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Are Corporate Innovation Centers The Last Hope for Companies Too Big To Fail?

Companies once deemed “too big to fail” are increasingly exposed to failure. The threat of disruption is everywhere. Startups are taking on the Goliaths in every market. Scores of malls across the United States are in collapse. Many household brand names are losing ground or even shutting completely. Regardless of industry, businesses face digital Darwinism, the evolution of technology and markets. Disruption is just a matter of when, where and why. To compete, executives must make tough decisions but more so, they must look to new horizons for new insight and direction. Whether companies thrive or cower in the face of digital Darwinism is a choice.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:24:30-07:00February 9th, 2017|Categories: Enabling Factors, Report, Strategies|Tags: AI, asia, big data, case study, cloud, Competition, corporate innovation, corporate innovation centers, cyber-security, digital era, digital innovation, digital platform, disruptive innovation, ecosystem, europe, fintech, global market, in-depth article, innovation center, innovation centers, innovation hub, IoT, large companies, MNC, silicon valley, startup, talent management, Technology|

The Digital Tsunami

These days, when migrants arrive at a refugee camp, one of the first things they ask for is access to WiFi and electricity to recharge their cell phones. Their smartphone is as basic a resource for survival as food and water. This is a vivid reminder of the fact that we are fully immersed in a digital world.

Ideascale2021-12-14T06:29:51-08:00January 26th, 2017|Categories: Column & Opinion|Tags: 4G, 5G, AI, automation, automotive industry, big data, china, connected car, cyber-security, cyber-war, digital, digital era, digital platform, digitization, disruptive technology, driverless cars, europe, finance, fintech, global market, globalization, healthcare, healthcare innovation, in-depth article, IoT, IT, medical innovation, mobile, open source, Platform Disruption, privacy, smartphone, social media, switzerland, Technology, transformation, transportation|

Innovators: Are You Smart Enough For 2017?

We can all see that global commerce has evolved, innovative excellence has advanced and entrepreneurialism has accelerated. Just to make things more interesting, all of this change happened extremely rapidly. But how about our own intelligence? Are we really smart enough for 2017 and beyond? Ambition encourages us to reach for success, so let’s test our own entrepreneurial intelligence to see if we’re up to the challenges of 2017.

Ideascale2021-12-14T06:28:13-08:00January 20th, 2017|Categories: Column & Opinion|Tags: Change Management, core competencies, digital era, entrepreneurs, knowledge sharing, speed of innovation, Technology|

Disruption Planning 2- Creating Options and Pathways

In this in-depth article Haydn Shaughnessy discusses why traditional ROI decision making is becoming irrelevant and how options planning is a key element of competitiveness. In these uncertain times firms need to recognise and analyse their options thoroughly in order to be ready for inevitable change.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:14:26-08:00December 6th, 2016|Categories: In-Depth Article, Strategies|Tags: apple, blue ocean strategy, Business Model Innovation, business plan, case study, Change Management, decision making, digital era, digital platform, disruption, disruptive innovation, google, horizontal innovators, idea management, in-depth article, Innovation Culture, innovation planning, innovation skills, Innovation Strategy, IoT, opportunity, options planning, platform, Platform Disruption, platform transformation, process innovation, Product Development, product pipeline, ROI, service innovation, steve jobs, transformation|

Artificial Intelligence is an important Component of Digital Transformation

We are all part of a giant transformation, “digital world is eating up physical world” – enterprise, individual, activity, relationship, emotion, etc., almost every entity around us is getting through some degree of digitization. Michael Wei, Director of Samsung AI research center in the US, discusses the current developments, activities and challenges in artificial intelligence and its part in the digital transformation agenda.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:06:38-08:00November 2nd, 2016|Categories: Interview|Tags: AI, artificial intelligence, big data, digital era, digital innovation, digital transformation, Innovation Management, Internet of things, Interview, IoT, Samsung, Technology, user experience|

Innovation that Matters: Tomorrow’s Winning Cities

Innovation that Matters examines and ranks 25 cities’ readiness to capitalize on the inevitable shift to a digital economy. It carves out critical trends every U.S. city leader can learn from and offers recommendations local leaders can adopt to strengthen their region’s digital competitiveness.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:02-08:00May 31st, 2016|Categories: News, Report|Tags: case study, digital era, download, economy, ecosystem, entrepreneurs, in-depth article, report, research, silicon valley, startup, trend, USA|

A New Management Innovation – the Chief Digital Officer

Global business is currently undergoing one of the most significant changes seen in the last thirty years. What commenced as a computer hardware revolution in the 1980s has now given way to a software revolution that is impacting every organisation, a revolution which is accelerating at such a rate that many businesses are having difficulty keeping pace.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:16:20-07:00December 26th, 2013|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: chief digital officer, digital era, digital footprint, digitizing, it management, management, process improvement, Technology|

The Driving Forces of Change

Six major forces are driving change in today’s world. Developing a successful innovation program requires that your organization understand and master all of them.

Ideascale2021-12-20T16:32:40-08:00July 18th, 2013|Categories: Enabling Factors, Serialized Book, The Innovation Master Plan|Tags: Change Management, commoditization, digital era, digital innovation, digital platform, global market, globalization, security, serialized book, social media, society, The Innovation Master Plan, the innovation master plan book|

Engagement Is Key to Business Performance: Digital Innovation as Catalyst

Booz&Co wrote in their article “The Social Life of Brands” on Strategy+Business that the value of a brand is linked with the relationships it has with its customers, creating and retaining them. For marketing, its fundamental task is managing these relationships. In a recent research by Gallup the results were striking, a 240 percent boost in performance was achieved when both employees and customers were enaged. This is exactly, in a highly technological driven business environment, digital innovation is the catalyst that improves engagement and provide means to manage relationships better, faster and in a cheaper way though digital.

Ideascale2021-12-05T09:09:21-08:00November 23rd, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: automotive industry, branding, case study, Competition, competitiveness, customer engagement, customer experience, customer experience management, data analysis, digital era, digital innovation, digital platform, Employee Engagement, feedback, in-depth article, marketing, marketing campaign, social media, Volvo|

Immersive Virtual Worlds as Innovation Platforms

Can you improve the innovation process as well as reducing the cost of engaging with users, developing new ideas and prototyping and testing solutions by making use of virtual environments? Jeffrey Philips and Jena Ball point the way.

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:20:47-08:00May 26th, 2011|Categories: Life Cycle Processes|Tags: 3d, digital era, digital platform, gamification, idea testing, immersive experience, innovation life cycle processes, innovation platforms, meeting, prototyping, virtual reality, vr|

Large Firms and the Growth of Start-up Culture: a Key Dependency in the Age of Innovation

Steven Klepper, the recipient of the 2011 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, has spent all of his professional career looking at how innovation and the fate of large firms are so closely intertwined. His conclusions on how large firms, start-ups and clusters interact should be required reading for innovation managers and strategists everywhere.

Ideascale2021-12-02T14:54:34-08:00March 14th, 2011|Categories: Strategies|Tags: automotive industry, clusters, Competition, digital era, ecosystem, enterprise innovation, failure to innovate, industry innovation, innovation cluster, Innovation Culture, innovation process, large companies, micro economics, nano economics, silicon valley, startup, startup culture, USA|