The BMI Lab Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Let’s take a look at how the British cycling team went from zero Tour de France victories and ninety-five years without any Olympic medal by 2003 to sixty-six Olympic or Paralympic gold medals and five Tour de France victories between 2007 and 2017 (Clear, 2018). The spectrum of triggers for changes in the current business model is broad.

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Gijs Van Wulfen

MAY 5, 2017

No market need. Innovation starts with an idea, a technology, a problem or a business issue. When a major design conference came to town in 2007, they saw an opportunity to earn some extra cash by renting out their spare floor space. The technology: can we deliver it? No priority for innovation. Lack of resources.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 7, 2008

Information architects and designers play a critical role in ensuring the products they design provide users’ with a return on their investment of attention. The causes of flow have the most implications for website and application design. When attention becomes a scarce resource, it’s important to invest it wisely.

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The Inovo Group

MARCH 20, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic, a fifty-percent drop in the price of crude oil, and the knock-on effects to businesses and markets have upset the global order. The Black Swan (2007). Population growth, technology and globalization have increased the speed and impact of unexpected events.

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Gijs Van Wulfen

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Cornelius Herstatt and Birgit Verworn state on this: “Within the innovation process, we believe, the early phases (“fuzzy front end”) to have the highest impact on the whole process and the result, since it will influence the design and total costs of the innovation extremely. No market need. The technology: can we deliver it?

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Eric Gabas-Varini is the Partner and Co-Founder of Innovation Framework Technologies, a consulting firm which was founded in Paris, but has since established regional offices in the United States, South Korea & Japan, with a network of associate offices in Latin America and the Middle East. Merging Theory and Practice. Pitfalls to Avoid.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Launched in 2009, this app was designed to fulfil the purpose of SMS messaging on mobile phones and it quickly became very popular. Whatsapp is no different to the original instant messenger designed by ICQ in 1996, or to any of its other competitors such as AIM, MSN, BBM, or KIK. Part 2: A Messenger Fails. Picture Perfect?

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Values Centered Innovation

MARCH 17, 2017

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. Revitalizing the organization design in terms of networked teams, not silos.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Launched in 2009, this app was designed to fulfil the purpose of SMS messaging on mobile phones and it quickly became very popular. Whatsapp is no different to the original instant messenger designed by ICQ in 1996, or to any of its other competitors such as AIM, MSN, BBM, or KIK. A messenger fails. Picture perfect?

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hackerearth

AUGUST 10, 2017

The team calls itself a curiosity driven research group at Stanford, trying to invent novel technologies with clinical applications with a current focus on resource-poor settings. CEO Marissa Mayer offered the same opinion writing for Businessweek in 2006: Some of the most innovative ideas have come from marketing and advertising.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Launched in 2009, this app was designed to fulfil the purpose of SMS messaging on mobile phones and it quickly became very popular. Whatsapp is no different to the original instant messenger designed by ICQ in 1996, or to any of its other competitors such as AIM, MSN, BBM, or KIK. A messenger fails. Picture perfect?

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Brunner

MARCH 18, 2024

If you’re a building supplies brand marketer (or just love home buying trends), read on for the top NAHB findings for 2024. That’s the highest percentage since 2007. Room Layout and Design: Open floor plans are tops, with 76% of home buyers preferring an open layout between the kitchen and dining room. Let’s talk!

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Independent reporting – They were independent of core corporate functions like R&D, Marketing, and Business Development. A 2007 study by M. CEOs who focus their attention on future events and external activities lead their firms to early adoption and invention of new technologies and greater and faster development of innovations.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 30, 2020

Even before the pandemic, entrepreneurs already had a difficult time remaining relevant in an increasingly competitive market. In this context, designing a strategy that keeps your business healthy and sustainable on an ongoing basis – a crisis resilient one – can be the difference between success and failure.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The trend data you gather can be based on anything from new technologies and services to new disruptive business models. A mind map of mega trends and technologies, discussing current events and possible trajectories. Strategically making steps towards increasing your market share.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, Zoom Video Communications (Zoom) had a market capitalization of $116B. Zoom was the result of the inability of Cisco Systems (market cap $189B), to recognize a huge, new opportunity. Eric Yuan, the founder of Zoom, was one of the first 20 employees of WebEx that was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, Research in Motion (RIM) was a major player in a worldwide market that sold about one billion cell phones annually (the term “smartphone” was new). Articulate artifacts, experiences and influences – expand beyond technology. Conduct market research?

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Now, how about these?

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Now, how about these?

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Matthew Griffin

MAY 26, 2015

Over the next ten years Apple sold over 320 million iPods and as they introduced more products such as the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2009 which, at the time of publishing this article, have both respectively sold 421 million and 170 million units their annual revenues grew from $5 Billion to an eye watering $171 Billion.

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IdeaSpies

AUGUST 31, 2018

did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Now, how about these?

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Outside Innovation

DECEMBER 5, 2015

On November 20th, The African Rural University graduated its first class of 24 students--all received a Bachelor's of Science in Technologies for Rural Transformation. They CO-DESIGNED an innovative new UNIVERSITY, REFINED its unique CURRICULUM, and TESTED that CURRICULUM for 5 years by working with thousands of rural Ugandans.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

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.

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Boxes and Arrows

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The real problem many organizations face regarding conversion, is that content is often still considered “the stuff that goes into the design.” Putting content at center stage means changing some of the fundamental ways we think about content in the design process and how it helps conversion. Can you help me with that?”.

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Open Innovation EU

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

It has been a while since Henry Mintzberg developed his influential work that made us aware of the importance of structures in organization design. Structures are no longer of primary focus in design organizations. Let me show you how the focus of organization design has changed over the years: Scholar. It enhances productivity.

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

50 what-if questions to reimagine the future We have handpicked a selection of trends & shifts in technology to help you come up with more relevant business ideas. Smart assistants like Alexa (Amazon), Google Assistant (Google) or Siri (Apple) are the first mass-market examples of how voice interfaces could look like in the future.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 21, 2020

job losses skyrocketed during the peak recession years 2008-2010 Given the devastating impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis, it’s little wonder that companies worldwide are sensitive to omens of a new “great recession”. Read on to discover how you can transform a recession into a rejuvenation. to champion the innovation initiative.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 23, 2014

By using these nascent user-centered design methods, they were able to meet the expanding needs of their user base and claim over 90% of the small business accounting software market. A noticeable lack of focus prevented them from innovating as a company; their user-centered design DNA was disappearing.

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Gijs Van Wulfen

JANUARY 26, 2016

That’s why being persistent, is the quality that makes you deliver results, taking an idea from scratch to it’s market success. It’s surely an amazing example of the perseverance of a true innovator, convinced of his new technology to create value. I could not agree more with him!

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