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Supply chain innovation – only through value creation!

Norbert Bol

Therefore I have started the online course “Supply chain management: a learning perspective” by Professor Bowon Kim from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Supply chain management: A learning perspective. Coordinating an innovation in supply chain management. Norbert Bol. Literature.

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Welcome to our Webinar on Startup Scouting!

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But how do you learn as a big company from the small ones and manage new trends and cutting-edge technologies that create competitive advantage? German: June 27, 2018 at 10 AM (GMT +2h). English: June 27, 2018 at 4 PM (GMT +2h). contact-form-7] The post Welcome to our Webinar on Startup Scouting!

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Creative and critical thinking in innovation

Norbert Bol

Design thinking was suggested, but also it was suggested that the issues in our current economy should not be thought of as problems to be solved, but should be approached as conditions to be managed as if they were a chronic disease. Wechsler et al. Apprently in practice this does not look always as an independent process. Norbert Bol.

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The sustainable innovation paradox

Norbert Bol

2018) call this the paradox of sustainable innovation. 2018) introduce the term Eroom effect (Moore’s law backward) where improved price performance due to technological advances are outweighed by increasing costs of regulatory approval and other commercialization costs. Managing means: to keep all stakeholders at the same speed.

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A happy and healthy 2019! Making sustainable choices

Norbert Bol

2018) show there can be many hurdles in our decision making proces that prevent us from choosing eco-friendly or sustainable products and services (see graph). Whatever in life we are planning to do to be happy and healthy, we have different options to choose when we are buying a product or a service. The short answer is no. Shim et al.

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7 hurdles that prevent breakthrough sustainable innovations. How clients can help to overcome these hurdles!

Norbert Bol

In the December 2018 issue of the scientific journal for Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy, Erdelmeier (2018) presents 7 hurdles from two start-up initiatives for sustainable chemistry. Erdelmeier (2018) also presents possible solutions and improvements to overcome these hurdles. Norbert Bol. Literature. Erdelmeier, I.

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Are you prepared for the Industry 4.0? How you can #HackYourWayIn

Norbert Bol

Traditionally opposing ideas are managed by seeking compromises or by choosing one idea at the expense of the other. Integrated thinking is a combination of different types of thinking that is able to deal with complexity where different and opposing ideas exist. Severengiz et al., HackYourWayIn #IntegratedThinking. Norbert Bol. Literature.