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Innovation Insights from Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Destination Innovation

Traditional bookstores responded with their own websites but none was as appealing, as agile or as successful as Amazon. Yet that is what they did in 2007 with the launch of the Kindle. In 2014 Amazon entered the smartphone market with the release of the Fire Phone. Disrupt your own business before someone else does.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

From 2003 to 2007, I have been in charge of the R&D project portfolio management line of business at a solution provider. This can be considered as an underused asset, just like if a company was not using a part of its channels to sell its products or was not using a given production line to its full capacity to meet market demand.

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Adapt or die: lessons from 5 companies that failed to innovate

Idea Drop

It feels like the world is moving faster than ever, which means that companies in every sector have to prioritise agile innovation or risk becoming defunct. In 2007 a small-time, ailing Netflix actually thought they were going to be acquired by the Blockbusters giant, but they decided they didn’t want to.

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Part 1: Accelerating the impact of Innovation Campaigns

Values Centered Innovation

In a 2007 McKinsey Quarterly article on “Leadership and Innovation,” the authors made it quite clear that “Innovation is a core driver of growth, performance and valuation.” Implement disruptive technologies. Develop stronger marketing and branding. 65% are concerned that new entrants are disrupting their business models.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

From 2003 to 2007, I have been in charge of the R&D project portfolio management line of business at a solution provider. This can be considered as an underused asset, just like if a company was not using a part of its channels to sell its products or was not using a given production line to its full capacity to meet market demand.

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Top 3 Alternative Assets for your Business Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

The trend data you gather can be based on anything from new technologies and services to new disruptive business models. Strategically making steps towards increasing your market share. Smaller, Quicker Wins: Improvements can be implemented far quicker than larger disruptive ideas.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. While they’ll likely never regain the market dominance they had in the 20 th century, (their business model continues to be extremely profitable) Nadella likely saved Microsoft from irrelevance.