Tag: business models
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Embracing change at the Service Design Global Conference 2020
The international community, Service Design Network (SDN), founded in 2004, arranged an online conference focusing on service design in October of 2020.
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Humanity above bureaucracy drives results
I participated to the Future of Work seminar which was held this month at Hanken International Business School in Helsinki. It is time for new solutions says Buurtzorg`s establisher Jos de Blok. Keeping old working models and trying to improve efficiency has come to the end. Why Buurtzorg? Jos de Blok had a long history…
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Making mutual funds a mutual fun
They say the best way to become a great service designer is to participate in as many service design contests and hands on happenings as possible. It was what I thought when Minna Myyryläinen, one of my SID Laurea fellow students, brought the idea to join the openfin Hack and Ideathon competition in Espoo. Finally…
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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…
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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…
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Design Thinking For Business Innovation
Innovation has always be seen as a myth, where genius is the main ingredient for it. Unfortunately this is not the reality! Innovation can be a systematic process. The key to successful innovations is to understand where the process starts. The process starts by first understanding the current needs, the current obstacles the target audience want to overcome and then formulating insights that can guide…
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Service-dominant logic in business models – a workshop with Professor Vargo
Written by Katri Ojasalo The two trending phrases in academic and business conversations are “service-dominant logic” (SDL) and “business model canvas” (BMC). Is there a connection between them? Or are they just two extremes: the first one an academic theory and the latter one a business tool? In fact, they are quite far from each…
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Implementing servitization
Aalto University seminar 20th November 2012. by Riku Seppälä I attended Aalto University’s seminar ”Implementing servitization” 20th November at Otaniemi campus. The seminar was part of “Integrating Service Management and Operations Perspectives in B2B Services”- project at Aalto University within logistics research group. According to the project description the ISMO project aims to develop concepts,…
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Book Review: Mobile Service Innovation and Business Models
Current trends that shape the western economies are the growing importance of services, the need for innovation, changes in consumer and business markets, and the advancements in information and communication technology. Technological developments like the digitalization of information, the increased processing capacity of computer chips, miniaturization and increased mobility of devices, the use of sensors…
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