Over the next few years, failure will become a necessary growth strategy for any individual or firm.
Author: Trond Arne Undheim, Ph.D.
Trond Arne Undheim is a futurist, speaker, entrepreneur and former Director of MIT Startup Exchange, based outside of Boston. He is the CEO and cofounder of Yegii, a search engine for industry professionals, providing collective intelligence. He holds a PhD on the future of work and artificial intelligence and cognition. He has accelerated four unicorns and helped launch over 50 startups. A former MIT Sloan School of Management Senior Lecturer, WPP & Oracle executive and EU National Expert, he writes for Fortune and Cognoscenti, and has been featured in print media and television. His first book was Leadership From Below (2008). His next book will be on the future of technology.
Move Beyond Disruption: Interview with an Accidental Futurist
Trond Undheim is a futurist seeking to utilize disruptors to create lasting change.
MIT’s Digital Healthcare Startups
MIT’s Digital Healthcare Startups
MIT’s Fintech Startups
If you liked this video, consider preordering Trond’s upcoming book Disruption Games which introduces corporate executives to groundbreaking strategies and frameworks to switch on growth through examining failure–among startups, in corporate venturing, and in corporate/startup […]
Entreprenocracy and Trends in Energy Industry
Large companies can prepare for disruption by combining the strengths of two things, entrepreneurship and bureaucracy.
Academia To Innovation: How research translates to entrepreneurship
PhDs and postdocs can be excellent founders of companies and a co-founder with complimentary skills can fill necessary gaps. Learning from other projects, access to the right ecosystem, and close association with experts is critical to avoid startup failure at an early stage.
Etude No. 19 by Fernando Sor
Etude no. 19, opus 60, GA33 by the Spanish (Catalan) composer and guitar virtuoso Fernando Sor (1778-1839), performed by Trond Undheim.
Ebola: The dark side of globalization
You would think we would have learned to deal with globalization by now. Goods, services, people, and money, and occasionally, diseases, flow across borders at a staggering pace. Little can stop these flows. Not walls. Not presidents. Not health authorities. People, however, remain quite rooted in their local communities.
Why Banks are Afraid of Bitcoin
Bitcoin heralds a new age more disruptive than that of today’s Internet. Disruption can be a good thing, especially when it affects banking, a failing set of business models which, for all the tweaks, have […]
George Orwell Was Right
Trond Undheim spoke at Ballentine Partners’ TH!NK Forum. Facebook knows what you like, Waze knows where you are, and Google knows what you’re looking for. In the name of convenience, we have willingly chained ourselves […]
