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The Road to Innovation: Capricorn’s Idea Management Journey in the Automotive Aftermarket Industry

Qmarkets

Founded in the mid ‘70s by a handful of Australian service station owners working together to increase their purchasing power with major oil companies, today the organization is a 27,000-strong member-based cooperative supporting businesses in the automotive aftermarket industry in Australia and New Zealand.

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A New Way of Thinking About the Automotive Industry

Qmarkets

Recent trends suggest that the automotive industry might be next on Silicon Valley's disruption list. Besides a surge of auto tech startups and Tesla's success, Silicon Valley's new affair with the automotive industry is heightened by chatter about a secret car project by the most prominent disruptor of them all: Apple. In the U.S.

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Examples of Businesses navigating complexity by fostering Ecosystems.

Paul Hobcraft

The company has embraced a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and adaptability, focusing on cloud services, artificial intelligence, and open collaboration to reduce complexity. The company encourages a culture of experimentation, where teams are free to explore ambitious, innovative ideas.

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The Innovation-Driven Disruption of the Automotive Value Chain (Part 2)

Corporate Innovation

Companies in the automotive value chain are faced with a challenging future. In this blog I explore what the automotive industry has been doing to address the potential disruption, analyze the effects of these initial steps, and provide recommendations on what corporations could be doing better. Volkswagen. Toyota Motors.

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The Innovation-Driven Disruption of the Automotive Value Chain (Part 2)

Corporate Innovation

Companies in the automotive value chain are faced with a challenging future. In this blog I explore what the automotive industry has been doing to address the potential disruption, analyze the effects of these initial steps, and provide recommendations on what corporations could be doing better. Volkswagen. Toyota Motors.

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A New Way of Thinking About the Automotive Industry

Qmarkets

Recent trends suggest that the automotive industry might be next on Silicon Valley's disruption list. Besides a surge of auto tech startups and Tesla's success, Silicon Valley's new affair with the automotive industry is heightened by chatter about a secret car project by the most prominent disruptor of them all: Apple. In the U.S.

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The Innovation-Driven Disruption of the Automotive Value Chain (Part 3)

Corporate Innovation

In a previous post I wrote about the disruptive innovations that have been introduced by Tesla Motors (Tesla) and Uber and presented the steps the automotive industry should be taking in order to address the startup-driven disruption. Startups must realize that they cannot disrupt the entire automotive industry.