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...
Exploring the Rapid Prototyping Model: Accelerating Innovation and Solution Development
Time-to-market and agility are critical in this rapid realm of information technology and product development. The rapid prototype Model has arisen as a dynamic...
Climate-smart Approaches and Alternative Nutrient Sources: Agriculture Trends Businesses Should Watch For in 2023
By Arseniy Olkhovskiy
Our current global agricultural strategy is in desperate need of innovation and overhauling. As the world's population grows steadily, the amount of...
Payment Trends You Need to Know About for Business Growth in 2022 And Beyond
By Olga Karalblina, Head of Payment Product Development at ECOMMPAY
After over two years of shifting buying habits in favour of eCommerce, many consumers have...
Japan’s Hidden Gems: What Are Japanese Companies’ Most Powerful Secrets?
By Mostafa Sayyadi and Michael J. Provitera
Japanese companies such as Sony, Panasonic, Honda, and Toyota remain leaders in leadership development and process management. The...
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...
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...
The Fungibility of Environmental, Social, and Governance Reporting
By Tim Bovy and Ian Hodges
For all organisations, there is the need for ESG reporting to be interoperable because it impacts the ability of...
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...
AI Inside? Five Tipping Points for a New AI-based Business World
By Duco Sickinghe and Jacques Bughin
The “softwarisation” of our economies has continued unabated since Marc Andreessen’s note in its article in 2011 “Why software...
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...
Heavy (Carbon) Footprints: can Subscription Shoes Create a Sustainable Footwear Industry?
By Patrick Reichert and Oscar Vosshage
Sneakers (or “trainers”, as they are known in the UK) are big business – and leave a heavy environmental...
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...
Guy El Khoury: How to Innovate in the Payments Sector
Guy Raymond El Khoury, CEO of Accomplish Financial, talks about innovation in the global payments sector.
Guy El Khoury, CEO of Accomplish Financial and...
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...
“Does Everyone Hear Me OK?”: How to Lead Virtual Teams Effectively
By Sergey Gorbatov
In today’s world, virtual teams are no longer the exception – they’re the norm. Whether your team is fully remote or operating...
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...
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...
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...
Notion Edge UK Rebrands as Prezien, Ushering in a New Era of Innovation and...
London, 22 May 2023 – Notion Edge UK, a leading SAP consultancy and services provider, is thrilled to announce its rebranding to Prezien, marking...
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...
Joint Venture Of Industry Leaders Enable B2B And B2C Businesses To Digitize And Expand...
The realities of the post-pandemic business world grow more evident by the day. It is impossible to dismiss the impact of technology and automated...
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...
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 Models and Global E-commerce
By Syed Balkhi
The e-commerce industry is more volatile than ever. The rise and fall of the global trends influence the e-commerce businesses’ decisions and...
The Evolution of Open Innovation: The Time Has Come to Achieve and Measure Results
By Filippo Frangi
In a world of continuous challenges, Open Innovation has become essential for companies, driving significant transformations and providing support during a period...
Turning a Company Green Can Be a Win-Win for Your Business Model
It may be incredibly fulfilling to run a business yourself, but at the end of the day, you started your company to make money. ...
Making the Case that Everyone is a Disrupter: A Book Review of ALIEN Thinking
By Kyle Scott
Innovation is the key to success and the essential ingredient for staying ahead of the competition. Unfortunately, modern life does not give us...
Contentful – What is Content as a Service?
Businesses use the content as a service (CaaS) model to increase their profits while giving more options to their customers. CaaS means that your...
What Does EVhype Teach Us, and How Can We Consider the Lessons in AI’s...
By Luca Collina MBA
Drawing parallels between the initial exuberance for Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), this paper argues for paying heed to...
Company Brands as Purpose-driven Lived Experience Ecosystems
By Venkat Ramaswamy and Nicholas Ind
With the COVID-19 pandemic curbing global travel in the first quarter of 2020, Airbnb, which had taken twelve years...
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...
SmileDirectClub FY 2020 and Q4 Results Confirm Strength of Its Business Model
More than eight years ago, SmileDirectClub introduced itself to the world as a practical solution to orthodontal care.
A decade earlier, when both were in...
Making 3D printing work for you: Defining Business Models for Additive Manufacturing
By Matthias Holweg, Kai Hoberg, Frits K. Pil, Jakob Heinen
Companies struggle to define the value proposition 3D printing brings: While the opportunities for...
How to Build up New Technology-based Business Models
You’ll get a lot of technology-based business model advice. “Switch to blockchain technology, it shall replace the internet!” or “Hey, metaverse has mighty potential....
Symbian or Uber? Thriving or Collapsing in Digital Business Ecosystems
By Jacques Bughin
"In an avalanche, no snowflake ever felt accountable,"
- Voltairei
What makes successful digital business ecosystems? Beyond a common evolutionary vision, we discuss the...
Google 25 years: The Search Giant Celebrates Anniversary Amidst Unusual Rivalry
By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor
With a sophisticated algorithm and a knack for user experience, Google forever changed how we find knowledge online. But...
Driving Brand Affinity, Consumer Trust, and Business Growth through ESG
By Jim Hardeman
After more than a decade working in the intersection of technology and the food service and hospitality industries, I have witnessed change...
Why Does Apple Stand For The World’s Profitable Company?
Are you wondering how half-eaten apple, i.e., the Apple company, is ruling the whole world? Scroll down if you want to know why Apple...
How to Carry Out a Strategic Business Analysis: Beginner Friendly
Every entrepreneur in the market needs to perform business analysis on their firm. It’s an efficient strategy to ensure that everything is set on...
Deconstructing the Myth of Entrepreneurship
By André Laplume and Sepideh Yeganegi
In the dynamic landscape of entrepreneurship, individual visionaries often hog the spotlight. Yet, beneath this glare lies a startling...
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...
For Creators, the Creator Economy is Just Getting Started in 2025
By Charles Haynes
The creator economy is maturing at an incredible speed. In 2025 we should expect to see a greater breadth of content creators...
Is a Cashless Society Realistic? The Rural Challenge to the Post-Pandemic “New Normal”
By Aaron van Klyton and Juan Fernando Tavera-Mesías
Mobile banking and digital payments (“m-payments”) were already core features of government development policies aimed at beefing...
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...
Tamed Space Startups: How Old Space Hides Behind New Space
The space industry is going through a rapid expansion phase as private companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin pour their billions into transforming it...
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...
Connecting the Unconnected in the Automotive Industry Four Ecosystems that are Reshaping Automotive Industry...
By Hervé Legenvre and Erkko Autio
Connectivity is a defining feature of digitalisation. As companies increase their use of digital technologies in their products and...
How to Create a Business Process Diagram: A Comprehensive Guide
In the intricate realm of business, effective communication and organization are paramount. Whether you're initiating a new project, enhancing existing processes, or facilitating employee...
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