Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When Steve Jobs launched the iPhone in 2007, many pundits were less than impressed. Some said that its unusual shape made it unwieldy. Others thought that it was too expensive. Still others remarked that all the extra software made it a poor choice for its primary function — making phone calls.

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Brunner

MARCH 18, 2024

We’re already digesting the study’s findings to inform strategies and campaigns for our clients. If you’re a building supplies brand marketer (or just love home buying trends), read on for the top NAHB findings for 2024. That’s the highest percentage since 2007. Let’s talk!

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 29, 2013

What makes a marketing e-mail or newsletter efficient? The act of clicking certain element in a marketing e-mail is a result of a longer process of identifying, assimilating, and analyzing its content. But what to include in the marketing message instead of introductory blah-blah text? 2007), Blah-Blah Text: Keep, Cut or Kill?

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In this blog, we will share the additional ‘innovation assets’ that many companies are yet to include in their business innovation strategy. This can result in the formation of ideas for new products and strategies, which ultimately can create competitive advantage and deliver incredible ROI. Top 3 Alternative Innovation Assets 1.

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Brunner

MAY 31, 2019

If you ask Jeff Shill, the creative director at ad agency Brunner, that means building a marketing strategy heavy on emotion. Tactics and strategies should always evolve as needs dictate, but the emotional base of a brand cannot. A brand can’t accomplish all at once, but Shill recommends strategies that accommodate a few.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 6, 2023

As McKinsey points out , organizations that focused on innovation even during the 2009 crisis, outperformed the market average by 30% and their growth continued to accelerate the following years as well. They successfully emerged from the crisis in 2007 through a series of bold decisions from leaders who embraced innovative thinking.

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Boxes and Arrows

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Strategy first. In our combined 15+ years experience working with clients in our respective industries ( digital marketing and technical communication ), we have been amazed with how many folks want to rush to design before they have content goals in place. They bring the whole strategy together. That’s how you convert.

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ITONICS

MARCH 22, 2024

Between 2007 and 2022, corporate R&D spending grew with a CAGR of 5.2%, underscoring the importance of R&D in driving future growth and market differentiation ( Global Innovation Tracker, 2023 ). In the past decades, research and development (R&D) expenses have surged across various industries.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

From 2003 to 2007, I have been in charge of the R&D project portfolio management line of business at a solution provider. This can be considered as an underused asset, just like if a company was not using a part of its channels to sell its products or was not using a given production line to its full capacity to meet market demand.

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Innovation in Practice

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

How and where innovation is performed matters: As Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter, author of classic texts on corporate strategy and the competitive advantage of nations, has noted, “Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.”. Most of this spending is being conducted by companies from Europe and the U.S. ,

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Open Innovation EU

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

At the centre are the innovation brokers: consultancy firms, education professionals and knowledge brokers who do not directly work with innovation, but accelerate it (Chesbrough, 2007). You can create a weighted variant that reveals the nuance in your strategy and company branding. 2) and has been widely studied (i.e.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 30, 2020

Companies had to take extreme measures to adapt their processes and recalibrate their strategies. Even before the pandemic, entrepreneurs already had a difficult time remaining relevant in an increasingly competitive market. This guarantees your foothold in the market for much longer. What does it mean to be scalable?

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 21, 2020

However, by developing an innovation strategy that anticipates a downturn, you can help your enterprise weather the storm and even uncover lucrative ways to gain a competitive edge. In the interests of futureproofing your enterprise, it’s important to ensure your innovation strategy can accommodate the privations of turbulent economic times.

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Idea Drop

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In 2007 a small-time, ailing Netflix actually thought they were going to be acquired by the Blockbusters giant, but they decided they didn’t want to. Each CEO was so ignorant of history that they presented the same business plan over and over again, until Netflix was ready to take their market share with a bulletproof online offering.

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Gijs Van Wulfen

MAY 5, 2017

From all these workshops I identified fifteen obstacles which may block you during the fuzzy front end along the path towards a successful new business case: Unclear strategy. No market need. When a major design conference came to town in 2007, they saw an opportunity to earn some extra cash by renting out their spare floor space.

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Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).

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ITONICS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Evolving markets, new demands, standards, and values, as well as ever shorter product life cycles, require a high level of adaptability on the part of the companies. However, given the complexity and the fast pace of their market environment, companies are in many cases no longer able to understand it in sufficient detail. Pillkahn, U.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 3, 2009

” The value of most design projects is typically placed in the upfront design and strategy work. Browyn Jones said it best in her 2007 article, titled Better Writing Through Design: “Ideally, you should work with a writer from day one to design the voice of the copy in conjunction with the visual language of the site.

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Boxes and Arrows

JULY 2, 2013

3 Our emotional responses to the marketing, purchase, and use of products combine over time to create emotional experiences, which further combine to create emotional relationships. Even the marketing of the page–Why “Go” Beyond Talk?–could The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating. Designing relationships.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Developing a strategy here is key in creating an efficient and cost-effective idea generation process, but how should you approach this? In this blog we will share how crowdsourcing, incremental, and breakthrough innovation can be used as part of your NPD strategy throughout the FFE stage. Dyson engineers are never satisfied.

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The BMI Lab Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Let’s take a look at how the British cycling team went from zero Tour de France victories and ninety-five years without any Olympic medal by 2003 to sixty-six Olympic or Paralympic gold medals and five Tour de France victories between 2007 and 2017 (Clear, 2018).

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Econic

JUNE 10, 2019

Looking at the stock price of JCPenney, they peaked in 2007 right before the recession, then like all other department stores started to decline. He rebranded the company to look for a younger market. The people who were popping into JCPenney in 2011 to “treasure hunt” were the target market. What did Ron Johnson do?

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The Inovo Group

MARCH 20, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic, a fifty-percent drop in the price of crude oil, and the knock-on effects to businesses and markets have upset the global order. The Black Swan (2007). Although exaggerated, these points contain significant elements of truth, and, therefore, implications for corporate strategy and innovation.

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Gijs Van Wulfen

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

From all these workshops I identified fifteen obstacles which may block you during the fuzzy front end along the path towards a successful new business case: Unclear strategy. No market need. When a major design conference came to town in 2007, they saw an opportunity to earn some extra cash by renting out their spare floor space.

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Wazoku

JANUARY 9, 2020

2003 – Skills strategy part one In 2003, the Government issued its skills strategy White Paper with the aims of ensuring that employers had the skills to support the success of their business, and that employees had the necessary skills to be both employable and personally fulfilled. The digital revolution.

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New Markets Advisors

AUGUST 20, 2018

The right times to grow through destruction While the right innovation strategy depends on a number of factors?—?industry, The market is mature and over-satisfied. As markets mature, customers find it very easy to satisfy the jobs that are most important to them. Your tiered brand strategy requires differentiated offerings.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

From 2003 to 2007, I have been in charge of the R&D project portfolio management line of business at a solution provider. This can be considered as an underused asset, just like if a company was not using a part of its channels to sell its products or was not using a given production line to its full capacity to meet market demand.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, Zoom Video Communications (Zoom) had a market capitalization of $116B. Zoom was the result of the inability of Cisco Systems (market cap $189B), to recognize a huge, new opportunity. Eric Yuan, the founder of Zoom, was one of the first 20 employees of WebEx that was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 20, 2020

Excerpted from The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copyright © 2007 by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. As part of our visit, our client approached us with the following challenge: The company had a high demand to get to know the Chinese innovation and market ecosystem. This was both financially and operationally unsustainable.

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hackerearth

MARCH 28, 2018

Initially set up by Lockheed Martin Corporation, Industry Chamber FICCI and the IC 2 Institute at the University of Texas, Austin in 2007, IIGP has continued to nurture brilliant ideas and concepts from innovators across the country in the ten years since. What is the India Innovation Growth Programme 2.0

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Values Centered Innovation

MARCH 17, 2017

In a 2007 McKinsey Quarterly article on “Leadership and Innovation,” the authors made it quite clear that “Innovation is a core driver of growth, performance and valuation.” Develop stronger marketing and branding. Part 1 of 3: Innovation is the core driver to meet critical business needs. Promote sustainability with all stakeholders.

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Econic

JUNE 10, 2019

Looking at the stock price of JCPenney, they peaked in 2007 right before the recession, then, like all other department stores, started to decline. He rebranded the company to look for a younger market. A “Cannonball” Strategy. The people who were popping into JCPenney in 2011 to “treasure hunt” were their target market.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 15, 2015

The blog started on the Blogger platform in November 2007 after seeing Jessica Myers (who was at Garmin Industries at the time) speak at a conference about being able to start a blog for free in just ten minutes. At least that’s what has happened with the Brainzooming blog! MM, 2K, 2000.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

If you're an experienced professional, it can be tough to find a job in today's market. The market dynamics that pushed her out of a job were happening across the whole marketplace for her profession. Between 2007 and 2008, financial, information, and professional service jobs were outsourced at an average rate of 5.4% (PDF).

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Adam Hartung

MAY 15, 2016

Pumped by most analysts, and none moreso than Jim Cramer of “ Mad Money ” fame (Lampert’s former roommate,) in 2 years the stock soars to $178 by April, 2007. Leaving Sears’ market “hollowed out.” There was no way a cost cutting strategy would save KMart or Sears. But they were wrong.

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hackerearth

AUGUST 10, 2017

CEO Marissa Mayer offered the same opinion writing for Businessweek in 2006: Some of the most innovative ideas have come from marketing and advertising. When Virgin America had limited marketing budgets, it got creative and partnered with Victoria's Secret and HBO (2007-2008) to redefine customer experience for their flyers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

The big exception is Amazon, With the Kindle Fire, which was introduced last year, it is pressing forward with a full-fledged ecosystem strategy. It pursued this very same course with great success when it launched the original Kindle in 2007. Their product-focused rivals will illustrate what it means to be "stuck in the middle.".

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