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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

Magretta, 2002). WHO – Every business model serves a certain customer group (Chesbrough and Rosenbloom 2002; Hamel 2000). Magretta 2002). According to the degree of innovation, innovations can be divided into evolutionary and disruptive innovations. And what does the customer value? How do we make money in this business?

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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Making strategy behind closed doors is a prescription for failure when disruptions are coming from all directions. The NASA Pirates – a group officially disbanded in 2002 whose effects still reverberate – were a group of engineers who challenged the traditional practices at NASA.

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Disruptive Technology is ALWAYS Greeted with Doubt, Skepticism and Rejection

Linda Bernardi

Every disruptive technology is greeted with doubt, skepticism, and rejection. In 2002-2005 when as the founder of my startup ConnecTerra Inc, by all accounts the world’s first official IoT company, I started talking to folks about how everything would get on the internet and the economy would be shifting.

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Customer Orientation Effects on Innovation

Integrative Innovation

A disruptive innovation is a new offering that introduces a different set of performance attributes relative to what already exists, and this set of attributes is initially attractive to an emerging customer segment but unattractive to mainstream customers (Adner, 2002; Christensen, 1997). In many recent cases (e.g.

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Innovation Insights from Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Destination Innovation

Although its sales of new books were growing very healthily, in 2002 Amazon introduced a service whereby people could sell second-hand books through the company’s website. Disrupt your own business before someone else does. In 2013, he purchased The Washington Post newspaper. Lessons for Innovators.

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Disrupting Markets – Why PayPal Is Worth More Than Ebay

Adam Hartung

in 2002 , in order to grease the wheels for faster ecommerce growth. To augment growth eBay realized those selling needed a simple way to collect money from people who lacked a credit card. Many customers simply had no card, or didn’t trust giving out the information across the web. So eBay bought fledgling PayPal for $1.5B

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COVID-19: Business R&D Spending Will Fall by at Least 5-6%

Commodore Innovation

As individuals we are grappling with the fear, disruption and uncertainty brought about by COVID-19. Innovation teams are not, of course, immune to this disruption. The organizations we work for are scrambling to manage extraordinary challenges. In some sectors, the threat is unquestionably existential. in 2001 and a further 5.6%

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