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5 Excuses of Companies that Don’t Innovate (And How to Overcome Them)

Moves the Needle

” To go one layer deeper, we hear these on a regular basis: This doesn’t work in b2c. Eric Ries came from b2c.). Instead of operating under fear, work collaboratively with internal groups to create guidelines for running experiments. “This doesn’t work in my industry.” This doesn’t work in b2b.

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My 5 S for future Innovation: Smart, Stacks, Scale, Storage, and Software

Paul Hobcraft

What greater validation that this, that this takeover has the “legs to run” was that Siemens offered Mendix a lot of autonomy, significant financial backing and the wish to see the present roadmap deepen, broaden and keep Mendix strongly in a leadership position. IoT (B2C) is well-ahead of IIoT (B2B).

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You Are Being Digitally Disrupted – Do Something About It

The Inovo Group

There is an apparent split between companies that find it easy to build a collaborative, customer-centric culture (smaller, more agile startup-type companies) and those that don’t (i.e., These are primarily B2C companies (e.g., Moreover, there is a spectrum of leadership commitment that will affect the path your journey takes.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 2

Tim Kastelle

Research confirms large companies as well as entrepreneurs to rate the importance of collaborative forms of innovation higher for the future. Further, the ROI (return on investment) of collaborative innovation was found to have been increasing recently. The coming years, probably decades, will be determined by two major shifts.

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

These communities stimulate social engagement around the product through participation in forums, sharing, collaboration or even user-driven innovation by co-creating new products. Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. Interactions are complex and unpredictable.

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The Business Model of the Future Is People-to-People

Tullio Siragusa

To succeed in the new environment of tomorrow, the organization itself must undergo a significant and radical change from the traditional B2B, or B2C, or B2B2C, to become a people-to-people business. By focusing on people, companies can outcompete and outperform everyone else because to serve people you have to know and own why you exist.

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The Business Model of the Future Is People-to-People

Tullio Siragusa

To succeed in the new environment of tomorrow, the organization itself must undergo a significant and radical change from the traditional B2B, or B2C, or B2B2C, to become a people-to-people business. By focusing on people, companies can outcompete and outperform everyone else because to serve people you have to know and own why you exist.