Idea to Value

JULY 8, 2016

While a structured, repeatable innovation process is critical to create and sustain innovation in a competitive, dog-eat-dog marketplace, it alone is not always sufficient to turn a great innovative idea into a profitable “on-the-store-shelves” reality.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Open innovation is a core strategy for transformative growth amongst a growing number of enterprise companies around the world. After that, I decided to chart a different course by exploring my other interests and developing my creative side, which I expressed by founding an interior design and workspace strategy firm in 2010.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

This trend is even more pronounced among strong innovators, with those pursuing a centralized approach rising from 68 percent in 2013 to 71 percent in 2014. When executed correctly, these innovations deliver a step-change improvement in organizational performance and competitive advantage. Source: Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

What are the top business-to-business sales trends for 2013? More organizations will study their top salespeople in 2013 to understand how they formulate their winning account strategies based upon customer politics, evaluator psychology, and the human nature of executive decision makers that are unique to winning every account.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Open-source innovation (or simply ‘open innovation’) is developing into a core strategy for transformative growth amongst enterprise companies around the world. Staying Competitive : In today’s rapidly changing landscape, leveraging external innovations can help firms remain at the cutting edge and adapt to shifts in the market.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2020

Our goal was to do more than just survive, but to position ourselves to be more competitive in the future. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne popularized the notion of a Blue Ocean Strategy , which focuses on new markets, rather than fighting it out in a “red ocean” filled with rabid competition. Look For Dead Sea Markets.

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Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 28, 2019

We often use the OWLET team video from the International Business Model Competition in 2013 to illustrate how to de-risk new ideas, cheaply and quickly. Let's unpack together the most important principles to follow when testing new business ideas. What can we learn from Owlet on testing new business ideas?

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Norbert Bol

JANUARY 31, 2016

Last week in Strategy Blogs we discussed the topic of innovation speed and how this positively relates to organizational performance. To improve our decision making, Heath & Heath (2013) proposed to: widen the options; reality-test our assumptions; attain distance before deciding and prepare to be wrong. Norbert Bol. Literature.

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Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 13, 2019

Mature Business: Well-established, with a loyal customer base, a competitive field and stable growth. Efficiency: Generate additional profitability by focusing on reducing costs, increasing productivity or redesigning a product/service (shareholder focus).

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Matthew Griffin

MAY 29, 2015

Implemented incorrectly and without the right controls though APIs can also be the equivalent of leaving your front door open – something that’s not been lost on the CIA whose Venture Capital arm In-Q-Tel, seeing the value in ‘joining the dot’s in the Internet of Everything era, in 2013 invested in the popular API firm Apigee. Conclusion.

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Cris Beswick

MAY 16, 2024

In fairness, the number of companies reporting their programs failed to deliver has dropped from 38% in 2013 to 13% in 2023. Bridging the Strategy-Execution Divide Comparatively, organisations with insular top-down or bottom-up transformation models frequently encounter two critical pitfalls that stifle innovation.

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Innovation 360

JANUARY 13, 2014

In a study conducted in the year of 2012 to 2013, it showed that twice the proportion of businesses in innovation has increased their productivity. Lead to more competitive advantage. The most effective, most reliable and most dependable strategies relevance to innovation will help a company to stay in the game.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

The term began gaining popularity in the corporate world around 2013, and since then, digital transformation has become synonymous with the digitization of customer-facing products. One way to combat this is to use the process of Lean Innovation to alleviate some of the uncertainty and guide the strategy based on evidence (data + insights).

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Norbert Bol

MARCH 20, 2016

In the service industry, suppliers and customers think continuously about improving the process of value creation to remain competitive in a long term perspective. To make such an evaluation it can be helpful to find out what the sustainability attitude (Zoeteman, 2013) is of the supplier and the customer. Norbert Bol. Literature.

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Matthew Griffin

MAY 26, 2015

Many bystanders are more likely to view these two giants emergence onto the global stage as business evolution rather revolution and while Samsung declared their competitive intentions in 2008 Foxconn has only recently reached the starting line of its long journey. __. Click & Connect with Matthew: LinkedIn . mgriffin_uk . +44

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Adam Hartung

JULY 8, 2015

Yet he still has not put forward a strategy that should encourage investors, employees, customers or suppliers that the company will remain relevant long-term. I predicted here in this blog the week Steve Ballmer announced the acquisition of Nokia in September, 2013 that it was “a $7.2B Why was I so sure it would be a mistake?

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Anaqua

MARCH 30, 2018

Those that are creative in utilizing existing data, combining internal and external data analytics, and innovate in ways to improve aligning R&D and IP with business objectives, will find opportunities for competitive advantage. How do we value IP when looking at our own acquisition strategy? End of 2012 $7,473. End of 2011 $1,578.

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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.”. All previous Global Innovation 1000 studies are available online.).

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 10, 2015

The good news is that broader interest and increased competition is fueling an all-out arms race towards simpler, more user-friendly interfaces designed for non-technical folks. A team that is lucky enough to have five dedicated optimization resources has the potential to be completely autonomous. Tool selection.

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Idea Drop

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Over time they build a foothold in the market and through a process of continuous improvement and innovation , break into the competitive market that they were previously not involved with. The new move nudged them into the same competitive space as Blockbuster, eventually pushing them out of the market.

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MSSBTI

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

So, you do your analysis, you create a strategy to reach your optimum point, and you execute it. Meanwhile, there may also be disruptors you cannot see or predict creating new types of competition. By 2013, Brazil and India were both suspect. This requires a different set of talents and a different approach.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

As uncertainty is increasing and competition is becoming more fierce, executives need to have a broader understanding of competition itself in order to sustain an edge. ” These questions will help you identify the type of competition that currently exposes you to the greatest existential threats. Insight Center.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In a meeting in 2013, IBM CEO Virginia Rometty gave her workers quite a talking to, telling them to move fast and respond to customers faster to combat poor revenues. Read how IMAX’s Richard Gelfond used this strategy to do more than just survive. This mantra certainly worked for Jeff Bezos and Amazon! Think fast, move faster.

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Wazoku

JULY 19, 2017

SSCL was established in 2013, bringing together people from different government departments and the Wazoku platform offered a common innovation portal covering all SSCL locations. “We This is just the next step in our overall engagement strategy, ensuring our teams work together regardless of location.”. About SSCL.

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Wazoku

JULY 19, 2017

SSCL was established in 2013, bringing together people from different government departments and the Wazoku platform offered a common innovation portal covering all SSCL locations. “We This is just the next step in our overall engagement strategy, ensuring our teams work together regardless of location.”. About SSCL.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

A 2013 Accenture study revealed some interesting findings: Companies which have formal innovation management systems, compared to those that have not, are almost twice as likely to say they were very satisfied with their initial idea generation abilities (43% vs. 24%). Does the vendor’s strategy reflect long-term commitment in the space?

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Matthew Griffin

MAY 17, 2015

About the Author: Recognised in 2013 and 2014 by the public as one of Europe’s leading Emerging Technology and Disruption Strategy advisers Matthew Griffin works with global Accelerators, Analysts, Entrepreneurs, Investors, Governments and Fortune and FTSE multi nationals to help them reinvent themselves and adapt to new market conditions.

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Matthew Griffin

JUNE 1, 2015

Typically there are two groups that will be looking to disrupt your business – competitive corporations, either from within or from outside of your current industry and Entrepreneurs. Disruption is now closer to your door than it’s ever been before. The Caravan on your lawn.

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CREATORS

JUNE 19, 2017

Today’s competitive market has made it both trendy?—?and a strategy known as “spray and pray” in the venture capital world, which has been adopted by a myriad of companies. Most corporations using the “spray and pray” method have disorganized innovation strategies. and necessary?—?for It cannibalized its own core business.

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Wazoku

JANUARY 9, 2020

1880s and 1890s – Efforts to raise productivity A growing concern about the standard of Britain’s labour force, particularly when compared with Germany and the other industrial nations, led to a rise in an emphasis on training to increase productivity and competitiveness. The digital revolution.

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Matthew Griffin

MAY 26, 2015

“Four of Europe’s largest banks reveal their Fintech scouting strategies and with one exception their approach won’t come as a surprise. When Nikon and Cannon were reviewing the market for new competitive threats do you think they investigated the mobile phone companies? Click and Connect with the Author: LinkedIn. mgriffin_uk. +44

Technical Review 40

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Adam Hartung

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Back in January, 2014 CNBC headlined “ Tracking the Slow Death of an Icon ” as it listed all the things that went wrong for Sears in 2013 – and they have not changed two years later. Whatever chance Sears and Kmart had to grow the chain against intense competition it was lost by the Chairman’s need to micro-manage.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 6, 2021

The Design Management Institute researched the size of companies’ competitive edge that they called design-centered – but you can see it there as design-driven, user-centric, or “user focus.” The figures take into account a period of 10 years (2003-2013). How do I measure the ROI of my UX strategy?

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Adam Hartung

APRIL 21, 2016

These were some really big companies that saw their market shifts, but failed to “pivot” their strategy to remain competitive. But in 2013 Netflix proved the analysts wrong, and the company built a very successful – in fact market leading – streaming business.

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Brunner

JUNE 6, 2023

Now, in a new age of high-tech, data-driven advertising, programmatic buying has emerged as the most strategic and effective solution for savvy marketers to beat the competition and drive business results. Programmatic advertising offers complete transparency in campaign performance, allowing advertisers to adjust their strategy promptly.

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Matthew Griffin

JUNE 9, 2015

In order to compete tomorrow’s corporations will need to reinvent their operating model and embrace a Platform strategy.”. “Evidence shows us that the 20 th Century Corporation is dying and that it’s being replaced by a new breed of Millennial Organisation that operates, scales and runs in an entirely new way. Stay tuned for Industry 3.0.

Disruption 40

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

A 2013 Accenture study revealed some interesting findings: Companies which have formal innovation management systems, compared to those that have not, are almost twice as likely to say they were very satisfied with their initial idea generation abilities (43% vs. 24%). Does the vendor’s strategy reflect long-term commitment in the space?

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