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Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality : a $8,9 billion market opportunity in the B2B space

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The New York-based investment bank Goldman Sachs recently published an in-depth report onVirtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)’s market potential. Led by Heather Bellini, managing director of the telecom and media business unit, the report indicates that virtual reality and augmented reality are paving the way to a $80 billion market opportunity by 2025. What’s $80 billion? Assuming an entrepreneur captures a 10% market share, he…

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Identifying the client

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Although this may sound like a very simple question, a question that is so obvious that it should not be addressed, this is perhaps one of the most profound questions that any innovator has to deal with. Behind the word client they are many kinds of players: the end user, the payer, the consumer and a business partner. This is enough to be very…

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Identifying innovation opportunities : making the innovation matrix work for you

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How to use the innovation matrix? How to refer to the innovation matrix in order to leverage client verbatim? How to identify a relevant innovation opportunity based on informal conversations with consumers and/or clients? These are some of the questions I’d like to address in this article.   Using the innovation matrix the way Anthony Ulwick thought of it Anthony Ulwick provided a first…

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Exceptional CEO performance — 2/2

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I/ The Era of Anders at General Dynamics, an Example of Exceptional CEO Performance When Anders joined the company he had already acquired a stellar pedigree. He was the photographer of “Earth rise” when he was orbiting the moon as an astronaut.   He held multiple corporate functions in different companies, such as General Electric, and was called in at General Dynamics. For the…

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Generating revenue in emerging markets : making an additional 20% in revenue

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Rajiv Prabhakar, founder of Ivy Mobility

How should large Fortune 500 and FMCG companies go about growing their revenue in emerging markets? What sales and distribution tactics should they use in order to boost revenue? The obvious answer is simply to replicate what works in the Western world and apply it in an emerging market? Rajiv Prabhakar, founder of Ivy Mobility, warned me that this was not an effective tactic, as…

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The secret of Oracle’s performance: a discussion with Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle

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Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle

How to grow the total available market when business-to-business IT spending remains constant? How to increase revenue when so many things are changing in the business environment : clients, consumers, employees ? How can an established company like Oracle generate double-digit growth when client spending stays flats ? Where does Oracle’s find the market space to fuel additional growth? These are some of the questions that came…

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Disrupt from inside out, a discussion with Linda Yates, CEO of Mach49

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Innovation and organic growth are the two biggest challenges facing most large companies today. The way out? Disrupt from inside out! Despite tremendous assets and talented teams, many of the G1000 find it hard to help their new ventures reach the escape velocity required to disrupt existing markets and create new ones. Conventional wisdom says that large companies don’t have what it takes to meet…

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Dave’s take on developing innovation in global 1000 fortune companies

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Innovating in large companies has always been difficult. Senior leaders flock to innovation, but they have to meet their quarterly goals in established business operations. So how can large companies that get their resources from existing and established lines of business, with a proven profitability rate, find the resources to nurture innovation internally and pursue it with the same consistency and rigor? For a…

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Which innovation practice will work best for you?

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This is the question that Dave Blakely and I covered in a recent discussion. Dave mentioned that there are four important and overlapping perspectives on innovation in the Silicon Valley: open innovation disruptive innovation design thinking The lean startup   I/ Introducing Dave Blakely   Dave Blakely helps mach49’s clients build businesses at the intersection of emerging technologies, business opportunities, and customer needs. He…