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2024: A Pivotal Year

Digital Tonto

The next year, Viktor Yanukovych, the corrupt thug whose attempt to steal a presidential election sparked the Orange Revolution in 2004, was voted into power in a legitimate election. The incredible cynicism and incompetence of Yanukovych’s rule stoked a desire to change direction. Then things got worse. We can too.

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

The BMI Lab Blog

Alex Osterwalder defines a business model as “a set of assumptions or hypotheses” and Michael Lewis claims that “all it really meant was how you planned to make money” (Ovans, 2015). It can be defined as a holistic view of a company's bundle of products and services that are of value to the customer (Osterwalder 2004).

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

To my opinion, Mintzberg’s work was a refreshing change to the world of organization design that until then has been largely influenced by Taylor’s Scientific Management Approach and Henry Ford’s efficiency-based adaptation of that. Let me show you how the focus of organization design has changed over the years: Scholar.

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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

Advances in mechanisation, mass production and, more recently, technology have shaped where and how we work, as well as what we produce. Promoting change of any kind was seen as a threat to the established order. A new era of work and technological change. At the same time the economy changed.

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The Ambidextrous Organization

Open Innovation EU

13 In 2015, Ferreira et al tested the assumptions and different capabilities Tidd & Bessant proposed and draw conclusions on the most interesting measurable capabilities for a sophisticated innovation strategy. Managing innovation: Integrating technological, market, and organizational change. Andries, P., Berends, H.,

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Innovation – Why Bezos Succeeded, While Lampert Failed at Sears

Adam Hartung

By November, 2004 the stock has risen to $90. Newspapers are a dying business, and Bezos could not change that fact. Media is under change, and that change is being created by technology. The Washington Post had to transition from a “newspaper” company to a “media and technology company.”

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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation (Part 5): Crucial Lessons to Strengthen CVC Success

Corporate Innovation

It is only natural to consider whether the cohort of CVCs established during the last five years will have more staying power than the dot-com CVC group, many of which closed down during the economic downturn of 2001-2004. He explained that over their 20 years of operation, the venture group “had to earn the trust of each of our CEOs.”