Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Methods are needed that focus on the customer experience, allow us to adapt to new information, and help us make decisions based on market-based evidence. When designing something, (ie: a technology, a product, a marketing material…) it is paramount to keep the needs of the end user in mind. Competition is now global.

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Open Innovation EU

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

I recently ran into an article (Walrave et al 2011) that analyzed a simulation of investing in exploration vs. exploitation. However, because of the success of this strategy, there will be a decrease of competition (from your perspective) resulting in external pressure to focus more on exploration. Download infographic.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. Whether Google Demo Slam or Sprint's App Competition , digital media has become an innovation battleground for customers, clients, prospective partners, and young talent.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

McKinsey in 2011 identified that 72% of transformation programs fail to deliver on their targets so there is an awful lot of thinking, planning and working through any transformation to make sure you end up with the 28% of the success stories. We need to ask can this lead to disruption, ours and others for competitive advantage?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Was a year like 2011 likely ? China, China, and China.

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Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Openness is where market innovation truly takes place. Successful organizations use external resources in an open co-creation process to achieve a larger accessible market through building value nets and growing the total market. Penker (2008-2011). Be Open – share ideas with competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

Companies that demonstrate strategic coherence — think Wal-Mart and Coca-Cola — earn a market premium in terms of higher earnings and greater shareholder value. The big question for many leaders as they look toward 2011 is: "How can my company be one of them?". There's no doubt about it; numbers don't lie.

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Innovation 360 Group

JANUARY 25, 2011

Just the other day A Great Place to Work also released their list 2011 FORTUNE’S 100 BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR® which is based upon a deeper cultural audit and as far as I can see much more reliable. Their Top 5 on the Fortune list 2011 is: SAS. Wegmans Food Markets. Boston Consulting Group.

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Strategos

MARCH 24, 2017

Founded in 2011 by Michael Dubin and Mark Levine, the startup attracted a lot of attention when Mr. Dubin featured in a comedic ad posted on Youtube that went viral. Dollar Shave managed to capture 8% of the market in only a few years before it was acquired by Unilever in 2016. Challenging your orthodoxies.

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Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., Klein & Bullock, 2006; Lewin, 2011; Von Mises, 1949). Koppl, 2008; Lewin, 2011). Neck et al.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Google is poised to completely alter how websites market themselves over the next year. This change, however, will take value away from marketers who rely on visitors clicking through to deeper pages. Marketers will see better search rankings if they document information using this new format. This is a tremendous strategy.

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Qmarkets

JULY 5, 2017

Swiss Post is a diversified group with five main subsidiaries – PostMail, PostLogistics, Swiss Post Solutions, PostFinance and PostBus – operating in communications and logistics, retail financial services, and the passenger transport market. This, we believed, would provide us with the competitive edge we were seeking. “We

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

You might think that emerging country companies are more ready to address the needs of and win customers in other emerging markets. is expanding rapidly via acquisitions of Issue Group and Cosmetica Nacional in Latin America, while China's Huawei has a large direct presence in India's telecom market.

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Anaqua

MARCH 30, 2018

Even in the most extreme cases where there is a perfect intersection of data, analytics, valuable metrics, and huge incentives to utilize and optimize, we see both surprising catastrophic failures, and stunning opportunites in markets. End of 2011 $1,578. End of 2011 $48 (net of accumulated amortization of $1,114). billion ($2.9

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. The most intense competition between consulting firms is for "whale" engagements. For us, our strategy informs every big decision we make — what markets to enter or exit, what acquisitions to make, what products to introduce." (The

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2020

In 2011, technology pioneer Marc Andreessen declared that software is eating the world. First, they lack barriers to entry, which makes it difficult to create a sustainable competitive advantage. Second, they tend to create “winner-take-all” markets so for every fabulous success like Facebook, you can have thousands of failures.

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Planview

AUGUST 29, 2017

billion in 2011 to $20.3 The union of finance and technology has already caused disruption across markets and industries, and that trend is unlikely to go away. billion in 2015. Removing Transaction Barriers. One of the key opportunities for growth in FinTech revolves around a simple truth: completing transactions is a hassle.

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Adam Hartung

JULY 15, 2016

By 2011 Nintendo sale were down to 11.6m Sony and Microsoft both invested heavily in their competition. Even though both were unprofitable at the business, neither was ready to concede the market. In fall, 2014 Microsoft raised the competitive ante, spending $2.5B Nintendo was becoming a market afterthought.

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Mills-Scofield

OCTOBER 4, 2015

The abysmal job market for teens is forcing many of them to think differently about work. As of 2011, only 26% of teens were employed. In addition to the ho-hum job market, and changing cultural zeitgeist, technology is changing where, when and how early we begin to work.

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Adam Hartung

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Changing accounting for depreciation, inventory, real estate holdings, revenue recognition, new product launches, product cancellations, marketing investments — the list is endless. Azure is in a growth market, but it faces very stiff competition from market leader Amazon. Office commercial revenue declined 2%.

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Adam Hartung

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

But if we take an historical look, despite how well WalMart’s value has done between 2011 and 2014, there are ample reasons to forecast a very difficult future. 2 – In March, 2010 AdAge ran a column about WalMart being “stuck in the middle” and effectively becoming the competitive “bulls-eye” of retailing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. American companies and academic institutions possess unique competitive advantages in developing these global leaders.

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100%Open

MARCH 16, 2015

Many of the deals that are done involve some sort of investment but the primary reason for the relationship is more immediate, pragmatic and, dare I say it, business-like: For the SME the deal can represent a route to market. Most crowdfunding is conducted on specialist platforms such as Kickstarter founded in 2009 and Fundageek (2011).

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Anaqua

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It’s a region where highly developed, sophisticated intellectual property (IP) systems and regulatory frameworks in some markets co-exist with relatively immature IP regimes in neighboring countries. This undoubtedly helped China become the top patent filer in the world in 2011.

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ITONICS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This can lead to a significant competitive advantage, especially in large companies. Another important application is the strategic observation of competition with the help of machine learning. With this, well-known market companions, but also start-ups and venture capital investments can be observed and classified.

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Technology Created

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Why would it be important to dig into events such as the introduction of the Model A by Henry Ford in 1927 or the failure of IBM to react to Microsoft’s entry into the PC market in the early 1980’s? Why would they simply not be able to more effectively and easily move to a new market and opportunity as they occur? 2] “Timeline.”

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Although enterprise collaboration software market has been around for over 20 years, innovation management software is a specialized segment that helps companies guide and support their innovation process. Innovation management software is so much more than idea management platforms in the market today. Rampersad, G., and Plewa, C.

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Adam Hartung

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Wal-Mart market value took a huge drop on Wednesday. Like most stock market moves, this one just happened really fast. ” This is the disease of constantly focusing on improving your “core” business, while market shifts around you increasingly make that “core” less relevant, and less valuable.

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Marketing Software Company Report 36

Adam Hartung

JULY 8, 2015

Amidst all these big tactical actions, it is completely unclear what the strategy is to remain a viable company as customers move, quickly and in droves, to mobile devices using competitive products. Because between 2011 and 2013 Nokia had already lost half its market share. Why was I so sure it would be a mistake?

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

According to Global Human Capital Trends 2015 pg 36, “Organizations that create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong leadership are outperforming their peers and will likely beat their competition in attracting top talent.”. American Management Association. Kahneman, D.

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Adam Hartung

APRIL 21, 2016

Think about Blackberry, that gave us the smartphone business then lost it to Apple and its creation of the app market. These were some really big companies that saw their market shifts, but failed to “pivot” their strategy to remain competitive. It is becoming a market leader in original programming.

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New Markets Advisors

MAY 17, 2018

Credit: UCA Before I joined New Markets Advisors as an Associate, I was on the team that opened the University of Central Asia ’s Naryn campus in Kyrgyzstan for its inaugural 2016–2017 school year. Though Central Asian universities favor pre-professional programs over liberal arts ones, the degrees offered are still not market-driven.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Swiss Post is a diversified group with five main subsidiaries – PostMail, PostLogistics, Swiss Post Solutions, PostFinance and PostBus – operating in communications and logistics, retail financial services, and the passenger transport market. This, we believed, would provide us with the competitive edge we were seeking. “We

Idea Management 40

Idea Management Culture Ideation Engagement 40

hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Although the enterprise collaboration software market has been around for over 20 years, innovation management software is a specialized segment that helps companies guide and support their innovation process. Innovation management software is so much more than idea management platforms in the market today. Rampersad, G., and Plewa, C.

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Adam Hartung

JUNE 30, 2015

The stock was $66 in June, 2011, and $55 in 6/12 when it made #6. What are employees saying about the sustainability of the “dollar store” segment in a very tough retail market with growing internet competitors? Or due to some change in market competition.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

To that end he launched a competition, inviting inventors, engineers, and students from the top universities in the world to design a new type of toilet. In 2011, we launched the Reinvent the Toilet challenge. The world needs sanitation innovation and it needs it yesterday.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Consumer markets in the developing world are an enormous but still-untapped opportunity for companies seeking new sources of growth. The challenges – market development, product design, logistics, communication — deter many companies from even considering rural markets in developing countries. Worldwide, there are 3.4

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