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How Innovation Awards Can Fuel Business Growth

IdeaScale

This is a company-wide competition encouraging the development and implementation of innovative solutions. IS: heard that since 2003 Wolters Kluwer each year consistently invests 8%-10% of total revenues in product development. 75% of the suggested ideas are implemented and adopted across Wolters Kluwer. AD : Simply put, our people.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Competition aside, both face opposing physical forces that must be overcome to win. Inertia is the resistance to any change in the current state of motion. What does it mean in a business context?

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Debunking Disruptive Innovation – Why Disruptive Innovation is Not a Strategy

Leapfrogging

Disruptive innovation, she argued, has become mindlessly equated with “progress” and therefore, allows the concept to be used as an irrefutable argument for change (in just about anything). Good thing for them (and Google shareholders) they changed their minds. Who wouldn’t want progress ? Just take Kodak for example. Goodbye Kodak.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

Learnings from sports competitions Competition in business is similar to sports competitions – there are winners and losers. You don’t need to “reinvent the wheel” for small but innovative changes in your business model, instead get inspired by existing concepts in other industries and apply them to your business model.

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Business model creation and innovation in China: not just copycats.

The BMI Lab Blog

The American e-commerce giant acquired EachNet in 2003 for USD 180 million, with a willingness to step into the enormous Chinese market. At the same time, in 2003-2004, Alibaba invested USD 52 million to enter the C2C market in China through its service, Taobao.com.

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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

The need for people and organisations to innovate has always been there but what’s much harder to comprehend, and therefore navigate, is the rapid pace of change we’re experiencing, on a scale we’ve never seen before. Promoting change of any kind was seen as a threat to the established order. A new era of work and technological change.

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What is Open Innovation? Benefits & Best Practices

Qmarkets

The closed innovation model can result in slower innovation cycles, higher costs, and increased risk of obsolescence in a rapidly changing market. By staying attuned to market shifts, technological advancements, and consumer behavior changes, companies can proactively adapt their strategies and products. But what is open innovation?