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2024: A Pivotal Year

Digital Tonto

GDP would fall by 14% and the ad market, which fueled the media business I ran, fell by 85%. Related posts: Why 2020 Is Shaping Up To Be A Pivotal Year 2012 – The Year of the Interface 2010 – The Year Everything Was Supposedly Dead; 2011 – The Year of Scale and Synergy Top Posts of 2009 2015: The Year The Cloud Bursts

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Innovators in FMCG love Direct to Consumer

Destination Innovation

In 2010 the Gillette brand which is owned by Proctor and Gamble held 70% of the US market for razors. Its market share has now slid to around 50%. Established brands have long held the advantage in the market for fast moving consumer goods (FMCG). Warby Parker was founded in 2010 by four friends from business school.

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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). 2008), or, more simply, the value proposition (Teece 2010). They start in market niches - usually in the low-end market or with non-consumers.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

However, a business model shouldn’t be innovated or improved ad-hoc in a “one-and-done” fashion – instead due to its importance and the dynamic changing market conditions it should be updated and checked continuously on a regular basis. This figure shows how competitive advantage is generated over a market lifecycle.

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Understanding the Innovation Landscape needed for Enabling Technologies in the World’s Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

We are far to slow in Government policy in providing incentives and organizing the capital markets to raise, distribute and commit to investment levels that are necessary to make this transition. The Emissions Gap Report has been produced annually since 2010. Presently we are not making the essential investments we need to make.

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Innovation in the Automotive Industry

Yet2

Automotive manufacturers, companies in the automotive supply chain, and technology startups eyeing the automotive market need to understand the innovations that are taking place today – and those that will take place tomorrow. Daimler made just five investments in 2015 – 2016 but made 15 investments from January 2017 to mid-2018.

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How Telltales Told You Not to Own Wal-Mart, and Continue To Do So

Adam Hartung

Wal-Mart market value took a huge drop on Wednesday. Since the beginning of 2015 Wal-Mart has lost 1/3 of its value. Like most stock market moves, this one just happened really fast. All the way back in October, 2010 I wrote about “The Wal-Mart Disease.” In fact, the worst valuation decline in its history.