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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. It also explains why prominent firms, which have been known for their innovative products for years, suddenly lose their competitive advantage?

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Best Practices are Stupid

Stephen Shapiro

On April 20, 2010, the environment was dealt a horrific blow. For a company that stood to lose billions of dollars in cleanup costs, relief payouts, and lost sales due to bad publicity, this approach might indeed have been a good strategy. Google reportedly lets its employees use 20 percent of their time to develop new ideas.

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

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 2010 – a time when many fashion companies were still reeling from the economic crisis – Hermès opened its first and only men’s store on Madison Avenue.

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Overcome resistance and capture growth in the Financial Services Industry

Innovation 360 Group

Our digital capabilities have been at the forefront due to the increase in the level of acceptance of digital and virtual interaction with our customers and their relative experience across business lines and geographies. Often agile development initiatives are not ‘agile’ at all. Dealing with uncertainty demands innovative ideas.

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Going Lean, Again

etventure

I complimented the team on how calm the assembly line seemed to run – and how clean the workshop looked. The company was losing its technology leadership. Now the Board of Directors was getting nervous – and the CEO felt rising pressure to prove his team is able to deal with digitization. An Expensive Blind Spot.

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IA Summit 10 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

2010 IA Summit theme music generously provided by Bumper Tunes. Richard Dalton and Rob Weening discuss two solutions they’ve developed at Vanguard to address this question. Fluctuating requirements, unexpected technical limitations, and stringent branding rules can make experience design feel like an exercise in compromise.

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Brands In Memoriam 2012

CorporateIntel

It’s ironic that an industry that flies you around in the sky at 500 mph and largely invented the modern loyalty program today can’t come up with more clever ways to achieve growth than eliminating its own competition—plus five extra inches of leg room, baggage checks, and those yummy inflight box lunches are now upsells.