Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Eric Gabas-Varini is the Partner and Co-Founder of Innovation Framework Technologies, a consulting firm which was founded in Paris, but has since established regional offices in the United States, South Korea & Japan, with a network of associate offices in Latin America and the Middle East. Merging Theory and Practice. Pitfalls to Avoid.

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Gijs Van Wulfen

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The ‘front end’ is the informal start of innovation and defined as “fuzzy” by many due to its lack of process and structure. 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. The technology: can we deliver it?

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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.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 30, 2020

Companies had to take extreme measures to adapt their processes and recalibrate their strategies. In this context, designing a strategy that keeps your business healthy and sustainable on an ongoing basis – a crisis resilient one – can be the difference between success and failure. The only viable option was e-commerce.

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Brunner

MAY 31, 2019

economists predict another recession is due by the end of 2020, according to a survey from the National Association for Business Economics last year. If you ask Jeff Shill, the creative director at ad agency Brunner, that means building a marketing strategy heavy on emotion. Two-thirds of U.S. Some stop advertising. At the core.

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Wazoku

JANUARY 9, 2020

Advances in mechanisation, mass production and, more recently, technology have shaped where and how we work, as well as what we produce. A new era of work and technological change. New technology in the home made it easier for women to do paid work, relieving them of time-consuming housework. The digital revolution.

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Idea Drop

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Although Kodak had early access to the first digital camera technology, they chose not to develop it as they felt it would kill their own film business. 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. They filed for bankruptcy in 2012.

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The Inovo Group

MARCH 20, 2020

According to Nassim Taleb in his seminal book The Black Swan (2007) , a Black Swan Event is defined as follows: An outlier – as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility, It carries an extreme “impact”, and. The Black Swan (2007).

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Eric Gabas-Varini is the Partner and Co-Founder of Innovation Framework Technologies, a consulting firm which was founded in Paris, but has since established regional offices in the United States, South Korea & Japan, with a network of associate offices in Latin America and the Middle East. Merging Theory and Practice. Pitfalls to Avoid.

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Innovation Programs Software Review Innovation Technical Review 40

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Silicon Valley companies are making news these days for their efforts to fix the underrepresentation of women in tech. After 12 years, 50% of technical women, predominately in engineering and computer science, had switched to other fields; 20% of other women professionals had done the same. Marion Barraud for HBR.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

Effective futuring that includes the ability to gain insights into long-term futures with inevitable disruptions and discontinuities needs to be a key component of a company’s strategy and innovation efforts. RIM’s strategy depended on corporate IT adoption with centralized management, control and security of the devices.

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Matthew Griffin

MAY 26, 2015

Over the next ten years Apple sold over 320 million iPods and as they introduced more products such as the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2009 which, at the time of publishing this article, have both respectively sold 421 million and 170 million units their annual revenues grew from $5 Billion to an eye watering $171 Billion. mgriffin_uk .

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

The only difference is that WhatsApp was first to capitalise on the innovative capabilities that were being offered by mobile devices, despite possessing categorically inferior technology and resources. The case of this American technology company is one of the most well-known, not least of all because it is also one of the most shocking.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

The only difference is that WhatsApp was first to capitalise on the innovative capabilities that were being offered by mobile devices, despite possessing categorically inferior technology and resources. The case of this American technology company is one of the most well-known, not least of all because it is also one of the most shocking.

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hackerearth

JUNE 29, 2017

Another definition hinting at its pivotal role in innovation is this: “Idea management is facilitating the flow from idea generation to idea conversion in the innovation value chain” (Hansen & Birkinshaw, 2007). Allocate resources for the winning idea to be executed as part of current innovation strategy, or later.

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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. There was no way a cost cutting strategy would save KMart or Sears. Media is under change, and that change is being created by technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

The annual gathering in Austin, Texas, has gained a reputation as the mecca for innovation and disruptive technologies. Twitter had its coming-out party in Austin in 2007. The program agenda provided valuable insights on consumer tech and social adoption in Japan. Foursquare was the phenomenon in 2009. SXJapan panel.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The only difference is that WhatsApp was first to capitalise on the innovative capabilities that were being offered by mobile devices, despite possessing categorically inferior technology and resources. The case of this American technology company is one of the most well-known, not least of all because it is also one of the most shocking.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Eric Yuan, the founder of Zoom, was one of the first 20 employees of WebEx that was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007. Companies can deal with technological and market uncertainty, even ecosystem uncertainty, using innovation processes, methods and tools developed over the decades. The idea was rejected.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Then a business downturn comes, or a new CEO with a different strategy and mindset, or a corporate re-org, or the leader of the corporate innovation group gets frustrated and quits, or any one of a myriad of other events happens. A 2007 study by M. But the CEO’s words to the shareholders often reveal a deeper truth. Prabhu, & R.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

There are many reasons why Silicon Valley might have been a top contender: for years, it''s been the premier technology hub of the world. While no one can dispute Silicon Valley embodies the quintessential technology culture, there''s another piece of the culture equation that matters just as much for a company like ours: diversity.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

That''s the question Michael Dell has been asking himself since 2007, when he retook the top job at the computer company he founded in 1984. This simple strategy proved wildly successful. By 2007, most had merged (HP and Compaq) or sold some or all of their PC businesses to foreign competitors (IBM to Lenovo; Gateway to Acer).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

For example, when Apple expanded from music players to phones, it carried over to the iPhone not just the technology and software that powered the iPod but also users' entire music collections and its music store's entire supplier base. It pursued this very same course with great success when it launched the original Kindle in 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In his recent Harvard Business Review article, Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom presents research on the role that firms play in explaining rising wage inequality in the U.S. Yet despite these changing market and institutional forces, we still observe important and significant variation among firms in their employment practices and strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

By 2007, the Internet had radically changed the social and economic landscape in the developed world. We wanted to bring some of the advantages of the Internet to these populations, and had a hunch that the best way to go about it would be to use already-entrenched, familiar technologies. Have working electricity.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

By 2007, Brazil had reclaimed its position as the number-one destination of foreign investment in the region from Mexico, according to CEPAL , one of the five regional commissions of the UN; Brazil also represented 30–40% of a typical multinational’s Latin America portfolio, according to our internal client polling.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

A group of us bought the company from the Armstrong Group in a buy-out in 2007. We chose a turnaround strategy built on a radical idea framed by a former Greenpeace activist. Well, maybe, but it's also a hard-headed commercial strategy for the long-term. Cradle-to-Cradle has worked for us as a winning strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

manufacturing jobs continued at a slower rate into 2007, with another million or so jobs lost. Then came the 2007 recession and worldwide financial and economic crisis. Technology will affect them, but the impact will take longer and may be less deep than other areas. After 2002, the decline in U.S. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

It was this received opinion Michael Porter was questioning when, in 1979, he mapped out four additional competitive forces in “ How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.” Strategies for staying ahead. He was hardly alone — that was evidently how most economists thought about competition, too. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Think back to 2007. It wasn’t long ago and, yet, in technology terms, it’s almost an eternity — ride- or hotel-sharing companies didn’t exist yet and the first generation of social media platforms were just hitting the mainstream. Consumer technology and its potential went largely ignored in the enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose. Consider Nokia.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

understands both hiring math and competitive strategy when it comes to filling entry-level jobs in its 3,000-plus Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy stores. The strategy offers them a rare trifecta: It’s good for the company, youth, and society. Across the U.S., With low unemployment, the competition for talent remains fierce.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

What I am pretty sure about is that the how of Apple's fall (or continued rise) will hinge on strategy — because strategy has driven its success. Because strategy is all about making choices. To quote Porter: "Strategy renders choices about what not to do as important as choices about what to do."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. How well does your business strategy support the fulfillment of your company’s purpose?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Each transformation – from a new computer distribution channel – Apple Stores to disrupting the music business with iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; and the App store in 2008 – drove revenues and profits to new heights. They use strategy committees and the exec staff for advice, but none of these CEOs pivot by committee.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

In the ensuing years, the technology ecosystem enabling the new ad medium would steadily unfold, while digital devices proliferated and network connectivity became ubiquitous. Yes, industry pioneers like Doubleclick were building technology systems to manage online ad serving, but the change was a matter of degree, not of kind.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Two big, well-known tech companies neatly illustrate this shift. ” And that was in 2007. This can be very hard to do given the incredible pull of profitability in driving strategy. Consider Microsoft under Steve Ballmer. I can sense that. No one is even afraid of Microsoft anymore.

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