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504	    var tdBlocksArray = []; //here we store all the items for the current page
505
506	    // td_block class - each ajax block uses a object of this class for requests
507	    function tdBlock() {
508		    this.id = '';
509		    this.block_type = 1; //block type id (1-234 etc)
510		    this.atts = '';
511		    this.td_column_number = '';
512		    this.td_current_page = 1; //
513		    this.post_count = 0; //from wp
514		    this.found_posts = 0; //from wp
515		    this.max_num_pages = 0; //from wp
516		    this.td_filter_value = ''; //current live filter value
517		    this.is_ajax_running = false;
518		    this.td_user_action = ''; // load more or infinite loader (used by the animation)
519		    this.header_color = '';
520		    this.ajax_pagination_infinite_stop = ''; //show load more at page x
521	    }
522
523        // td_js_generator - mini detector
524        ( function () {
525            var htmlTag = document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0];
526
527	        if ( navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE 10.0") > -1 ) {
528                htmlTag.className += ' ie10';
529            }
530
531            if ( !!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv\:11\./) ) {
532                htmlTag.className += ' ie11';
533            }
534
535	        if ( navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Edge") > -1 ) {
536                htmlTag.className += ' ieEdge';
537            }
538
539            if ( /(iPad|iPhone|iPod)/g.test(navigator.userAgent) ) {
540                htmlTag.className += ' td-md-is-ios';
541            }
542
543            var user_agent = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
544            if ( user_agent.indexOf("android") > -1 ) {
545                htmlTag.className += ' td-md-is-android';
546            }
547
548            if ( -1 !== navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac OS X')  ) {
549                htmlTag.className += ' td-md-is-os-x';
550            }
551
552            if ( /chrom(e|ium)/.test(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase()) ) {
553               htmlTag.className += ' td-md-is-chrome';
554            }
555
556            if ( -1 !== navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Firefox') ) {
557                htmlTag.className += ' td-md-is-firefox';
558            }
559
560            if ( -1 !== navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') && -1 === navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Chrome') ) {
561                htmlTag.className += ' td-md-is-safari';
562            }
563
564            if( -1 !== navigator.userAgent.indexOf('IEMobile') ){
565                htmlTag.className += ' td-md-is-iemobile';
566            }
567
568        })();
569
570        var tdLocalCache = {};
571
572        ( function () {
573            "use strict";
574
575            tdLocalCache = {
576                data: {},
577                remove: function (resource_id) {
578                    delete tdLocalCache.data[resource_id];
579                },
580                exist: function (resource_id) {
581                    return tdLocalCache.data.hasOwnProperty(resource_id) && tdLocalCache.data[resource_id] !== null;
582                },
583                get: function (resource_id) {
584                    return tdLocalCache.data[resource_id];
585                },
586                set: function (resource_id, cachedData) {
587                    tdLocalCache.remove(resource_id);
588                    tdLocalCache.data[resource_id] = cachedData;
589                }
590            };
591        })();
592
593    
594    
595var td_viewport_interval_list=[{"limitBottom":767,"sidebarWidth":228},{"limitBottom":1018,"sidebarWidth":300},{"limitBottom":1140,"sidebarWidth":324}];
596var tdc_is_installed="yes";
597var td_ajax_url="https:\/\/www.bbrief.co.za\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?td_theme_name=Newspaper&v=12.6.6";
598var td_get_template_directory_uri="https:\/\/www.bbrief.co.za\/content\/plugins\/td-composer\/legacy\/common";
599var tds_snap_menu="smart_snap_always";
600var tds_logo_on_sticky="show_header_logo";
601var tds_header_style="";
602var td_please_wait="Please wait...";
603var td_email_user_pass_incorrect="User or password incorrect!";
604var td_email_user_incorrect="Email or username incorrect!";
605var td_email_incorrect="Email incorrect!";
606var td_user_incorrect="Username incorrect!";
607var td_email_user_empty="Email or username empty!";
608var td_pass_empty="Pass empty!";
609var td_pass_pattern_incorrect="Invalid Pass Pattern!";
610var td_retype_pass_incorrect="Retyped Pass incorrect!";
611var tds_more_articles_on_post_enable="show";
612var tds_more_articles_on_post_time_to_wait="";
613var tds_more_articles_on_post_pages_distance_from_top=0;
614var tds_captcha="";
615var tds_theme_color_site_wide="#c00000";
616var tds_smart_sidebar="enabled";
617var tdThemeName="Newspaper";
618var tdThemeNameWl="Newspaper";
619var td_magnific_popup_translation_tPrev="Previous (Left arrow key)";
620var td_magnific_popup_translation_tNext="Next (Right arrow key)";
621var td_magnific_popup_translation_tCounter="%curr% of %total%";
622var td_magnific_popup_translation_ajax_tError="The content from %url% could not be loaded.";
623var td_magnific_popup_translation_image_tError="The image #%curr% could not be loaded.";
624var tdBlockNonce="a1252d645d";
625var tdMobileMenu="enabled";
626var tdMobileSearch="enabled";
627var tdDateNamesI18n={"month_names":["January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"],"month_names_short":["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"],"day_names":["Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Frid
627ay","Saturday"],"day_names_short":["Sun","Mon","Tue","Wed","Thu","Fri","Sat"]};
628var tdb_modal_confirm="Save";
629var tdb_modal_cancel="Cancel";
630var tdb_modal_confirm_alt="Yes";
631var tdb_modal_cancel_alt="No";
632var td_deploy_mode="deploy";
633var td_ad_background_click_link="";
634var td_ad_background_click_target="_blank";
635</script>
635
636
637
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1429<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>The cost of building something new has quietly broken from its twenty-five-year curve. Geopolitical fragmentation and AI-led disruption have merged into a single storm over every boardroom, and the assumptions baked into most innovation processes no longer match the world they are trying to navigate. What follows is the argument for why in-
1429house innovation stalls under pressure, and what works instead.</strong></p>
1430<p style="font-weight: 400;">Here is the argument in plain terms. The cost of turning an idea into a working venture has collapsed, not gradually, but in a discontinuity measured in months. The machinery most companies use to select and fund new ideas was built for a world of scarcity. That world is gone. And the gap between what boards intend when they talk about innovation and what they actually get is not a culture problem or a creativity problem. It is a structural one.</p>
1431<p style="font-weight: 400;">The structural problem is solvable. But not from inside the machine that created it.</p>
1432<h2 style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Time to recalibrate</strong></h2>
1433<p style="font-weight: 400;">For a quarter of a century, the cost of turning an idea into a working venture held to one order of logic. Serious capital. A dedicated team. Years before the first customer. Every senior executive reading this priced that reality correctly, because an entire career&#8217;s intuition was calibrated on it<strong>…</strong></p>
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