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

The BMI Lab Blog

In 1994 Peter Drucker defined business models as “stories that explain how enterprises work” and answer the age-old questions of Peter Drucker’s Theory of Business – “Who is the customer? How do we make money in this business? WHO – Every business model serves a certain customer group (Chesbrough and Rosenbloom 2002; Hamel 2000).

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A Decade of Disruption

100%Open

Well in this era of disruption, it’s impossible to imagine what a difference a decade makes. IBM recently showed that disruption has already happened , and is continuing to happen, and shows no sign of slowing down. And how right she was that the difference always is you, and what you choose to do. The future isn’t an accident.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | As we seem to heading towards economic downturn, leaders find themselves trying to reduce costs and foster growth at the same time. We have seen this happening during the last economic crisis, when merely 10% of companies performed better at the end of the crisis than they did before it.

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Seven impacts Open Innovation can have on your bank!

mjvinnovation

The disruptive initiatives that have emerged with external partnerships have kept this sector at the peak of global Innovation. . We’ll talk more about that in this article. Those who best exploit Innovation are those who can compete and keep up. The 2008 financial crisis was decisive. Fintech (ization).

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Covering Innovation My Way

Paul Hobcraft

Just trying to stay your own course is tough enough but with all the diversity of views it must be even more overwhelming for others who are asked to take on a role within innovation. Where and who do you turn too must be a real dilemma ? I have two established businesses, one started in 2000 and one in 2008. Paul4innovating.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

We need to make some major changes with urgency and a depth of purpose. This means that company boards who used to side with management no longer automatically protect them, and as Jeff Immelt discovered, may even side with an activist. It’s often a cattle prod to a stagnant company, or one ignoring disruption by new startups.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

I’m going to talk about how, in the 21st Century, we need ‘Goodness’ more than ‘Greatness’ when it comes to innovation. We are familiar with all these inventions. Here is another question: Do you know who these people are? We have spent over a century making and producing ‘things’. Yes, you read it right.