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How companies can adapt in an era of continuous disruption: a guide to responding to such acute crises as COVID-19.When COVID-19 hit, businesses had to respond almost instantaneously--shifting employees to remote work, repairing broken supply chains, keeping pace with dramatically fluctuating customer demand. They were forced to adapt to a confluence of multiple disruptions inextricably linked to a longer-term, ongoing digital disruption. This book shows that companies that use disruption as an opportunity for innovation emerge from it stronger. Companies that merely attempt to "weather the storm" until things go back to normal (or the next normal), on the other hand, miss an opportunity to thrive. The authors, all experts on business and technology strategy, show that transformation is not a one-and-done event, but a continuous process of adapting to a volatile and uncertain environment. Drawing on five years of research into digital disruption--including a series of interviews with b

An analysis of patterns of convergent evolution on Earth that suggests where we might look for similar convergent forms on other planets. Why does a sea lily look like a palm tree? And why is a sea

A catalog of wonders, from walking fish to self-medicating chimpanzees.This Atlas of Poetic Zoology leads readers into a world of wonders where turtles fly under the sea, lizards walk on water, insect

How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of human situations, explored and illustrated with many real examples.In Re-Reasoning Ethics, B

Postwar artists and architects have used photography, film, and other media to imagine and record the world as a wonder of collaborative entanglement -- to translate the world for the world. In this b

Hello Avatar! Or, {llSay(0, "Hello, Avatar!"); is a tiny piece of user-friendlycode that allows us to program our virtual selves. In Hello Avatar, B. Coleman examines a crucialaspect of our cultural s

Anyone who has studied linguistics in the last half-century has been affected by the work of David Perlmutter. One of the era's most versatile linguists, he is perhaps best known as the founder (with

An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't.For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty -- summed up b

Over the past forty years, Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941) has been a composer of electronic music, experimental filmmaker, computer animator, roboticist, inventor, an

Since the late 1970s, the Berlin-based contemporary artist Isa Genzken (b. 1948) has produced a body of work that is remarkable for its formal and material inventiveness. In her sculptural practice, G

Millions of children visit virtual worlds every day. In such virtual play spaces asHabbo Hotel, Toontown, and Whyville, kids chat with friends from school, meet new people, constructavatars, and earn

For more than thirty years, Wu Jinglian has been widely regarded as China's mostcelebrated and influential economist. In the late 1970s, Wu (b. 1930) was one of a small group ofeconomic thinkers who b

Biological sewage treatment, like electricity, power generation, telephones, and masstransit, has been a key technology and a major part of the urban infrastructure since the latenineteenth century. B

Digital communications are the lifeblood of modern society. We "meet up"online, tweet our reactions millions of times a day, connect through social networking rather thanin person. Large portions of b

The move to 3D graphics represents a dramatic artistic and technical development in the history of video games that suggests an overall transformation of games as media. The experience of space has b

Studies show that institutions play a role both in causing and in addressing problemsarising from human-environment interactions. But the nature of this role is complex and not easilydescribed. This b

The recurring theme in Jerry Wiesner's varied and distinguished career was whatSenator Edward M. Kennedy calls in the foreword to this book a "passionate involvement to make abetter world, and a safer

Software has gone from obscurity to indispensability in less than fifty years.Although other industries have followed a similar trajectory, software and its supporting industryare different. In this b

This title talks about air in our everyday and imaginative lives, as portrayed by a wide range of writers, photographers, and artists. For centuries, humans have tried to master air. Sea captains rein

Despite its haphazard growth, the Web hides powerful underlying regularities -- fromthe organization of its links to the patterns found in its use by millions of users. Many of theseregularities have

In recent years the welfare state has come under attack from economists, and in many OECD countries there have been calls for spending on the welfare state to be rolled back. Critics argue that the s

Foreword by Michael Sorkin Introduction by Richard Guy Wilson "This excellent book makes a strong case for a renewed appreciation of regional modernism." -- Erika Belsey, "Art New England" Inflected b

In this study of how daily newspapers in America have developed electronic publishing ventures, Pablo Boczkowski shows that new media emerge not just in a burst of revolutionary technological change b