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Amazon’s Innovative Answer to Same-Day Delivery Bottlenecks

IdeaScale

In 2013, Amazon entered into an agreement with the U.S. Companies like Amazon rely on a strong innovation strategy, particularly in a time of low unemployment. By innovating the last mile of delivery, the company hopes to strengthen its competitive edge while reducing its reliance on non-Amazon-associated delivery.

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Implementing Open Innovation: Insights from Ariana Smetana of AccelIQ Digital

Qmarkets

Open innovation is a core strategy for transformative growth amongst a growing number of enterprise companies around the world. After that, I decided to chart a different course by exploring my other interests and developing my creative side, which I expressed by founding an interior design and workspace strategy firm in 2010.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Focus stage: Growth Published: 2013 more…. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2013 more…. Focus stage: Growth Published: 2013 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2013 more…. Focus stage: Seed Published: 2013 more…. Design Competitions. Focus stage: Seed Published: 2013 more…. The Lean Enterprise.

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Open-Source Innovation: Insights from Ariana Smetana of AccelIQ Digital

Qmarkets

Open-source innovation (or simply ‘open innovation’) is developing into a core strategy for transformative growth amongst enterprise companies around the world. Staying Competitive : In today’s rapidly changing landscape, leveraging external innovations can help firms remain at the cutting edge and adapt to shifts in the market.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

At the beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. Another example is the recently introduced strategy framework by Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha from BCG. Platform business models tend to affect, oftentimes disrupt, multiple industries over time.

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Testing New Business Ideas: Learnings from OWLET [Part 1]

Strategyzer Innovation

We often use the OWLET team video from the International Business Model Competition in 2013 to illustrate how to de-risk new ideas, cheaply and quickly. Let's unpack together the most important principles to follow when testing new business ideas. What can we learn from Owlet on testing new business ideas?

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Decisive to be innovative

Norbert Bol

Last week in Strategy Blogs we discussed the topic of innovation speed and how this positively relates to organizational performance. To improve our decision making, Heath & Heath (2013) proposed to: widen the options; reality-test our assumptions; attain distance before deciding and prepare to be wrong. Norbert Bol. Literature.