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Digital platforms and their ecosystems are outgrowing all other businesses, usurping their market position, commoditizing their products, slowly squeezing them out of negotiating power and hijacking their profits. Or not? Is there a way to escape their grasp? Some kind of strategy for long-term success? How about this: Stop dancing around them. Dance with them instead.
Das Management, wie es an Business Schools gelehrt wird, ist auf dem Weg in die Bedeutungslosigkeit. Heute löst es keine Probleme mehr. Es schafft sie. Sogenannte “Best Practices” des Managements haben eine Vielzahl von Problemen verursacht, die sich erst mit jahrzehntelanger Verzögerung, dafür jetzt aber mit Wucht bemerkbar machen. In einem dynamischen Marktumfeld versagen sie. Sie ersticken Innovationen durch Bürokratie und starre Prozesse bereits im Keim.
Zwischen der Effizienzsteigerung im Bestandsgeschäft und einer Weiterentwicklung des Unternehmens für zukünftiges Geschäft liegen Welten. Und doch werden in den Diskussionen rund um Digitalisierung und digitale Transformation diese Ansätze bunt miteinander vermischt. Entsprechend weit gehen dadurch die Vorstellungen und Erwartungen auseinander. Und entsprechend groß ist die Verunsicherung über Ausmaß und Bedeutung für das eigene Unternehmen. Dieser Artikel liefert eine ganz pragmatische Unterscheidung von Digitalisierung und digitaler Transformation und zeigt anhand von Beispielen, wie die Umsetzung gelingen kann.
Open business ecosystems are not limited in their possibilities. Flexibility and speed in cross-company collaboration is what distinguishes them from other business setups, making it simple to quickly grow promising innovations to profitable size. In practice, corporations struggle in participating in those ecosystems and setting up joint business operations. Their management and governance practices are not build to adapt to the required speed and flexibility.
European industry is under threat from massively growing uncertainty. Trade tariffs, technological disruptions and fast-moving competitors on digital steroids cut deeply into predictions about business development. German managers report that their decisions can’t keep up with the pace of change in their business environment; they feel as if they have lost control. Uncertainty is so […]
Neues Eventformat beschleunigt den Aufbau geschäftlicher Kooperationen Geschäftliche Chancen in Israel, die Möglichkeit zu Austausch und Anbahnung von Kooperationen mit israelischen High-Tech-Startups – das zog am 7.6.2018 internationale Investoren, schwäbische Unternehmen und das israelische Wirtschaftsministerium in den urbanharbor. Organisiert von der strategischen Innovationsberatung co-shift, zeigten 6 Automotive-Startups ihre Innovationen. Die Stuttgarter Zeitung berichtete ausführlich über […]
After one year of exciting and challenging work, Laurence is happy: He just got praise from a customer who his company was unable to acquire for years. Now Laurence feels like he is back in the early days of the company, where flexibility was the norm. A time when it was not bogged down by processes […]
Some days ago, we read about Amazon’s latest acquisition, Whole Foods Market, an organic grocery chain. From the perspective of established business, a cross-industry acquisition like this is unexpected and seems somehow strange. From the perspective of Amazon’s goal, becoming “the marketplace for everything”, this acquisition was a logical step. Amazon aims to provide everything […]
We are proud to announce our upcoming book Future Legends – Business in Hyper-Dynamic Markets. Future markets will become hyper-dynamic – fueled by digital technology deeply intruding into the life of consumers and businesses. Hyper-dynamic markets challenge businesses to become radically more adaptable and innovative than they are today. This book gives business leaders a strategic […]
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