovation Partnership Program (IPP)
  • Business Trends 2013
    Strategy & Operation's inaugural trends report takes a closer look at eight emerging forces that are influencing how organizations’ think about their strategy
  • 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
  • Talent and the Generations (Part 1): Gen Y and technology in today’s workplace
    Authors Alexandra Levit and Dorie Clark, along with Deloitte’s John Hagel, debate how Generation Y differs from previous generations
  • In the news
    Recent media coverage.

More Watch, listen, learn

  • Work environment redesign: Accelerating talent development and performance improvement
    Learn more about this February 27 TMT Dbriefs webcast
  • Small Moves, Smartly Made: A Catalyst for Big Changes
    Watch the archive of the Oct 24 TMT Dbriefs Webcast.

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  • Blog: Harvard Business Review - big shift

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