Kaizor Innovation is a strategic innovation consultancy focused on the China market. It helps clients innovate through corporate training, innovation strategy consulting, and China user research. The document discusses Kaizor's approach to innovation, which emphasizes understanding user needs, flexible and people-centered solutions, and a holistic ecosystem. It provides examples of how Kaizor has helped clients like a furniture company and Hong Kong Post Office innovate through user research, co-creation workshops, and a user-centered design process.
IBM embraces open and collaborative innovation to stay ahead of changing market needs. It defines innovation as the intersection of invention and insight that creates value. IBM has over 500,000 employees working in 190 countries and has acquired over 100 companies since 2003 to complement its portfolio. It leverages its global workforce and partners through open innovation models like jams and hackathons. Social software is heavily used within IBM to connect employees, share knowledge, and generate new ideas.
Trabaha is an online marketplace that allows homeowners to post home service requests and receive competitive bids from local service providers. Homeowners can view provider ratings/reviews, ask questions, and view portfolios. This streamlines the process of finding providers and saves homeowners both time and money compared to traditional methods. Trabaha aims to become a one-stop shop for homeowners' service needs through its online request and bidding platform. The company's target markets are homeowners aged 30-65 in Texas, North Carolina, Florida, Illinois, and Missouri.
This document provides an overview of Kaizor Innovation Limited, a strategic innovation consultancy based in Hong Kong and China. It discusses the company's user research activities in various Chinese cities and with clients in different industries. The document also outlines Kaizor Innovation's services such as user experience design, executive training, and design team training. It shares insights from research projects with design schools and examples of product design workshops. Finally, the document examines myths about starting businesses in China and factors to consider when choosing between Hong Kong and Shanghai.
Selling the Right Products to the China MarketElaine
This document discusses selling products in China and working with Chinese companies. It provides an overview of Kaizor Innovation, a strategic consultancy that helps clients understand the China market, develop products for Asia, and receive training in user-centered innovation. The document then covers understanding Chinese consumers, examples of Western brands in China, marketing approaches, cultural differences between Western and Chinese business models, and common surprises Westerners face working in China.
Kaizor Innovation is a strategic innovation consultancy focused on the China market. It helps clients innovate through corporate training, innovation strategy consulting, and China user research. The document outlines Kaizor's approach to innovation, which emphasizes understanding user needs, co-creation, and a human-centered design process. It provides examples of how Kaizor helped redesign services at the Hong Kong Post Office to be more user-friendly through workshops and research.
Kaizor Innovation is an international strategic innovation consultancy based in Hong Kong and China. It helps clients build R&D and design innovation capabilities in Asia, provides training on user-centered innovation, and helps understand market needs in China to identify new product opportunities. The company was founded in 2002 by Elaine Ann and conducts user research, workshops, and training programs primarily focused on the China market.
This document compares Shanghai and Hong Kong as locations for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in China. It lists several key industries that Shanghai aims to develop, including new energy, civil aviation manufacturing, advanced equipment, bio-pharmaceuticals, electronic information products, new energy automobiles, marine engineering equipment, new materials, and software/information services. It then notes Hong Kong's advantages for SMEs, such as its stable business environment, transparent rules, low taxes, good intellectual property protection, entrepreneurship culture, and flexibility. The document recommends Hong Kong over Shanghai for SMEs due to these favorable conditions.
What's Design Got to Do with the Financial Crisis? - Kaizor Elaine
The document discusses how design can help address issues that contributed to the 2008 world financial crisis. It argues that the financial system was poorly designed in ways that misaligned incentives and created conflicts of interest. Design approaches like human-centered design, holistic thinking, visualization, and simplification could help create financial systems that are more ethical, aligned around user needs, and comprehensible to all. The role of design may be expanding beyond products to also address how complex systems like the financial industry are structured and function at a macro level.
IBM embraces open and collaborative innovation to stay ahead of changing market needs. It defines innovation as the intersection of invention and insight that creates value. IBM has over 500,000 employees working in 190 countries and has acquired over 100 companies since 2003 to complement its portfolio. It leverages its global workforce and partners through open innovation models like jams and hackathons. Social software is heavily used within IBM to connect employees, share knowledge, and generate new ideas.
Trabaha is an online marketplace that allows homeowners to post home service requests and receive competitive bids from local service providers. Homeowners can view provider ratings/reviews, ask questions, and view portfolios. This streamlines the process of finding providers and saves homeowners both time and money compared to traditional methods. Trabaha aims to become a one-stop shop for homeowners' service needs through its online request and bidding platform. The company's target markets are homeowners aged 30-65 in Texas, North Carolina, Florida, Illinois, and Missouri.
This document provides an overview of Kaizor Innovation Limited, a strategic innovation consultancy based in Hong Kong and China. It discusses the company's user research activities in various Chinese cities and with clients in different industries. The document also outlines Kaizor Innovation's services such as user experience design, executive training, and design team training. It shares insights from research projects with design schools and examples of product design workshops. Finally, the document examines myths about starting businesses in China and factors to consider when choosing between Hong Kong and Shanghai.
Selling the Right Products to the China MarketElaine
This document discusses selling products in China and working with Chinese companies. It provides an overview of Kaizor Innovation, a strategic consultancy that helps clients understand the China market, develop products for Asia, and receive training in user-centered innovation. The document then covers understanding Chinese consumers, examples of Western brands in China, marketing approaches, cultural differences between Western and Chinese business models, and common surprises Westerners face working in China.
Kaizor Innovation is a strategic innovation consultancy focused on the China market. It helps clients innovate through corporate training, innovation strategy consulting, and China user research. The document outlines Kaizor's approach to innovation, which emphasizes understanding user needs, co-creation, and a human-centered design process. It provides examples of how Kaizor helped redesign services at the Hong Kong Post Office to be more user-friendly through workshops and research.
Kaizor Innovation is an international strategic innovation consultancy based in Hong Kong and China. It helps clients build R&D and design innovation capabilities in Asia, provides training on user-centered innovation, and helps understand market needs in China to identify new product opportunities. The company was founded in 2002 by Elaine Ann and conducts user research, workshops, and training programs primarily focused on the China market.
This document compares Shanghai and Hong Kong as locations for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in China. It lists several key industries that Shanghai aims to develop, including new energy, civil aviation manufacturing, advanced equipment, bio-pharmaceuticals, electronic information products, new energy automobiles, marine engineering equipment, new materials, and software/information services. It then notes Hong Kong's advantages for SMEs, such as its stable business environment, transparent rules, low taxes, good intellectual property protection, entrepreneurship culture, and flexibility. The document recommends Hong Kong over Shanghai for SMEs due to these favorable conditions.
What's Design Got to Do with the Financial Crisis? - Kaizor Elaine
The document discusses how design can help address issues that contributed to the 2008 world financial crisis. It argues that the financial system was poorly designed in ways that misaligned incentives and created conflicts of interest. Design approaches like human-centered design, holistic thinking, visualization, and simplification could help create financial systems that are more ethical, aligned around user needs, and comprehensible to all. The role of design may be expanding beyond products to also address how complex systems like the financial industry are structured and function at a macro level.
Developing the Right Products for the Chinese Mainland MarketElaine
The document is a presentation by Elaine Ann, President and CEO of Kaizor Innovation, given at the 2010 Hong Kong Houseware Fair. The presentation focuses on developing home products for the Chinese mainland market. It discusses conducting consumer research in major Chinese cities to understand user needs and behaviors. It also covers challenges in designing for different Chinese cultures and strategies that multi-national companies can use to successfully develop products for China. The presentation provides examples of how Kaizor Innovation has helped client companies expand in China through open innovation partnerships.
Keiretsu Forum is a global network of angel investors and accredited individuals. The document discusses Keiretsu Forum's process for evaluating investment opportunities, which involves a multi-stage review including an application, committee review, deal screening, forum meeting, and due diligence. It also provides tips for startup founders on crafting an effective presentation, such as clearly explaining assumptions, providing key information concisely, and considering investors who can help with more than just money.
Bekron Rocket Pitch - Turkey's Web Hosting CompanyDerya Nasirli
Our Company's name is BEKRON. It was founded by Derya Ibrahim Nasirli and Yusuf Besalel who have business and economics degrees and several years of work experience. BEKRON aims to provide affordable web hosting services to students, professors, entrepreneurs and mid-sized companies to help them create websites and online presences. BEKRON plans to target entrepreneurs and mid-sized companies specifically by offering hosting solutions to help them reach more customers and start online sales. The founders have created a business plan with cost projections that shows BEKRON can become profitable within its first month of operations and pay back startup costs within 1.2 months.
Combining Digital Media and Customer Interactions for “Connected CRM”SFIMA
The document discusses connecting digital media and customer interactions for effective customer relationship management (CRM). It describes Merkle Inc., a leader in CRM, and their belief that integrating brand and customer focus through domains like information, insights, optimization and targeting can create competitive advantage. The presentation explains how the digitization of media and channels creates an opportunity for CRM in targeting customers across these touchpoints to improve engagement and outcomes.
This document discusses intellectual assets (IAs) and intellectual property (IP) management. It defines tangibles and intangibles, with intangibles including knowledge, know-how, intellectual property, reputation, brands, and staff expertise. It provides examples of typical intangibles and discusses IP protection options like copyrights, designs rights, trademarks, and patents. The document also gives examples of how IAs and IP can be managed for new brands, technology R&D, entering new markets, and developing innovative ideas. Contact information is provided for getting help with IA and IP management.
The document discusses the future of work and how technology is changing the workplace. It addresses how tasks like customer acquisition, retention, and product creation are evolving from focusing on local and physical work to utilizing cloud-based technologies, social networks, and remote work. The future of work involves more flexible and virtual arrangements between employers and employees as work becomes less centralized and location-dependent.
Career Start-Ups: Leveraging Social Media ProfessionallyJustice Mitchell
As you go from one career stage of your life to another social media can do a great deal to support and direct your efforts. The following presentation was originally created for the University Of Central Florida's "COMM DAY" to help students transition into their chosen career field by establishing a 'personal brand' and use social media to research and contact potential employers.
Undaunted: How Credit Unions Can Thrive in the New Financial Services Environ...NAFCU Services Corporation
The credit union industry is being reshaped by numerous outside forces and challenges. How can we thrive? In order to answer that question, the 2011 Deluxe Collaborative focused their research on understanding what consumers think and feel about their financial institution, regulations, products and process. The researchers discovered that in order to survive- and thrive- organizations need to challenge five things. Learn those five things you should be thinking about and learn to thrive! More info at: www.nafcu.org/deluxe
Agencies: Stop Letting PPC Suck Your Margins DryTrada
This document summarizes a presentation about pay-per-click (PPC) advertising best practices. The presentation discusses how to effectively set up and manage PPC campaigns for e-commerce, lead generation, and branding objectives. It provides tips on front-loading time, mapping websites, writing ad copy, and switching focus from tactical to strategic work. The presentation also covers optimizing campaigns through keyword mining, consistent messaging, and integrating PPC with other marketing. It emphasizes the importance of clear goals, metrics reporting, and feedback for clients. Finally, it introduces Trada as a service that leverages experts to optimize PPC campaigns.
This is a pitch deck for showcasing the idea of Job Cafe for Indian market that helps creation of quality training and job center for temporary job seeker and who don't have time and money to invest in a startup or work from home.
My Best Deal is a procurement company founded in 1964 that uses a reverse auction process to help buyers obtain the best deals. It has over 3,500 employees and offers three membership levels - Basic, Business Plus, and Business Premium - ranging from £0 to £499 annually. Members receive benefits like account managers, procurement support, and access to the My Best Deal online shop and catalogues of over 20,000 products. Testimonials praise the company for saving clients money while providing excellent service and competitive pricing on a wide range of office supplies and commercial energy.
My Best Deal is a procurement company founded in 1964 that uses a reverse auction process to help buyers obtain the best deals on a wide range of products and services. It has over 3,500 employees and aims to take the hassle, time, and cost out of procurement. The reverse auction allows buyers to tell My Best Deal what they want, bids are requested from suppliers, and buyers choose the best bid. This process saves buyers money and time compared to traditional procurement methods. My Best Deal offers various membership levels starting from free for charities to premium packages with unlimited credits and consultancy support.
My Best Deal is a procurement company founded in 1964 that uses a reverse auction process to help buyers obtain the best deals. It has over 3,500 employees and offers three membership levels - Basic, Business Plus, and Business Premium - ranging from £0 to £499 annually. Members receive benefits like account managers, procurement support, and access to the My Best Deal online shop and catalogues of over 20,000 products. Testimonials praise the company for saving clients money while providing excellent service and the best deals.
My Best Deal is a procurement company founded in 1964 that uses a reverse auction process to help buyers obtain the best deals. It has over 3,500 employees and offers three membership levels - Basic, Business Plus, and Business Premium - ranging from £0 to £499 annually. Members receive benefits like account managers, procurement support, and access to an online catalog of over 20,000 products. The company aims to save buyers time and money by finding competitive bids from their supplier network. Testimonials praise My Best Deal's service and ability to source low-cost solutions.
The key benefit of Agile and Lean approaches is delivered customer value with less haste, with seamless workload and higher quality, all at the same time. This is what makes our customers and delivery teams happy, right? But how can we achieve this state? How to implement Agile/Lean over the whole value delivery chain? The only sustainable approach is to start with the mindset and cultural change linked to enterprise strategy, openly communicate and collaborate. This step is long term effort and is not easy. We will share our lessons (covering tools and our approach) about coaching delivery teams towards improving and independent teams.
Our presentation from Agilia 2013 conference in Brno.
This document provides an overview of how to write an effective business plan in 3 to 5 concise points or sections. It recommends including products/services, market analysis, industry overview, operations, and budgets. Market research tools are suggested to define the target customer and location. The presentation stresses that the plan should clarify thinking and identify benchmarks to evaluate business progress. Financial projections and supporting documents are also important for obtaining financing.
The document discusses innovations in finance. It notes that innovation can be continuous or disruptive and refers to using new ideas or methods, whereas invention refers to creating the ideas or methods. It explores why banks and financial institutions often fail to innovate, citing barriers like unproven business cases, regulatory hurdles, and fast followers. The document then highlights examples of financial innovations and disruptions, including new banking products, services, and technologies. It emphasizes that truly innovative requires commitment from top leadership.
China's tech ecosystem differs from the West in several key ways:
1) Government plays a larger role through censorship (Great Firewall) and support of national champions like BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) rather than FANG in the US.
2) Speed of adoption is much faster due to China's massive population and focus on mobile-first technologies like WeChat and QR codes.
3) AI and facial recognition are more widely adopted in China for services like payment and surveillance.
4) Chinese culture emphasizes hierarchy and collectivism over individualism, influencing the social aspects of technology use.
Kaizor Innovation is a strategic innovation consultancy that has conducted user research in China for over 16 years. They have insights from research in homes and offices across 1st, 2nd, and 3rd tier cities in China. The document discusses leveraging Hong Kong's strengths such as its stable business environment and rule of law to scale innovative companies into mainland China's massive market of over 1.3 billion people. It provides examples of how even small cities like Israel and Finland have produced globally successful tech companies, suggesting Hong Kong could do the same.
Developing the Right Products for the Chinese Mainland MarketElaine
The document is a presentation by Elaine Ann, President and CEO of Kaizor Innovation, given at the 2010 Hong Kong Houseware Fair. The presentation focuses on developing home products for the Chinese mainland market. It discusses conducting consumer research in major Chinese cities to understand user needs and behaviors. It also covers challenges in designing for different Chinese cultures and strategies that multi-national companies can use to successfully develop products for China. The presentation provides examples of how Kaizor Innovation has helped client companies expand in China through open innovation partnerships.
Keiretsu Forum is a global network of angel investors and accredited individuals. The document discusses Keiretsu Forum's process for evaluating investment opportunities, which involves a multi-stage review including an application, committee review, deal screening, forum meeting, and due diligence. It also provides tips for startup founders on crafting an effective presentation, such as clearly explaining assumptions, providing key information concisely, and considering investors who can help with more than just money.
Bekron Rocket Pitch - Turkey's Web Hosting CompanyDerya Nasirli
Our Company's name is BEKRON. It was founded by Derya Ibrahim Nasirli and Yusuf Besalel who have business and economics degrees and several years of work experience. BEKRON aims to provide affordable web hosting services to students, professors, entrepreneurs and mid-sized companies to help them create websites and online presences. BEKRON plans to target entrepreneurs and mid-sized companies specifically by offering hosting solutions to help them reach more customers and start online sales. The founders have created a business plan with cost projections that shows BEKRON can become profitable within its first month of operations and pay back startup costs within 1.2 months.
Combining Digital Media and Customer Interactions for “Connected CRM”SFIMA
The document discusses connecting digital media and customer interactions for effective customer relationship management (CRM). It describes Merkle Inc., a leader in CRM, and their belief that integrating brand and customer focus through domains like information, insights, optimization and targeting can create competitive advantage. The presentation explains how the digitization of media and channels creates an opportunity for CRM in targeting customers across these touchpoints to improve engagement and outcomes.
This document discusses intellectual assets (IAs) and intellectual property (IP) management. It defines tangibles and intangibles, with intangibles including knowledge, know-how, intellectual property, reputation, brands, and staff expertise. It provides examples of typical intangibles and discusses IP protection options like copyrights, designs rights, trademarks, and patents. The document also gives examples of how IAs and IP can be managed for new brands, technology R&D, entering new markets, and developing innovative ideas. Contact information is provided for getting help with IA and IP management.
The document discusses the future of work and how technology is changing the workplace. It addresses how tasks like customer acquisition, retention, and product creation are evolving from focusing on local and physical work to utilizing cloud-based technologies, social networks, and remote work. The future of work involves more flexible and virtual arrangements between employers and employees as work becomes less centralized and location-dependent.
Career Start-Ups: Leveraging Social Media ProfessionallyJustice Mitchell
As you go from one career stage of your life to another social media can do a great deal to support and direct your efforts. The following presentation was originally created for the University Of Central Florida's "COMM DAY" to help students transition into their chosen career field by establishing a 'personal brand' and use social media to research and contact potential employers.
Undaunted: How Credit Unions Can Thrive in the New Financial Services Environ...NAFCU Services Corporation
The credit union industry is being reshaped by numerous outside forces and challenges. How can we thrive? In order to answer that question, the 2011 Deluxe Collaborative focused their research on understanding what consumers think and feel about their financial institution, regulations, products and process. The researchers discovered that in order to survive- and thrive- organizations need to challenge five things. Learn those five things you should be thinking about and learn to thrive! More info at: www.nafcu.org/deluxe
Agencies: Stop Letting PPC Suck Your Margins DryTrada
This document summarizes a presentation about pay-per-click (PPC) advertising best practices. The presentation discusses how to effectively set up and manage PPC campaigns for e-commerce, lead generation, and branding objectives. It provides tips on front-loading time, mapping websites, writing ad copy, and switching focus from tactical to strategic work. The presentation also covers optimizing campaigns through keyword mining, consistent messaging, and integrating PPC with other marketing. It emphasizes the importance of clear goals, metrics reporting, and feedback for clients. Finally, it introduces Trada as a service that leverages experts to optimize PPC campaigns.
This is a pitch deck for showcasing the idea of Job Cafe for Indian market that helps creation of quality training and job center for temporary job seeker and who don't have time and money to invest in a startup or work from home.
My Best Deal is a procurement company founded in 1964 that uses a reverse auction process to help buyers obtain the best deals. It has over 3,500 employees and offers three membership levels - Basic, Business Plus, and Business Premium - ranging from £0 to £499 annually. Members receive benefits like account managers, procurement support, and access to the My Best Deal online shop and catalogues of over 20,000 products. Testimonials praise the company for saving clients money while providing excellent service and competitive pricing on a wide range of office supplies and commercial energy.
My Best Deal is a procurement company founded in 1964 that uses a reverse auction process to help buyers obtain the best deals on a wide range of products and services. It has over 3,500 employees and aims to take the hassle, time, and cost out of procurement. The reverse auction allows buyers to tell My Best Deal what they want, bids are requested from suppliers, and buyers choose the best bid. This process saves buyers money and time compared to traditional procurement methods. My Best Deal offers various membership levels starting from free for charities to premium packages with unlimited credits and consultancy support.
My Best Deal is a procurement company founded in 1964 that uses a reverse auction process to help buyers obtain the best deals. It has over 3,500 employees and offers three membership levels - Basic, Business Plus, and Business Premium - ranging from £0 to £499 annually. Members receive benefits like account managers, procurement support, and access to the My Best Deal online shop and catalogues of over 20,000 products. Testimonials praise the company for saving clients money while providing excellent service and the best deals.
My Best Deal is a procurement company founded in 1964 that uses a reverse auction process to help buyers obtain the best deals. It has over 3,500 employees and offers three membership levels - Basic, Business Plus, and Business Premium - ranging from £0 to £499 annually. Members receive benefits like account managers, procurement support, and access to an online catalog of over 20,000 products. The company aims to save buyers time and money by finding competitive bids from their supplier network. Testimonials praise My Best Deal's service and ability to source low-cost solutions.
The key benefit of Agile and Lean approaches is delivered customer value with less haste, with seamless workload and higher quality, all at the same time. This is what makes our customers and delivery teams happy, right? But how can we achieve this state? How to implement Agile/Lean over the whole value delivery chain? The only sustainable approach is to start with the mindset and cultural change linked to enterprise strategy, openly communicate and collaborate. This step is long term effort and is not easy. We will share our lessons (covering tools and our approach) about coaching delivery teams towards improving and independent teams.
Our presentation from Agilia 2013 conference in Brno.
This document provides an overview of how to write an effective business plan in 3 to 5 concise points or sections. It recommends including products/services, market analysis, industry overview, operations, and budgets. Market research tools are suggested to define the target customer and location. The presentation stresses that the plan should clarify thinking and identify benchmarks to evaluate business progress. Financial projections and supporting documents are also important for obtaining financing.
The document discusses innovations in finance. It notes that innovation can be continuous or disruptive and refers to using new ideas or methods, whereas invention refers to creating the ideas or methods. It explores why banks and financial institutions often fail to innovate, citing barriers like unproven business cases, regulatory hurdles, and fast followers. The document then highlights examples of financial innovations and disruptions, including new banking products, services, and technologies. It emphasizes that truly innovative requires commitment from top leadership.
China's tech ecosystem differs from the West in several key ways:
1) Government plays a larger role through censorship (Great Firewall) and support of national champions like BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) rather than FANG in the US.
2) Speed of adoption is much faster due to China's massive population and focus on mobile-first technologies like WeChat and QR codes.
3) AI and facial recognition are more widely adopted in China for services like payment and surveillance.
4) Chinese culture emphasizes hierarchy and collectivism over individualism, influencing the social aspects of technology use.
Kaizor Innovation is a strategic innovation consultancy that has conducted user research in China for over 16 years. They have insights from research in homes and offices across 1st, 2nd, and 3rd tier cities in China. The document discusses leveraging Hong Kong's strengths such as its stable business environment and rule of law to scale innovative companies into mainland China's massive market of over 1.3 billion people. It provides examples of how even small cities like Israel and Finland have produced globally successful tech companies, suggesting Hong Kong could do the same.
This document discusses how Hong Kong companies can innovate and provides information about Kaizor Innovation, a strategic innovation consultancy. The document summarizes Kaizor Innovation's experience conducting user research in China, their clients in various industries, and their executive training programs that teach design thinking and innovation methodologies. It also provides case studies of projects Kaizor Innovation has worked on to help companies like Charles Schwab and Hang Seng Bank improve their digital offerings through user-centered design.
BMW has conducted extensive research into the emotional experiences and pleasures associated with driving. Interviews with drivers revealed complex feelings such as exhilaration, security, and enjoyment of the car's personal space. Drivers feel their mood is often set by how they feel when getting into their car in the morning. BMW aims to design cars that provide an overall positive experience from the first sight of the vehicle to interacting with its features.
This document summarizes a user research and design pilot project conducted by Kaizor Innovation for Hongkong Post between August and November 2009. The project involved conducting user interviews and observations at Mongkok and Tsim Sha Tsui post offices to understand customer and staff needs, then holding workshops to develop design strategies and concepts aimed at improving the user experience and operational efficiency of post offices. The project concluded with a final presentation to Hongkong Post and Efficiency Unit stakeholders of recommendations and design concepts.
This document summarizes a project that applied user-centered design principles to redesign Hong Kong's public employment and training services. A team of graduate students observed three government job centers and conducted research on job seekers' needs. They then developed innovative service concepts and scenarios to improve the job searching experience. The collaboration between government, universities, and design organizations demonstrated how user-centered design can inspire new approaches to public services. The goal is to enhance efficiency, competitiveness, and position Hong Kong as an innovative design hub in Asia.