This document discusses challenges facing Generation Y entrepreneurs in Africa. It notes that while Generation Y is often perceived as bold, innovative, and entrepreneurial, entrepreneurship is actually relatively uncommon among young people. Few young people own stock in private companies or are business owners themselves. The document outlines three pillars of entrepreneurship - being bold, planning carefully, and taking calculated risks. However, Generation Y entrepreneurs may struggle with overconfidence, impatience, miscalculated risks, and risk aversion. The document emphasizes that success is about thinking, learning from failures, exploration, and perseverance rather than never failing, brilliant strategies, or large social media followings. It promotes staying dedicated to outcomes through challenges.
If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.
The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.
Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself…
Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.
This document provides a collection of articles summarizing key topics related to business, work, and the economy in China. It discusses China's transition to domestic consumption and opportunities for Australian businesses through the China Australia Free Trade Agreement. Several articles describe China's leading role in e-commerce, innovation, and protecting intellectual property. Other topics include the influence of WeChat on social media, competition between Alibaba and JD.com, and Chinese entrepreneurs starting tech startups. The document also mentions opportunities for the airport industry and lessons that businesses can learn from expanding into Asia.
A startup is a new business that is focused on developing an innovative product or technology with the goal of finding a scalable business model. While startups are often small businesses in the early stages, not all small businesses are startups. Startups aim to rapidly test ideas through building, measuring customer response, and using data to learn and improve. Examples of successful global startups include companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook that began as small ventures pursuing new technologies and business models. In Morocco, emerging startups are also exploring opportunities in various industries through developing innovative products and services.
Next Generation Retail | ThoughtWorks Executive LunchThoughtworks
For retailers, the true test of endurance is just now beginning. Traditional strategies for building loyalty and driving sales are becoming obsolete. Time is of the essence. In a race to get customers' attention, retailers need to deliver new ideas to customers within weeks, not years.
In this presentation Robin Copland from ThoughtWorks Americas discusses the imperative for organisational change, Next Generation Retail Architecture and techniques for driving innovation faster. The shares insights from working with global retailers including Gap Inc. and Natural Markets Food Group who have been changing the game in retail.
Bold and brave questions leaders should be asking themselves, and their teams...Samuel Williams
Slides from Webinar that can be viewed here: https://app.livestorm.co/people2people-2/bold-brave-questions-to-ask-yourself-and-your-teams-to-co-create-more-resilient-digital-businesses
Coming to terms with the new normal of operating in a socially distanced world, what are the questions to be asking to help not only recover but also make your business more resilient to lockdowns and moving from one level to another.
This session is for professionals whose business is under stress and for professionals challenged to reinvent their careers in response to the COVID19 pandemic.
#adaptiveleadershipsessions #newnormalforbusiness #b2brevenuegeneration
Key takeaways
We’ll examine some of the key pathways to understanding what the new normal will be for your business, as the world moves out of lockdown.
Look at some real world examples of how digital innovation is developing new and more resilient forms of revenue, at a social distance.
Explore some of the tools available to help develop your own personal digital change strategy, so you are more professionally resilient to change.
Do You Have What It Takes to Start Up Your Own Business?Lai Castillo
The document discusses starting a business and provides statistics about startup success. It notes that the total value of companies funded by YCombinator is over $26 billion and founders typically earn $50,000 initially. It advises determining if one is willing to take risks, handle the workload, make decisions, and is passionate about the business before starting. Dedication, hard work, and having the right mindset are keys to business success.
Experience sharing from Jim James who has been an entrepreneur in Asia since 1995 operating a number of companies; some successfully, and others not. Some links to other useful references included.
This document discusses challenges facing Generation Y entrepreneurs in Africa. It notes that while Generation Y is often perceived as bold, innovative, and entrepreneurial, entrepreneurship is actually relatively uncommon among young people. Few young people own stock in private companies or are business owners themselves. The document outlines three pillars of entrepreneurship - being bold, planning carefully, and taking calculated risks. However, Generation Y entrepreneurs may struggle with overconfidence, impatience, miscalculated risks, and risk aversion. The document emphasizes that success is about thinking, learning from failures, exploration, and perseverance rather than never failing, brilliant strategies, or large social media followings. It promotes staying dedicated to outcomes through challenges.
If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.
The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.
Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself…
Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.
This document provides a collection of articles summarizing key topics related to business, work, and the economy in China. It discusses China's transition to domestic consumption and opportunities for Australian businesses through the China Australia Free Trade Agreement. Several articles describe China's leading role in e-commerce, innovation, and protecting intellectual property. Other topics include the influence of WeChat on social media, competition between Alibaba and JD.com, and Chinese entrepreneurs starting tech startups. The document also mentions opportunities for the airport industry and lessons that businesses can learn from expanding into Asia.
A startup is a new business that is focused on developing an innovative product or technology with the goal of finding a scalable business model. While startups are often small businesses in the early stages, not all small businesses are startups. Startups aim to rapidly test ideas through building, measuring customer response, and using data to learn and improve. Examples of successful global startups include companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook that began as small ventures pursuing new technologies and business models. In Morocco, emerging startups are also exploring opportunities in various industries through developing innovative products and services.
Next Generation Retail | ThoughtWorks Executive LunchThoughtworks
For retailers, the true test of endurance is just now beginning. Traditional strategies for building loyalty and driving sales are becoming obsolete. Time is of the essence. In a race to get customers' attention, retailers need to deliver new ideas to customers within weeks, not years.
In this presentation Robin Copland from ThoughtWorks Americas discusses the imperative for organisational change, Next Generation Retail Architecture and techniques for driving innovation faster. The shares insights from working with global retailers including Gap Inc. and Natural Markets Food Group who have been changing the game in retail.
Bold and brave questions leaders should be asking themselves, and their teams...Samuel Williams
Slides from Webinar that can be viewed here: https://app.livestorm.co/people2people-2/bold-brave-questions-to-ask-yourself-and-your-teams-to-co-create-more-resilient-digital-businesses
Coming to terms with the new normal of operating in a socially distanced world, what are the questions to be asking to help not only recover but also make your business more resilient to lockdowns and moving from one level to another.
This session is for professionals whose business is under stress and for professionals challenged to reinvent their careers in response to the COVID19 pandemic.
#adaptiveleadershipsessions #newnormalforbusiness #b2brevenuegeneration
Key takeaways
We’ll examine some of the key pathways to understanding what the new normal will be for your business, as the world moves out of lockdown.
Look at some real world examples of how digital innovation is developing new and more resilient forms of revenue, at a social distance.
Explore some of the tools available to help develop your own personal digital change strategy, so you are more professionally resilient to change.
Do You Have What It Takes to Start Up Your Own Business?Lai Castillo
The document discusses starting a business and provides statistics about startup success. It notes that the total value of companies funded by YCombinator is over $26 billion and founders typically earn $50,000 initially. It advises determining if one is willing to take risks, handle the workload, make decisions, and is passionate about the business before starting. Dedication, hard work, and having the right mindset are keys to business success.
Experience sharing from Jim James who has been an entrepreneur in Asia since 1995 operating a number of companies; some successfully, and others not. Some links to other useful references included.
The document provides an overview of entrepreneurship and starting a startup. It discusses both the fantasy and reality of entrepreneurship, noting that most startups fail due to a lack of customers rather than a lack of product. It emphasizes treating the startup as an experiment and following an approach focused on customer discovery, validation, and creation to build a business with a viable product-market fit and avoid common pitfalls that cause many startups to fail.
Startups Ocean - it's a perfect solution to startups success.
Do you wanna find out why?
View our presentation or you can text directly to Elena Tkachuk, CMO of Startups Ocean
Digital transformation in the travel industry #VVRHans Smellinckx
This document discusses the challenges of digital transformation for businesses. It emphasizes that transformation requires focusing on people, processes, platforms and technology. A successful transformation plan should be broken into understandable pieces launched over 6 month periods. It also stresses the importance of proving new approaches can generate revenue, creating a team to propose projects, learning from mistakes, and making transformation an ongoing effort.
The document summarizes Guy Kawasaki's book "The Art of Starting" which provides advice on various aspects of starting a business such as positioning a product, pitching to investors, writing business plans, raising capital, bootstrapping, recruiting, partnering, branding, rainmaking, and being ethical. It includes diagrams and lists on topics like the components of an effective pitch and building a forecast. The book recommends focusing on real aspects of the business rather than superficial elements and putting one's whole heart into starting small. It also emphasizes the importance of helping others and paying back to society. Positive reviews from entrepreneurs like Pierre Omidyar, Michael Moritz, and Geoffrey Moore praise the book for providing useful guidance for founding and
Matt Austin - Senior Director, Retail Strategy & Innovation, SamsungWorld_Forum_Disrupt
The document discusses three types of innovation: internal innovation focused on improving existing products and services, external innovation focused on entering new markets, and "Oh Sh*t!" innovation focused on responding to unexpected disruptions or crises. It notes that innovation does not always succeed on the first try and advocates thinking big but starting small. The document also warns of prioritizing glory over innovation and quotes acknowledging the risks of unknown unknowns as well as the constant tension between peace and chaos in business.
This document discusses alternatives to traditional business plans. It notes that business plans have changed little over 40 years, are rarely read and do not guarantee success. Several experts are cited who argue plans should be more flexible, focus on customers and the pitch, and be a one page overview rather than lengthy details. Research found no difference in success between businesses with and without formal plans. The document promotes testing ideas first before writing plans and being nimble rather than sticking to flawed concepts spent months drafting.
Vishal Gondal is an Indian entrepreneur and angel investor who founded India Games and served as Managing Director of DisneyUTV Digital. He is considered a leader in the Indian digital gaming industry and has received recognition as one of the most powerful people in Indian digital business despite lacking a formal education in computers.
The document outlines 10 commandments for entrepreneurs according to Gondal, including focusing on real problems to solve rather than copying Western solutions, aiming to be among the top two players in your sector, focusing efforts on the 20% of activities that deliver 80% of impact, and motivating teams with passion when skills and resources are limited.
The document provides an overview of technopreneurship, which is defined as technology plus entrepreneurship plus leadership. It discusses the key components of each - technology includes engineering and industry; entrepreneurship includes purpose, opportunity, and innovation; and leadership includes relationship, stewardship, and partnership. It also outlines principles for technopreneurship including maintaining a positive attitude, developing skills in technical areas, management, and leadership, and focusing on quality, cost, and delivery. Overall, the document presents technopreneurship as a way to be a solution provider and create sustainable development through applying knowledge and imagination.
Thomas Vajay led a workshop on intrapreneurship with budget constraints and resistance. [The workshop aimed to generate ideas for innovation projects within constraints.] Participants broke into groups to brainstorm reasons innovation programs fail and excuses for not implementing intrapreneurship. [Groups presented ideas for overcoming barriers through low-cost pilots and reallocating existing resources.] The workshop continued with ideation sessions to generate concrete solutions [using techniques like brainwriting to transfer problems to actions within the constraints].
This presentation should give you a good overview of the different steps to grow your company. It includes a growth process from analysis, to north star metric, backlog and prioritization to a growth plan. Get structured, grow your business.
The Business Model of Consulting is Dead. Hourly rates are in conflict with customer solutions. How can you create a model that adds value to nowadays customer needs? Here are the slides of a keynote I gave in Ukraine, Kiev.
Final cycles overview jan 2019 with toolkitBryan Cassady
Scaling up is hard and deadly if done wrong. We would like to help you get it right.
This presentation introduces the ABCs method of innovation and provides toolkits you could use to grow fast while reducing riks
Details
A study by Startup Genome analyzed the results of 3,200 start-ups, they found that of the majority of start-ups failed. That shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. What is more important is they found, 70% failed because of premature or faulty scaling.
In this workshop, you learn about the ABCs method. The ABCs method is a system-based approach to growing your business. It has been proven to build ideas up to 6x faster while reducing risks 30-80%.
Otto Freijser - Perpetulon - Lean Startup Night Warsaw - Feb 13th, 2018 Bartek Janowicz
Otto Freijser discusses scaling lean startup principles in large enterprises. He outlines how traditional product development differs from lean startup by emphasizing building without validating assumptions first. Freijser advocates adopting lean startup practices like customer discovery, minimum viable products, and continuous iteration to increase success rates for new products. Large companies can apply these principles through innovation teams, flexible structures, and empowering teams to launch smaller experiments.
The document discusses the entrepreneurial mindset and what makes an entrepreneur. It defines entrepreneurship as taking risks and having creative ideas to start a business. It profiles several famous entrepreneurs like Walt Disney, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs. While business plans are important, some very successful companies were started without formal plans by entrepreneurs who just took action. The document also discusses risks of entrepreneurship like financial and career risks and how to balance work and personal life. It emphasizes qualities of entrepreneurs like seeing opportunities, working hard, and having an optimistic attitude when facing challenges.
The document discusses principles and tactics for businesses to maintain longevity and avoid disruption. It argues that companies must continuously innovate their business models, organize for agility and wisdom, and design meaningful customer experiences to stay relevant. Specifically, it recommends that companies: 1) create value through sustaining and disruptive innovation on an open platform; 2) organize cross-functional teams to gain wisdom from failing fast through experiments; and 3) curate distinctive brand experiences and invest in insightful conversations to understand customer needs on a personal level. The goal is to prevent unintended consequences and maintain a "fountain of eternal youth" against new competitors.
The document discusses innovation challenges and provides thoughts on how to innovate. It suggests focusing on creating superior value for customers in the new "what can I do for you" economy where consumers are taking control. Companies should work on the edges, bring customers into strategic decisions, deepen core competencies while leveraging outside resources, and find ideas that unite stakeholders to continuously improve through practice.
Clients look for the future in the strangest of places. However, our tried and tested approach can save you money and face. Learn why consumers will tell you garbage and why trends are just a start. Get to the future first - with Futures Coaching.
Demetris C. Hadjisofocli. Presentation of information on how any individual can explore the opportunity to set up and manage their own business and how they can turn an idea into a business opportunity in the area of social enterprise or regular business. This presentation was given to a group of individuals with various types of disabilities and the purpose was to inform them, encourage them, and facilitate their introduction into the business world. A definition of systemic entrepreneurship, a termed and a process that I developed and coined and use the last 2 years, was given out.
Innovation Women Speak! Webinar: Creativity and Business: Why It MattersInnovation Women
Creativity is regarded as one of the top three personality traits most important in career success, but are C-Suite executives fusing creativity into business within their internal environments? This webinar will offer tips and techniques to assist leaders in balancing ones’ creativity in business, cultivate meaningful projects and build a supportive team while showcasing creativity as an important leadership role.
Large companies can learn from startups by adopting an experimental approach to innovation that involves testing assumptions through customer interactions rather than relying only on internal planning. While large companies have advantages in resources and experience, their culture is typically focused on executing existing business models rather than exploring new opportunities through rapid experimentation. Effective innovation within large firms requires dedicated teams or partnerships that apply startup methodologies but are also integrated with the larger organization to enable scaling of successful concepts. Managing the tensions between established operations and experimental initiatives requires anticipating conflicts and developing diverse organizational models.
What large companies can learn from the working culture and methodos of startups
The linear career path is long gone. Organizations need managers and executives with a high degree of diversity and curiousity to navigate through uncertainty. People who were exposed to a startup or involved in intrapreneurship experience
The document provides an overview of entrepreneurship and starting a startup. It discusses both the fantasy and reality of entrepreneurship, noting that most startups fail due to a lack of customers rather than a lack of product. It emphasizes treating the startup as an experiment and following an approach focused on customer discovery, validation, and creation to build a business with a viable product-market fit and avoid common pitfalls that cause many startups to fail.
Startups Ocean - it's a perfect solution to startups success.
Do you wanna find out why?
View our presentation or you can text directly to Elena Tkachuk, CMO of Startups Ocean
Digital transformation in the travel industry #VVRHans Smellinckx
This document discusses the challenges of digital transformation for businesses. It emphasizes that transformation requires focusing on people, processes, platforms and technology. A successful transformation plan should be broken into understandable pieces launched over 6 month periods. It also stresses the importance of proving new approaches can generate revenue, creating a team to propose projects, learning from mistakes, and making transformation an ongoing effort.
The document summarizes Guy Kawasaki's book "The Art of Starting" which provides advice on various aspects of starting a business such as positioning a product, pitching to investors, writing business plans, raising capital, bootstrapping, recruiting, partnering, branding, rainmaking, and being ethical. It includes diagrams and lists on topics like the components of an effective pitch and building a forecast. The book recommends focusing on real aspects of the business rather than superficial elements and putting one's whole heart into starting small. It also emphasizes the importance of helping others and paying back to society. Positive reviews from entrepreneurs like Pierre Omidyar, Michael Moritz, and Geoffrey Moore praise the book for providing useful guidance for founding and
Matt Austin - Senior Director, Retail Strategy & Innovation, SamsungWorld_Forum_Disrupt
The document discusses three types of innovation: internal innovation focused on improving existing products and services, external innovation focused on entering new markets, and "Oh Sh*t!" innovation focused on responding to unexpected disruptions or crises. It notes that innovation does not always succeed on the first try and advocates thinking big but starting small. The document also warns of prioritizing glory over innovation and quotes acknowledging the risks of unknown unknowns as well as the constant tension between peace and chaos in business.
This document discusses alternatives to traditional business plans. It notes that business plans have changed little over 40 years, are rarely read and do not guarantee success. Several experts are cited who argue plans should be more flexible, focus on customers and the pitch, and be a one page overview rather than lengthy details. Research found no difference in success between businesses with and without formal plans. The document promotes testing ideas first before writing plans and being nimble rather than sticking to flawed concepts spent months drafting.
Vishal Gondal is an Indian entrepreneur and angel investor who founded India Games and served as Managing Director of DisneyUTV Digital. He is considered a leader in the Indian digital gaming industry and has received recognition as one of the most powerful people in Indian digital business despite lacking a formal education in computers.
The document outlines 10 commandments for entrepreneurs according to Gondal, including focusing on real problems to solve rather than copying Western solutions, aiming to be among the top two players in your sector, focusing efforts on the 20% of activities that deliver 80% of impact, and motivating teams with passion when skills and resources are limited.
The document provides an overview of technopreneurship, which is defined as technology plus entrepreneurship plus leadership. It discusses the key components of each - technology includes engineering and industry; entrepreneurship includes purpose, opportunity, and innovation; and leadership includes relationship, stewardship, and partnership. It also outlines principles for technopreneurship including maintaining a positive attitude, developing skills in technical areas, management, and leadership, and focusing on quality, cost, and delivery. Overall, the document presents technopreneurship as a way to be a solution provider and create sustainable development through applying knowledge and imagination.
Thomas Vajay led a workshop on intrapreneurship with budget constraints and resistance. [The workshop aimed to generate ideas for innovation projects within constraints.] Participants broke into groups to brainstorm reasons innovation programs fail and excuses for not implementing intrapreneurship. [Groups presented ideas for overcoming barriers through low-cost pilots and reallocating existing resources.] The workshop continued with ideation sessions to generate concrete solutions [using techniques like brainwriting to transfer problems to actions within the constraints].
This presentation should give you a good overview of the different steps to grow your company. It includes a growth process from analysis, to north star metric, backlog and prioritization to a growth plan. Get structured, grow your business.
The Business Model of Consulting is Dead. Hourly rates are in conflict with customer solutions. How can you create a model that adds value to nowadays customer needs? Here are the slides of a keynote I gave in Ukraine, Kiev.
Final cycles overview jan 2019 with toolkitBryan Cassady
Scaling up is hard and deadly if done wrong. We would like to help you get it right.
This presentation introduces the ABCs method of innovation and provides toolkits you could use to grow fast while reducing riks
Details
A study by Startup Genome analyzed the results of 3,200 start-ups, they found that of the majority of start-ups failed. That shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. What is more important is they found, 70% failed because of premature or faulty scaling.
In this workshop, you learn about the ABCs method. The ABCs method is a system-based approach to growing your business. It has been proven to build ideas up to 6x faster while reducing risks 30-80%.
Otto Freijser - Perpetulon - Lean Startup Night Warsaw - Feb 13th, 2018 Bartek Janowicz
Otto Freijser discusses scaling lean startup principles in large enterprises. He outlines how traditional product development differs from lean startup by emphasizing building without validating assumptions first. Freijser advocates adopting lean startup practices like customer discovery, minimum viable products, and continuous iteration to increase success rates for new products. Large companies can apply these principles through innovation teams, flexible structures, and empowering teams to launch smaller experiments.
The document discusses the entrepreneurial mindset and what makes an entrepreneur. It defines entrepreneurship as taking risks and having creative ideas to start a business. It profiles several famous entrepreneurs like Walt Disney, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs. While business plans are important, some very successful companies were started without formal plans by entrepreneurs who just took action. The document also discusses risks of entrepreneurship like financial and career risks and how to balance work and personal life. It emphasizes qualities of entrepreneurs like seeing opportunities, working hard, and having an optimistic attitude when facing challenges.
The document discusses principles and tactics for businesses to maintain longevity and avoid disruption. It argues that companies must continuously innovate their business models, organize for agility and wisdom, and design meaningful customer experiences to stay relevant. Specifically, it recommends that companies: 1) create value through sustaining and disruptive innovation on an open platform; 2) organize cross-functional teams to gain wisdom from failing fast through experiments; and 3) curate distinctive brand experiences and invest in insightful conversations to understand customer needs on a personal level. The goal is to prevent unintended consequences and maintain a "fountain of eternal youth" against new competitors.
The document discusses innovation challenges and provides thoughts on how to innovate. It suggests focusing on creating superior value for customers in the new "what can I do for you" economy where consumers are taking control. Companies should work on the edges, bring customers into strategic decisions, deepen core competencies while leveraging outside resources, and find ideas that unite stakeholders to continuously improve through practice.
Clients look for the future in the strangest of places. However, our tried and tested approach can save you money and face. Learn why consumers will tell you garbage and why trends are just a start. Get to the future first - with Futures Coaching.
Demetris C. Hadjisofocli. Presentation of information on how any individual can explore the opportunity to set up and manage their own business and how they can turn an idea into a business opportunity in the area of social enterprise or regular business. This presentation was given to a group of individuals with various types of disabilities and the purpose was to inform them, encourage them, and facilitate their introduction into the business world. A definition of systemic entrepreneurship, a termed and a process that I developed and coined and use the last 2 years, was given out.
Innovation Women Speak! Webinar: Creativity and Business: Why It MattersInnovation Women
Creativity is regarded as one of the top three personality traits most important in career success, but are C-Suite executives fusing creativity into business within their internal environments? This webinar will offer tips and techniques to assist leaders in balancing ones’ creativity in business, cultivate meaningful projects and build a supportive team while showcasing creativity as an important leadership role.
Large companies can learn from startups by adopting an experimental approach to innovation that involves testing assumptions through customer interactions rather than relying only on internal planning. While large companies have advantages in resources and experience, their culture is typically focused on executing existing business models rather than exploring new opportunities through rapid experimentation. Effective innovation within large firms requires dedicated teams or partnerships that apply startup methodologies but are also integrated with the larger organization to enable scaling of successful concepts. Managing the tensions between established operations and experimental initiatives requires anticipating conflicts and developing diverse organizational models.
What large companies can learn from the working culture and methodos of startups
The linear career path is long gone. Organizations need managers and executives with a high degree of diversity and curiousity to navigate through uncertainty. People who were exposed to a startup or involved in intrapreneurship experience
Business Models for Prevention: "An ounce of prevention..."Paul Hudnut
This document discusses business models focused on prevention to address global health challenges. It provides examples of prevention-based business models like Inviragen, which develops vaccines, and Envirofit, which produces low-cost cookstoves. The document encourages designing business models using tools like the Business Model Canvas to prototype ideas and get customer feedback through testing. The overall message is that business model innovation can help tackle issues like disease and pollution through ventures focused on prevention rather than cure.
Why do companies lose their best talents?CelexProject
I often say that no company is bigger or better than the people who work there, employees give it a damned hard every day. So why do companies lose their best talent all the time?
Presentation of Guy Kawasaki\'s "The Art of The Start" to LA2M, plus thought on current entrepreneurial opportunities in marketing. 3 Feb 2010
The document discusses the challenges of effectively targeting display ads. It notes that building enough creative content is the biggest challenge as marketers need to build hundreds or thousands of ads quickly and cheaply. However, this is costly, time-consuming, and impossible to do manually. The document provides an example of a marketer wanting to run a campaign for a fitness device, but needing over 7,000 unique ads to target different segments. It emphasizes that marketing automation for display, rich media, and mobile ads is a necessity rather than a nice-to-have feature due to the immense volume of content required.
The document outlines an approach called the "Growth Operating System" (OS) for helping large enterprises grow like startups through a focus on discovery, experimentation, and learning. It advocates installing a "Growth Board" decision-making structure to manage a portfolio of growth opportunities from seed to launch to scale. The goal is to create a "Positioned Capital Portfolio" of new businesses estimated to generate billions in revenue by focusing on opportunities outside the existing addressable market and validating ideas through fast, low-cost experiments.
Lecture Entrepreneurship -The Art of the Start - How to start a Venture Capit...Michael Altendorf
The document discusses starting a venture capital (VC) backed company and provides advice from Michael Altendorf on this process. It introduces ADTELLIGENCE, a German tech company founded by Altendorf and others with a team of experts from companies like SAP, Google, and IBM. Their technology creates the basis for successful business models in areas like web 2.0 and mobile platforms. The document then provides tips on developing the idea, building a team, creating a business plan, finding investors, developing the product and market strategy, and other key steps to starting a VC backed company.
Legal and Contractual Framework, and Obligations of WEAR Sustain FundingWEAR Sustain
The document outlines the timeline and process for the WEARsustain open call for funding wearable and e-textile projects that address ethics and sustainability. It discusses:
1) An open call for funding up to €50k per interdisciplinary project working with technologists to address product lifecycle issues.
2) The application timeline from November 2017 to January 2018, selection process involving reviewers, and notification of winners by February 2018 to begin 6 month prototypes by March 2018.
3) Funding will be provided in installments of €25k initially, €15k after midterm review, and €10k after final review, along with €15k in innovation vouchers.
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Oscar Tomico, Eindhoven University of TechnologyWEAR Sustain
The document discusses soft wearables and sustainable design. It addresses moving from product-focused to service-focused wearables and exploring interactions between garments and the body. The document outlines workshops held in various locations to design soft, interactive textiles through hands-on experimentation with materials like heat and vibration. It reflects on balancing craft and technology, functionality and aesthetics, and moving beyond binary design frameworks through an intentional, transformative process.
This document outlines talking points for a discussion on wearable technology and sustainability. It discusses (1) using wearable tech to address body image issues and enable customization, which can increase garment value and lifespan; (2) the importance of traditional tailoring techniques for constructing wearable tech that is embedded, removable, and washable; and (3) designing non-technical aspects of wearable tech and addressing waste from textiles, electronics, and wearable tech over the lifespan of a garment.
Rethinking the Body - Alicia de Manuel WEAR Sustain
Alicia de Manuel is a PhD student studying the transformation of the body through data from wearable devices. She explores how self-tracking technologies allow people to quantify aspects of their daily life to gain self-knowledge. Her work examines how these devices can augment the body and extend it into a network connected to other bodies and objects. Through speculative design, she questions what role the augmented body may play in society and how technology can be used to explore one's own body.
Alain Heureux, Brussels Creative - Ecosytem as a ServiceWEAR Sustain
Presentation made at WEAR Sustain Open Call Support Event supported by Brussels Creative, Creative Ring, MAD and DataScouts on May 17th 2017 in Brussels, Belgium
WEAR Sustain presentation by Creative RingWEAR Sustain
The WEAR Sustain project is a €3M, two-year European Union initiative to promote more sustainable development of wearable technologies. It aims to bring together wearable technology stakeholders from across Europe to address ethical and sustainability issues. The project is managed by a consortium of 7 organizations and will connect stakeholders through networking events, open innovation calls, and a network of advocacy hubs. Selected innovation projects will receive up to €50k in funding to develop sustainable wearable technology prototypes through mentorship and hub support.
Presentation made at WEAR Sustain Open Call Support Event supported by Brussels Creative, Creative Ring, MAD and DataScouts on May 17th 2017 in Brussels, Belgium
The document discusses smart fabrics, which are fabrics embedded with digital technologies or nanomaterials to enhance their functionality. It provides examples of smart fabrics using optical fibers, nano-particles, chromic materials, and shape memory materials. Key applications discussed include uses in sports, military, healthcare, and fashion. Innovation leaders are profiled who are developing smart yoga pants, jackets, dresses, and baby socks. The presentation concludes by discussing the future potential of smart fabrics to be more adaptive, connected to IoT, and developed with sustainability and safety in mind.
Adrian Hill, Osmos Cities of Making Part 2WEAR Sustain
Presentation made at WEAR Sustain Open Call Support Event supported by Brussels Creative, Creative Ring, MAD and DataScouts on May 17th 2017 in Brussels, Belgium
Adrian Hill, Osmos, Cities of making Part 1WEAR Sustain
Presentation made at WEAR Sustain Open Call Support Event supported by Brussels Creative, Creative Ring, MAD and DataScouts on May 17th 2017 in Brussels, Belgium
Anne Prahl PhD, WEAR Sustain PresentationWEAR Sustain
Responsible innovation for Wearable Technology: Designing for Circularity, Anne Prahl PhD Presentation, WEAR Sustain Open Call London Launch, Digital Catapult, 3rd May 2017
Sandy Black, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, University of the Arts, WEAR Sus...WEAR Sustain
Presentation from Professor Sandy Black, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, University of the Arts, WEAR Sustain Open Call London Launch, Digital Catapult 3rd May 2017
Recruiting in the Digital Age: A Social Media MasterclassLuanWise
In this masterclass, presented at the Global HR Summit on 5th June 2024, Luan Wise explored the essential features of social media platforms that support talent acquisition, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok.
Implicitly or explicitly all competing businesses employ a strategy to select a mix
of marketing resources. Formulating such competitive strategies fundamentally
involves recognizing relationships between elements of the marketing mix (e.g.,
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We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.
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23. “Lean startup is a basic philosophy that
systematically identifies risk in a business model
and designs research and experimental methods
to bring more certainty to the business. We do
this through rapid iteration of our business
model.”
Tristan Kromer
TRIKRO.com
24.
25. Main reason for failing?
Wasting time, money and effort
building the
WRONG PRODUCT / SERVICE
26. “Get the business model wrong,
and there is almost no chance of
success...”
Prof. David Teece
University of California, Berkley.
38. Startups exist to SEARCH for a sustainable &
reapeatable business model
Pivot
ExecutionSearch
Customer
discovery
Company
building
Customer
validation
Growth
Hacking