A New Model for the Future of Customer Relationships
By Yoram (Jerry) Wind and Catharine Hays, with Alexa de los Reyes
The fundamental relationships among brands, media, and people are being transformed at an...
After After-Sales: New Business Models Tempt, Fail Industry
By Olaf Plötner
The after-sales-based business models of industrial enterprises are endangered. Simultaneously, modern data-based technologies enable the development of complex service solutions – so...
Fun & Games: Business Models for Innovation
By Gregory Gimpel
While many brilliant ideas come from start-ups with unsustainable business models, well-established firms suffer from an inability to innovate, especially in regulated...
Creative Strategy and the Business of Design
By Douglas Davis
Creatives get various demands and design requests from clients, but there’s this exact same request hidden in all of it: “Solve my...
The Right Business Model At The Right Time
By Adam Bock and Gerard George
The combination of globalisation, Moore’s law and ubiquitous information have transformed industries into fluid, rapidly-changing landscapes. Today’s competitor is tomorrow’s...
An Innovator’s Midsummer Dream Come True
By Ulrich A.K. Betz , VP, Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubator, Merck
Organisations are eagerly looking for new ways to boost their innovation capabilities and...
A Primer on Theoretically Exploring the Field of Business Model Innovation
By Oliver Gassmann, Karolin Frankenberger and Roman Sauer
Companies like Amazon, Uber, and Skype have become business strategy icons and the way they transformed industries...
Corporate Venturing: Challenges and best practices of large firms innovating with start-ups
By Mª Julia Prats, Josemaria Siota, Celeste Saccomano Tommaso Canonici and Xavier Contijoch
Innovation in large corporations, particularly the practice of corporate venturing to innovate with start-ups, is...
NOTHING IS FREE: Data-driven optimisation unlocks freemium business models’ real potential
By Stefan Wagner and Julian Runge
In today’s digital era when the marginal cost of (re)production and distribution of products and services tend to be...
Second-hand Luxury: Should Personal Luxury Brands Sell Pre-owned Products?
By Jean-Noël Kapferer
As luxury brands seek to protect their symbolic capital and prestige, entering resale markets is a strategy to be carefully considered before...
TRIP Framework: Re-Thinking Organisational Competitiveness in Digital Spheres
By Mike Cooray and Rikke Duus
Across industries, organisations are in search of new ways to enhance their competitiveness in the midst of digital disruption...
Robot Travel Agency: A Warm and Technological Welcome
The time is ripe for technology to bridge the information gap between newly arrived travelers, their holiday accommodation, and their chosen tourist destination. Enter...
Transpitality: How Autonomous Driving Technology Will Reshape the Industry Landscape
By Steve Lee, Won-Yong Oh, Irene Yi
There has been increasing attention to self-driving cars, but business is still missing some key insights into how...
3 Important Dynamics Of Business Environment
The business environment comprises of all the factors that affect and support the business activities. It consists of both internal factors as well as...
MBSIV: A Framework for Creating a Sustainable Innovation Culture
By Kristine Marin Kawamura and Simon L. Dolan
Innovation has been consistently found to be the most important characteristic associated with organisational and market success....
Nicolas Krafft and the Why and How of Haircare Products Beyond 2020
Ten years ago, the hair care product industry was comfortable and familiar. Stylists stood faithfully by their salons, salons ordered exclusively from professional hair...
The Sectors Which Spent the Most on Innovation in 2020
In order to stay ahead of the game, innovation is key. This is a lesson successful businesses not only recognize but continually apply, and...
The Future of Digital Identity Verification
Interview with Andreas Bodczek, CEO of IDnow
The digital revolution is making a significant impact on every industry, and IDnow, being the leading provider of...
Finding New Products by Vision: Eurodrug Innovates in a Sector Dominated by “Big Pharma”
How does a medium-sized company stand out in a highly concentrated market with rapidly increasing capital requirements? Eurodrug is an international pharmaceutical company active...
Zilch raises $10m to scale its unique BNPL Anywhere offering
1st September 2020, London – Zilch announces $10m in new funding to continue scaling its unique over-the-top Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) business.
The London-based...
Building the smarter future of banking & financial services
By Alexey Chalimov
The entire industry of financial services in 2021 is undergoing massive digitalization. New technologies allow for better personalization for customers and effective optimization...
E-commerce Explained: The Four Types of Business Models
The pandemic has accelerated a migration toward the digital realm from businesses of all natures and sectors as entrepreneurs were forced to find alternatives...
Strategies for Sudden Shock- Market Rewards Good Performance Also During Tough Times
By Olli-Pekka Lumijärvi, Olga Nissen and Alexandra Oborina
Every company’s strategy aims to grow revenue, profit, and market capitalization. When global economy was accelerating, these...
Partnering to Grow in the Digital Era
By Ina Sebastian, Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner
For many companies today the most important goal is growth. One of the big opportunities for achieving...
Robots Are Cleaning Up – And Much More Besides!
Interview with Claus Risager, CEO at Blue Ocean Robotics
The potential of robots to assist and even replace humans in a variety of work areas...
Organizational Preparedness with COVID-19: Strategic Planning and Human Creativity
By Yingying Zhang-Zhang and Arup Varma
COVID-19 arrived with force and unpredictability, dragging sectors and industries to an unprecedented and uncertain situation. Companies and organizations reacted, but most...
Keeping Resilience in VUCA era: The Organization Should Learn from the Water’s Wisdom
By Weixu Ding and Jianhua Mao
The COVID-19 outbreak started at the end of 2019 that has hurt the world's economy, cultural exchanges, people's healthy...
What Banking Sector Can Gain the Most from Digital Innovations?
Digital innovations have disrupted numerous industries, and banking is no exception. Digitalisation has introduced us to online banking, contactless payments, and many other services.Banks...
Focus on Value: What Your Company Does Matters more than Where It Sits
By Rachael Bartels and Kathleen O’Reilly
Companies everywhere must find new sources of value creation both inside and outside traditional industry boundaries.
For decades, industry definitions...
How to be Successful in an Adult eCommerce Niche?
More than ever, shoppers are turning towards eCommerce for their needs. After all, it’s far more convenient to order something online and receive a...
Strategies During Pandemic for Restaurant and Café Businesses Using Business Model Canvas
By Johannes Boroh
There are many articles about business strategies on coping with the COVID-19 pandemic published in various journals, magazines, newspapers, and so forth....
Destination taxability and its impacts for EU e-commerce
By Christiaan van der Valk
Changes are on the horizon for import tax this July as the EU rolls out the 2021 EU VAT e-commerce...
The Psychology of Start-Ups
By Adrian Furnham
Every generation likes to believe that they are different from those that came before them – “new and improved” as advertisers like...
Will China lead the twin transformation post-covid?
By Jacques Bughin and Sybille Berjoan
The Covid-19 pandemic has led many corporations to retrench in the short term—but the saying goes that no matter...
Scandinavian Startups Poised To Hit It Big
Over the last few years, Scandinavian startups have been performing excellently. Stockholm and Helsinki regularly feature in the top 15 best startup hubs due...
Circular Business Models Are Helping Developing Countries Take Climate Action Beyond Aid
By Christian Jahn
With the COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow underway, action on climate change has never been more urgent. Lower income countries attending...
6 Notable Innovations in The Nanotechnology Sector Worth Knowing
For decades, nanotechnology has held its head up high as the next big thing to watch out for. First introduced in 1959, nanotechnology has...
VidaXL: Pioneer and eCommerce Business Giant
It all started with two selling items on eBay. Sixteen years later, the business has transformed into the global retailing giant, vidaXL. The eCommerce...
A Business Wealth Creation Roadmap
By Christopher H. Volk
We live in unprecedented times where emerging businesses seem to mint billionaires on a regular basis. One would have to look...
The Future of Management Education: Re-thinking Business Models.
By Luis Toro Dupouy, PhD
A business model describes how an organization creates, distributes, and captures value in a profitable manner. The model should cover...
On the Need to Reinvent Your Business: Companies’ Survival Depends on Different Phases of...
By David De Cremer
Organisations are born, conquer market share and, if successful, grow. In this process, it’s equally important that they are aware of...
Organising to Address Global Customers
By Noel Capon, Mark Heil, Gus Maikish
As globalisation increases, corporations around the world seek better ways to address their global customers. The geographic-area model...
Crucials Elements of a Business Model Canvas
The most crucial element of a business model canvas is the value proposition. It determines the fundamental offering of the business and drives its...
Best Ways To Earn Extra Money This Year
Everybody needs extra cash. There are always more bills to pay, things that need to be bought for the kids or yourself, and repairs...
3-steps to Commercialising Intellectual Property in the Creative Industries
By Gene Shill
The value of intangible goods is making an unprecedented contribution to the global economy as the world becomes progressively digitised, with many...
The Current Frontier in Industrial Manufacturing: Bringing Software Systems to Market
By Bianca Schmitz, Olaf Plötner, Viktor Jarotschkin and Johannes Habel
Industrial manufacturers increasingly market software systems that help customers optimize value chain processes. However, many...
Customer-Driven Disruption
By Suman Sarkar
Suman Sarkar has advised leaders at dozens of disrupting Fortune 500 companies. Executives, he says, focus too much on technology and short-term...
How the Next Wave of Innovators will Change the Fabric of the World
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier and Vedrana Savic
The next wave of innovation will see products and services combining technology from across the digital, physical and biological...
Business After COVID 19: What Will Change
Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world, businesses have been turned upside down in almost all aspects. Most have been forced to send a...
Key Changes In Management: Implications From The Corona Crisis, Particularly On Family Businesses And...
By Dr. Peter Lorange
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In this paper I shall discuss what I see as some major implications for management practices when it comes to several...
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