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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). Disruptive innovations are mostly business model innovations that copy successful patterns or technologies from other industries and combine them into a new business model concept.

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Sustaining a Healthy World Through Growing Crop Health

Business and Tech

agricultural industry is at the core of building a healthy and resilient world. The virus threatened to ruin the Hawaiian papaya industry until papayas resistant to the disease were developed by scientists through genetic engineering. A thriving U.S. Funding the future of food. economy for every $1 of spending.

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Seven Companies That Failed to Innovate and What Happened to Them

IdeaScale

In 2002, Circuit City looked at the retail landscape, saw success in its future, and decided CarMax needed to be its own company. The problem was they focused entirely on desktop computers, leaving the market in industrial computing and servers to others. Seeing the writing on the wall, Compaq sold itself to Hewlett Packard in 2002.

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Does Merging Two Struggling Firms Create Value?

Michael Roberto

Neiman, in 2002, filed for bankruptcy , but has emerged in a better position, with less debt. Can they develop a stronger competitive advantage that enables them to grow in the face of strong headwinds in the brick-and-mortar retail industry? It seems unlikely that a merger solves the growth problem at these firms.

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ISS Software GmbH and Wazoku partner to revolutionise the German insurance industry

Wazoku

ISS Software GmbH and Wazoku are set to transform the German insurance sector by enabling the co-creation of new solutions for insurance organisations for and in collaboration with the wider industry. Set up by Sopra Steria AG in 2002, ISS Software GmbH provides its customers with more than technical excellence, expertise and cost reduction.

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The Evolution of My Speaking Video

Stephen Shapiro

So with that as background, here’s the evolution of my speaking video, starting with my first one from 20022002: Style over Substance (3 minutes). ” The premise is that sometimes the best sources of innovation come from outside your industry. Besides, some of these are good for a laugh.

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Who were the Greatest Britons?

Destination Innovation

In 2002 the BBC ran a poll to determine who the public considered to the the greatest British people of all time. His laws together with his mathematical discoveries laid the foundation for the development of technology and the industrial revolution. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616).