Tom Davenport on the various kinds of innovations. He categorizes innovation styles into 1. Product innovation 2. Service innovation aka new ways to deliver services 3. Process innovation like internal business processes, or the ways of delivering products and services to customers. 4. Managerial innovation like the exploration and adoption of new approaches for managing […]
Ein kleiner aber lesenswerter Artikel in der aktuellen FTD, der aber die Ziele und die Strategie von Microsoft rund um digitale Inhalte ganz gut verdeutlicht.
Read this really interesting piece on ITW (Illinois Tool Works), touching points like growing through m&a’s, complexity management of organizational structures and above all the overall business model that guides them in their ways … ITW owes its outsize achievements to an unorthodox business model. Like many old-line outfits, ITW gets most of its growth […]
An old text, still worthwhile … noting the dangers of commoditization and the role of bold innovation … holding that [consumer/retail] manufacturers are too much concentrating on plain “vanilla” products, well, innovative products are losing vs. incremental enhancements. one little gem: “I think it comes down to people being chicken,” […] “In a way everyone […]
Auch etablierte Spieler verlieren gelegentlich den Überblick welche Geschäftsmodelle Sinn machen … siehe bspw. diesen Artikel über neue Geschäftsmodellideen bei AOL. AOL hat offensichtlich Schwierigkeiten eine klare Linie zu finden: Teilangebote wie in-store.com waren auch bisher schon allen Internetsurfern zugänglich, während die Unternehmensstrategie eigentlich darauf setzt sich im Internet als hochwertiger Bezahldienst zu etablieren, nun […]
A nice section at Business Week on Business Innovation and yes, Design New design strategies and a fresh cadre of innovation gurus are helping executives build creative corporations Some of the articles are older, still this collection looks really promising …
This course looks wildly interesting … a six-day program for Cxx of companies that search future growth, focussing on organizational aspects of (business model) innovation management and more: Driving Strategic Innovation will change the way you, as a business leader, think about innovation and technology strategy, giving you a deeper, richer, more comprehensive roadmap for […]
