Tag: blue ocean strategy

  • Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship

    Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship

    Innovation is all about making a difference in people life‘s, and it starts with an idea. This idea needs to resonate with customer needs, create the appropriate market attraction, find the right value network to grow, justify its financial costs and last but not least have a potential return on the investment. For that many aspects about innovative…

  • Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship

    Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship

    Sustainable healthy life is basic human necessity. We all want to live healthy, stay health and to be healthy. Healthcare is one of the aspects that can help us achieve the healthy living we look for as civilized modern citizens. We all imagine a healthcare system that is accessible, affordable, efficient with less human errors, less medication…

  • Cut the corners first – Harness the power of futures thinking

    “Futures are about knowledge. We must be inspired about futures. Futures are also about storytelling. “ explained lecturers Minna Koskelo and Anu K. Nousiainen. In the course Futures thinking and foresights methodologies we learned how futures thinking is linked to service design and how it can be applied in business. Through hands-on workshops lot of new…

  • Strategic Roadmap for Startups

    by Abdalla, Man, Markus, Juha and Theodros The term “Service economy” has changed the mindsets of companies’ strategic thinking in the 21st century. It reflects from the fact that in industrialized economies, manufacturers are focusing more and more on add-on services when trying to defend their business against the continuously growing service sector. Market is…

  • Hey executive! A few tips to make your organization strategically agile

    “The only thing constant is change” – Heraclitus We know your job as an executive is getting tougher and tougher no matter in what business you´re in. Operating environment is getting more and more competitive, fast based, complex, turbulent and blurry. You have probably noticed that the “old” way of thinking about the strategy and…

  • Revolutionary Coffee Cup

    By Tero, Eva, Pingshan, Outi and Mari This is going to be an unusual day for you! Because you don’t start checking your emails or Facebook, or logging into your Skype, MSN or whatever instant communication system you use at work. But look over the edge of your coffee cup and dare to discover the…

  • Fishing for a circus strategy

    “The show must go on”, is a very common phrase in a show or performance. It means that the audience has to be kept entertained at all times. But, it doesn’t say what happens when the show gets old? How does a show performance keep selling tickets after repetitive shows and apply this phrase? But…