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Four Mind-Bending Business Models to Shake Up 2016

Leapfrogging

It’s all about “playing hard to get” with your customers, something pretty counterintuitive in today’s fiercely competitive world. In October 2015, Lee Jeans launched a campaign across 32 cities in China to promote a range of heat-retaining denim. Figuring out how to rise above the competitive noise can be mind-bending in itself.

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Four Mind-Bending Business Models to Shake Up 2016

Leapfrogging

It’s all about “playing hard to get” with your customers, something pretty counterintuitive in today’s fiercely competitive world. In October 2015, Lee Jeans launched a campaign across 32 cities in China to promote a range of heat-retaining denim. Figuring out how to rise above the competitive noise can be mind-bending in itself.

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Virgin just invested in new supersonic jets which travel faster than Concorde

Idea to Value

hours, yet would be cheap enough to run that they would be economically competitive with normal airlines taking more than twice as long. Boom has also reportedly signed a $2 billion (£1.4bn) deal with an unnamed London airline to help it develop its own planes. “This isn’t science fiction, we are actually doing this.

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Stockholm Innovations for the New Year and Beyond

Innovation 360 Group

As it turned out, my trip only coincidentally occurred within days of the 2015 Nobel Awards Ceremonies. Today, the merged Air France and KLM Airlines, once rivals, transport nearly 90 million passengers annually. The result is improved, expanded service abetted by sophisticated behind-the-scenes technology.

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Stockholm Innovations for the New Year and Beyond

Innovation 360

As it turned out, my trip only coincidentally occurred within days of the 2015 Nobel Awards Ceremonies. Today, the merged Air France and KLM Airlines, once rivals, transport nearly 90 million passengers annually. The result is improved, expanded service abetted by sophisticated behind-the-scenes technology.

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Evolution of Hyperloop: Propelling innovation the Elon Musk way

hackerearth

He said the price for a ticket would rival that of an economy airline flight. While Musk was not developing any commercial Hyperloops and plans lay dormant for almost 3 years, SpaceX announced Hyperloop pod competitions in late 2015 to accelerate the development of functional prototypes.

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When Creative Destruction is the Right (or Wrong) Foundation for Innovation

New Markets Advisors

And it’s the knowledge of when to focus on addition and when to focus on replacement that gives companies a competitive edge and a roadmap for growth. industry, company dynamics, competitive advantages, and so on?—?there Even before industries reach peak maturity, competitive threats may start to pop up.