{"id":590,"date":"2007-02-10T00:57:11","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T23:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/its-the-strength-of-your-business-process-versus-those-of-your-competitors\/"},"modified":"2007-02-09T16:39:05","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T15:39:05","slug":"its-the-strength-of-your-business-process-versus-those-of-your-competitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2007\/02\/its-the-strength-of-your-business-process-versus-those-of-your-competitors\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the strength of your business process versus those of your competitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some notes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovationtools.com\/Articles\/InterviewDetails.asp?a=253\">this<\/a> interview with Robert Tucker, CEO of The Innovation Resource Consulting Group in Santa Barbara, USA, something valid especially for business model innovation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My message to CEOs is this: You\u2019re in an innovation arms race. It\u2019s <strong>the strength of your business process versus those of your competitors<\/strong>. A cost reduction strategy alone will not cut it. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] <\/p>\n<p>(innovation is] tough to pull it off. CEOs of publicly traded companies, in the U.S. at least, have attention deficit disorder when it comes to innovation.  And who can blame them? Their average tenure is a short three years. Either they drive growth and meet their quarterly numbers and get the stock price up, or they\u2019re out. [&#8230;] So I think a lot of them look at innovation as planting trees that will bear fruit \u2013 for the next guy or gal, not for them, so they\u2019re of two minds.<\/p>\n<p>You ask them, how important is innovation? In one survey, 72 percent of them said that it\u2019s one of their top three priorities. But then the <strong>knowing-doing gap<\/strong> kicks in. They \u201cknow\u201d they\u2019ve got to get better at it. But <strong>what they \u201cdo\u201d is often piecemeal, ad hoc, seat of the pants<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are more gems, so go on and read the interview!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some notes from this interview with Robert Tucker, CEO of The Innovation Resource Consulting Group in Santa Barbara, USA, something valid especially for business model innovation: My message to CEOs is this: You\u2019re in an innovation arms race. It\u2019s the strength of your business process versus those of your competitors. A cost reduction strategy alone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11,4],"tags":[15,212,181,382,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}