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Qmarkets & Amer Sports – An Innovative Partnership that Created Unprecedented Employee Engagement

Qmarkets

Amer Sports is a large, international, Nasdaq-Helsinki-listed sporting goods company with both B2B and B2C focus in 34 countries. In 2015, Amer implemented Qmarkets’ Q-max platform for crowdsourcing, sharing information, idea development and evaluation, with tools that drove both white and blue-collar participation.

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

The BMI Lab Blog

This is demonstrated by the various success stories in the B2C and B2B market (beyond the above mentioned success stories click here to view more case studies about successful business model innovations). Successful business model innovations can generate more sustainable competitive advantages and represent a major differentiator.

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Why you should care about the Creativity Era

Innovation 360 Group

New customer mind-set, power of influencing other buyers’ opinion and higher expectations , easily communicated through social medias or other channels (TripAdvisor or Booking.com and their respective customer reviews are perfect examples of this revolution in B2C activities). Swedish companies are naturally pushed to go global.

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You Are Being Digitally Disrupted – Do Something About It

The Inovo Group

These are primarily B2C companies (e.g., The ‘point-of-the-spear’ for many companies, especially those in B2C businesses, is the digitalization of marketing and customer relationships. Strategy, not Technology, Drives Digital Transformation ; MITSLoan; Summer 2015. P&G), software (e.g., Adobe), electronics (e.g., Buckley, N.;

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

What if you turned from B2C to B2B (or viceversa)? What if you turned from B2C to B2B (or viceversa)? Airbnb and Ryanair originally designed a service with only B2C customers in mind. Gartner predicts that 7 of the 50 largest multinational retailers will sell 3D printers through their physical and online stores by 2015.

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From product to business model innovation: TICK, the laundry on demand service from Migros.

The BMI Lab Blog

Innovation with a challenge-solving methodology Mibelle Group asked BMI Lab in early 2015 to help them solve this challenge, using our business model innovation methodology. One of those two ideas was an idea named M Wash, a new service-based business model, targeting the end-customer, and launched as a new startup in late 2015.

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