ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

It takes a lot of empathy, patience and healthy detachment to provide for the immediate needs of the people on the margins of society and to help them find permanent solutions to their many problems – innovation a company-wide responsibility. The only way for it to survive is to be separated from its internal competition.

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Company Innovation Programs Innovation Product Development 40

Adam Hartung

AUGUST 2, 2015

eBay has run into stiff competition, as CraigsList has grown to take over the “garage sale” and small local business ecommerce. By definition that puts eBay in a growth stall, and fewer than 7% of companies ever recover from a growth stall to consistently increase revenue by a mere 2%/year. And it worked marvelously.

Marketing 36

Marketing Disruption Competition Leadership 36

Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 8, 2016

They were in a desperate fight with Fuji to retain market share in film, as the digital camera sales were ramping up. McKinney's piece made me think about the typical "arc" of a company's existence. This conjecture is backed by evidence - a recent data point indicates that the lifespan of S&P 500 companies is rapidly shrinking.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 21, 2016

Our buddies at Armada Corporate Intelligence addressed what sections you should include in your go to market strategy plan in their “Inside the Executive Suite” feature. 10 Sections Your Go to Market Strategy Plan Should Include via Armada Corporate Intelligence. The term “go to market” strategy cropped up perhaps fifteen years ago.

Strategy 40

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Anaqua

MARCH 30, 2018

Even in the most extreme cases where there is a perfect intersection of data, analytics, valuable metrics, and huge incentives to utilize and optimize, we see both surprising catastrophic failures, and stunning opportunites in markets. End of 2012 $7,473. Motorola Balance Sheet, intangible assets (in millions): End of 2012 $109.

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Innovation Walk

JUNE 14, 2019

Companies commonly used to assume the best route to innovation was to control processes by keeping all data and knowledge internally and hiring the best employees. Hence, the interaction between companies and talents changed, creating new flows of goods and knowledge, driven by a greater mobilisation of people. in 2004 to 8.3%

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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

Every company needs to simultaneously optimize their existing business model (sustain) and search for the next evolution of the business model (disrupt). And companies that continuously outlearn their competition win. How do you define traction and measure product/market fit? - even if you currently are the status quo.

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100%Open

MARCH 16, 2015

This is where a large company sets up a fund to invest in SMEs, usually with the intent to commercialise the smaller company’s innovation. 10% a year. An article a year or two back from Global Corporate Funding stated that between 2010 and 2012, 182 CV units were formed bringing the total number globally to 936.

Open Innovation 40

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Wazoku

MAY 4, 2018

This partnership takes digital transformation to a new level, making it a collaborative effort of an ecosystem with one common interest – to upgrade the industry, to stay competitive and to meet current demand faster and better. The core values of both Wazoku and ISS Software are to future-proof the business of their clients. About Wazoku.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Most people still think of China as a technology copycat, stealing intellectual property and designs from western companies and producing inferior but cheaper knock-offs. By 2012, this had grown to about 66% of the population. This huge market means there is ample room for large numbers of new entrants every year to offer new services.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 16, 2018

With so much disruptive innovation happening so fast, it has become less and less rare for companies to be formed around a service or product that defines them for their lifetime. had a chance to gauge the American consumer’s interest in high-end gems before they entered the market. Building on earlier stories. But Tiffany & Co.

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Adam Hartung

JUNE 30, 2015

24×7 Wall Street just released its fourth annual analysis of the worst companies to work for in America. Of the 30 unique companies identified, exactly half (15) were retailers. By paying minimum wage, and often refusing to hire employees full time, the companies keep costs of brick and mortar store operations lower.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 27, 2016

The Kansas City American Marketing Association monthly lunch addressed that question. Former Vice President of Innovation at Anheuser-Busch, Pat McGauley , shared stories of his past twelve years creating the company’s innovation team. “Sometimes a company needs something that the consumers don’t need.”

Strategy 40

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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

Every company needs to simultaneously optimize their existing business model (sustain) and search for the next evolution of the business model (disrupt). And companies that continuously outlearn their competition win. How do you define traction and measure product/market fit? - even if you currently are the status quo.

LEAN 40

LEAN Design Thinking Design Roadmap 40

Adam Hartung

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Wal-Mart market value took a huge drop on Wednesday. Like most stock market moves, this one just happened really fast. ” This is the disease of constantly focusing on improving your “core” business, while market shifts around you increasingly make that “core” less relevant, and less valuable.

Marketing 36

Marketing Company Software Report 36

hackerearth

MARCH 28, 2018

NASA 1960), market pull (e.g. Samsung Galaxy with touchscreen technology in 2012). Each of these technologies impact multiple functions within a company and influence different industries differently: Artificial Intelligence. For B2B companies, AI will help in lead generation and predictive account management and sales.

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Trends Technology 75

BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence profiled a Bloomberg Businessweek story on Fanatics , the sports apparel manufacturer and marketer, in its Inside the Executive Suite. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Agile Disruption Strategy 40

Adam Hartung

JULY 15, 2016

units, and in 2012 sales were off another 50%. Sony and Microsoft both invested heavily in their competition. Even though both were unprofitable at the business, neither was ready to concede the market. In fall, 2014 Microsoft raised the competitive ante, spending $2.5B Nintendo was becoming a market afterthought.

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KindlingApp

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Often a startup’s goal is to be the next big disruptive innovation that changes the face of the market forever. Inhibitive scale often means large companies find themselves undergoing disruptive changes catalyzed by smaller startups—like Blockbuster’s dismantling at the hands of Netflix.

Entrepreneurship 40

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 30, 2020

Companies had to take extreme measures to adapt their processes and recalibrate their strategies. Even before the pandemic, entrepreneurs already had a difficult time remaining relevant in an increasingly competitive market. This guarantees your foothold in the market for much longer. What does it mean to be scalable?

Strategy 40

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Each year businesses spend an aggregate of $40B on market research. A classic example of open crowdsourcing has been Cisco's iPrize competition, aimed at finding the next billion-dollar business ideas – a venue that has led to such winning ideas as a sensor-enabled smart-electricity grid and others. Oct 03, 2016 | Anthony Mills.

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Adam Hartung

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

The PC market has been steadily shrinking since 2012. The big market shift to mobile devices started back in 2007 when the iPhone began challenging Blackberry. Ballmer had played “bet the company” on Windows 8 and the returns were not good. And, worse, the entire OEM market is collapsing.

Marketing 36

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hackerearth

MAY 12, 2017

And here’s a good one: Executing an idea which addresses a specific challenge and achieves value for both the company and customer. Companies are leaving no stone unturned in their attempts to drive innovation, be it radical, incremental, or breakthrough. These were big companies. Weathering the perfect storm. Source: [link].

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

What if power naps were allowed at your company? What if you used drones in your company? The manufacturing industry is becoming increasingly capable of creating small batches (or even single units) of personalized products at very competitive prices. If a company replies after 24h, the company needs to pay per message sent.

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Adam Hartung

APRIL 21, 2016

Netflix has been a remarkable company. Because it has accomplished something almost no company has ever done. Think about Blackberry, that gave us the smartphone business then lost it to Apple and its creation of the app market. By the end of 2012 CD shipments were dropping precipitously as streaming viewership was exploding.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 6, 2018

We learn everything we can about a project from stakeholders and competitive products, find ways to research what users want and need, evaluate those needs with stakeholders, modify the project plan, and create solutions which are validated with users before finalizing the product. It outlines exactly what I would expect in a UX job.

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CREATORS

JUNE 19, 2017

Today’s competitive market has made it both trendy?—?and Instead of concentrating on their principal markets and relevant technologies, they cast their net wide? —? a strategy known as “spray and pray” in the venture capital world, which has been adopted by a myriad of companies. and necessary?—?for the “midget”?—?has

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Adam Hartung

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The stock dropped, and pundits went negative on the company. The employee’s family sued the trucking company, at their own expense, and won a $417,000 verdict for lost future wages, pain and suffering and future care needs. It shows a company where management feels it is unquestionable, and a believe its brand is untouchable.

Trends 36

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MSSBTI

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

All you had to pay attention to was perhaps a few competitors and partnerships, and your market was fairly stable. Now you have many products across multiple markets and numerous partners and when you make a decision your competitors are countering. Consider a company that had an international expansion plan in 2012.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Simply put, design thinking is an action-oriented and solution-focused methodology used to solve complex problems, such as those faced by organizations in a highly competitive and rapidly changing environment. The company is also filling its ranks with “design researchers,” ethnographers with MFA degrees. What is Design Thinking?

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Destination Innovation

JANUARY 9, 2017

At 17 he went to University in Canada and subsequently settled in the USA where he founded a company, Zip2, which provided online travel guides. Straight away Musk started another internet company X.com to provide online payments. In 2004 Musk had helped fund the start-up Tesla Motors in order to produce mass market electric cars.

Entrepreneurship 30

Entrepreneurship Company Technology Competition 30

Adam Hartung

JULY 8, 2015

Like his peer CEOs who take on the new role, he has slashed and burned employment, shut down at least one big business, taken massive write-offs, and undertaken at least one wildly overpriced acquisition (Minecraft) that is supposed to be a game changer for the company. And there was no doubt that Windows 8 had missed the mobile market.

Marketing 36

Marketing Competition Leadership Strategy 36

hackerearth

JUNE 29, 2017

Ideas that, if materialized into innovative products or services, align with your organization’s goals, increasing revenues and keeping competition at bay. From wooden suggestion boxes, companies went to emails and surveys in the 1990s. Visualize this: You continuously get incredibly innovative ideas from your own workforce.

Idea Management 40

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Adam Hartung

MAY 20, 2016

While investors cheered the news, at the higher valuation WalMart is still only worth what it was in June, 2012 (just under $70/share.) And the fact that on the balance sheet, at book value, the assets appear to be some $50B lower due to depreciation, and the difference be cost and market value. And that market is barely growing.

Trends 39

Trends Technical Review Marketing Analysis 39

Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

And for that reason it has become an integral criteria in many prescriptive regulations for (higher) education and in increasing numbers also explicitly and implicitly part of curricula (Saavedra & Opfer, 2012). These two extremes – and everything in between – have been topic of discussion ever since. Neck et al.

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Adam Hartung

DECEMBER 30, 2015

But there are 5 major leadership themes from 2015 that can help companies be better in 2016: 1 – Cost cutting, restructurings and stock buybacks do not increase company value – Dow/DuPont. Companies continued borrowing money to buy back their own stock – spending more on repurchases than they made in profits.

Leadership 36

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Adam Hartung

JULY 17, 2015

Unfortunately, these are not good predictors of company performance, and investors should beware. But, unfortunately, these indicators are purely short-term, and are easily manipulated so that they do not reflect the actual performance of the company. For example, McDonald’s sold Chipotle and Boston Market. x 10 = $11.10!

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