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Dear Innovator, We like to invite you to participate in a survey on how those leading and managing innovation in their organizations think about the innovation function. We recognize that your time is precious, but please note that the survey will take less than 10 minutes to complete and that your opinions are very valuable to us. To thank you for completing the survey, we will share with you

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Every two years a collaborative platform of The Consumer Goods Forum, Capgemini, HP and Microsoft formulate key trends for the Value Chain. Together with top Executives from the Retail and Manufacturers Industry the third version is submitted. In 2006 the first report 2016: A Vision of the Future Value Chain came out. The platform worked with 80 Executives of Global Organizations to collect the

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"When a word is used too many times a year and the context in which the word is used broadens in every article, it is very likely that the management community develops a sort of immunity. There are multiple examples of management terminology being coined as fast as falling out of favor. Co-creation, as a phenomenon, was destined to have a similar lifecycle. The question that arises in such

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As the knowledge partner of the World Innovation Forum, Capgemini Consulting has recently completed its global innovation survey on the current state of innovation. The study offers a unique perspective by looking at the differences in behavior of 375 innovation leaders vis-à-vis laggards across five key areas (Innovation Strategic Outlook, Innovation Capabilities, Innovation Technology,

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In my advisory practice we work a lot with large corporate companies. In our annual Global Innovation Survey we see the focus on Business Model Innovation and co-creation in the value chain getting more attention every year. The far majority of corporate companies invest in new business models to create sustainable value in a different way. A growing area for changing the current business model

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I mentioned many times the high impact on business value of innovating the Business Model of a company. We choose 2 years ago to adapt the Business Model Framework of Alex Osterwalder. With my team we adjusted the framework in more detail while working with a significant amount of our key clients. The results are far above any expectations. This is the reason that we as Capgemini choose to

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As I wrote the last time, during the credit crisis companies continue proactively looking for innovations to growth their business value. However, the credit crisis has significantly changed the perspective of the consumer. Before the crisis the consumers are mainly driven by an almost unconscious impulsive buying behavior now the consumer’s attitude is mainly focused on deliberately making

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Capgemini published a survey where 375 executives from Leading Innovator companies shared their vision on: Innovation as a Competitive Success Factor During Times of Economic Recession: a short inroduction of the report ...Capgemini Consulting, in conjunction with HSM, the sponsors of the World Innovation Forum, conducted a survey of more than 375 executives on the subject of innovation.

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For many of us, Innovation is still related to New Technology (Research and Development). From the global Laboratories the new technology race is heating up: Nano-thechnology, BIO-technology and several non existing technology combinations will bring huge future applications. Interesting surveys shows us that in past history economic crunch, large (global) wars will boost new technology. We can

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International researches (as from 2006 up to and including most recent) indicates from that the members of the Council of Governing Board continue consider Innovation as the way to growth increase and secure continuity. The Credit Crisis hardly change anything in these thoughts.The Top 3 most significant challenges for Innovation still remains: successful organizing innovation, increasing the

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Up to now I focused my writings on innovation of Business Models of companies and their role in the Value Chain. The credit crunch and its effect on the real economy asked for a reflection on how to innovate the current Macro Business Models and the possibility to create a so called ideal Super Business Model on macro level.The Russian Economist Nikolai Dmitrievitsj Kondratieff discovered in the

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In many organizations Innovation is the domain of Research and Development or Marketing. How come that Purchasing is almost not on the radar screen of innovation? And what may be the impact of this?In the Master Thesis Strategic Purchasing and Innovation, written by Casper ten Cate from the University of Utrecht (Science & Innovation Management) in collaboration with Capgemini Consulting, an

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In December Capgemini organized a round table session for clients in corporation with the Center for Inquiry of the United Nations and Mint Consultancy. The topic of the event was: “An more active role for companies in creating an open innovate society is vital for solving global social issues”Several trends and developments describe the rise of an open innovative society. In this kind of society

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Many strategy knowledge centers like Insead, Havard Business School and McKinsey Global Institute are publishing many white papers on how to design (Innovation) Strategies. Yes, it is good stuff, but the key hurdle for a successful Innovation Strategy is the implementation of the design.During implementation you will face the daily hurdles of Business Transformation. When the ambition level of

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So far we have seen Innovation as a luxury in growing economy. What will happen if we are facing with severe down scaling of the real economy? Do the current innovations methodologies like Blue Ocean Strategy, Open Innovation, Co-Cration, Brand Building helps companies to Innovate without having money for investments available?I think this will be the time to change significantly our vision on

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In many different Innovation Management Surveys the key issue still is successful implementation. The theories will promise outstanding results but the hardness of reality faces us with tough hurdles to cross.The theory “Blue Ocean Strategy” is one of the examples which supplies managers with a perfect model to change market boundaries. In my opinion the implementation part is still very

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In the engagements with our client we face that business model innovation is a complex issue. Many aspects are involved and these are also intertwined. As I wrote in articles earlier we use a Business Model Innovation Framework based on Oosterwalder. We use this framework to facilitate the in depth discussion with our clients according to the systematic approach to create more business value. In

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In my Innovation Team we work with clients on innovation and the influence on their current business model. We analyze the current business model using a framework based on the ideas of Alexander Osterwalder. We focus on the business model impact of the innovation portfolio of the client. In addition to the financial (Rational) performance of the business model we analyze the emotional side of

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In many large companies managing Innovation is like being just one of the many risk avoiding grey suits. But working on Innovation supposed to be fun, different, free-thinking. Do you recognise yourself in the following situation:You are responsible for the start of or running a complex and long term innovation program or portfolio with clear innovation objectives and targetsThis portfolio exits

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This week the Benelux Discontinuous Innovation Lab organised a Kick-off Workshop to start an active link between the academic world and companies active in new innovation approaches. On behalf of Capgemini I took a membership in this DILab.The main objective of this new community is to look for insights, experiences in searching, selecting and implementing new ways to realise discontinue

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In many cases Technology Driven Innovation is an important driver for change in doing business. But what kind of technology are we talking about? Davila described in “Making Innovation Work” a distinction of three kinds of technology changes; namely in product and service offerings, process technologies and enabling technologies.Enabling technology facilitates the speed of execution of the

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Eric Bun is a real innovator of what I call the new generation. He is astonishing good in building communication formats in an innovative way. The latest achievement is a book review of "Brand Hijack'' from Axel Wipperfürth. He showed that a book review is not simple a plain text with an opinion but also a way of bringing the message across!

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In the first part of The great Battle, I discussed the battle between the Robber Barons and the Innovation Knights. Robber Barons are companies that still perceive human capital as a cost item or production resource. This unilateral perspective kills innovation. Innovation Knights are the leaders of the future. Leaders that operate with self assurance from authentic values and modesty. I describe

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The realisation of an innovation ambition level revolves around the ability to translate the desired value proposition in concrete terms for the customer. The success of innovation is not determined by the innovators in the organisation. What matters is the degree to which the customers adopt the new value proposition!A company’s ability to innovate is divided into four different (innovation)

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Knowing where you are as a companyCompanies embark upon innovation initiatives with a great deal of energy and a high ambition level. It is not unusual for the enthusiasm to fade as time goes by. The company is often unaware of the success factors of innovation and of its own ability to define the preconditions for success.An example from the Utilities sector …In the Utilities sector in the

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Growing complexity in correlation between trends and developmentsSo far companies have in particular followed those specific trends and developments that are an extension of their current value proposition. KPN for example has for a very long time concentrated on monitoring and helping to develop above all technological (telephony) developments and translating them for the Dutch market. It is

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Published on April 20, 2007 at capgemini.comThree innovators from Capgemini Netherlands - Ron Tolido, CTO Continental Europe Asia Pacific, Hans van Grieken, business innovation officer, and Koen Klokgieters, business innovation officer Consulting Services - delve into multiple burning questions on business innovation. You can also read Capgemini Netherlands’ transformation process around mobility

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In part I of the Great Battle, I discussed the struggle between the Robber Barons and the Knight Innovators, or the struggle between the hedge funds and the organisations of the future. While the Robber Barons see human capital as a cost entry, in the (near) future the difference between consumers, manufacturers, owners, financiers and developers will blur. The new organisational forms are borne

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A new force has arisen: the neo-capitalists. These hedge funds and private equities are trading in companies, aiming for short-term financial gains. They are not intending to create sustainable value for the various parties involved. Focusing on fast deals with a lot of borrowed money, they raid the world market looking for financial profit. The process is as simple as it is effective: encouraged

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Companies must innovate continuously in order to survive in an increasingly complex market, and many companies choose to have extremely high innovation ambitions. To be able to meet that ambition, the company will set up a central innovation department, appoint a senior VP Innovation, put aside a budget and set stiff targets. The question that remains is: how do we link up the rest of the

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Last Thursday, 29 March, I (Koen Klokgieters) was present as one of three guest speakers at the LogInn Event 2007. This annual conference is organised by and for the MBA students at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. The theme was SCM and Innovation Management, and I was asked to indicate which issues relate to both SCM and innovation. I thought it would be a good idea to shine a light on the

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