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February 2019

Can food and beverage leaders find their footing?

A new approach yields faster, lower-risk innovation

New growth outside the core business is at the top of the CEO agenda for many companies in mature sectors. Large food and beverage companies are in a race to increase the “rate of change,” deploying a variety of strategies to stay flexible, broaden their product portfolio, and keep their brands...
Consumer goods & retail, Technology & innovation management
February 2019

Corporate/ start-up collaboration

How to get the most out of it?

Why is it important for large corporations to work with start-ups?It’s well known that businesses are being disrupted faster than ever before. Innovation launch and adoption cycles are dropping. For credit cards to reach 100 million users? 25 years. Online banking? 10 years. WhatsApp? 2 years....
Technology & innovation management
November 2018

Telecoms data monetization: Reality, not a mirage

Big Data can deliver the promise of converting data into competitive advantage

Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME), Technology & innovation management
November 2018

Innovating in the digital age –a cross-industry exploration

Digital technology will transform the way innovation gets done

Our recent survey of 150 companies and 300+ solution providers revealed five key lessons on “innovating in the digital age”Digital technologies (such as AI, advanced analytics, self-learning systems and IoT) are expected to partly or even completely transform the way innovation gets done, according...
Technology & innovation management
September 2018

Time for a pivot

Going it alone has proven to be neither faster nor further

The cloud is the playing field of the digital economy. However, most financial services companies have only been able to scratch the surface. Working within its existing operating practices and vendor ecosystem, it seems impossible to look beyond the lowest-hanging fruit. We make the case that it...
Technology & innovation management
September 2018

Breakthrough Incubator

Rapidly creating and delivering new step-out business

New growth outside the core business is at the top of the CEO agenda for many companies in mature sectors. Our Breakthrough Incubator service is a unique and powerful model for creating and delivering new step-out businesses. Using this approach Arthur D. Little (ADL) acts as lead delivery partner...
Technology & innovation management
September 2018

Omnichannel transformation

How to ensure success

To succeed on the omnichannel path, there are 5 key components that need to be tackled in their integrity – in this executive briefing series, we share key insight into how to achieve this.Step-by-step we will reveal how to:Define your omnichannel strategyDesign and differentiate omnichannel (OC)...
Technology & innovation management
August 2018

Driving transformation in research & technology

Using key performance indicators to catalyze change

Research and Technology Organizations (RTOs) are under growing pressure to stay abreast of rapidly evolving business or national science and technology priorities and to demonstrate greater impact. They therefore undergo continual strategic and operational change to adapt, but in some cases,...
Organization & transformation, Technology & innovation management
July 2018

Moving from “Best Practice” to “Next Practice”

How to drive effective transformation

We are constantly bombarded with the message that we are living through a period of unprecedented change; that technology is rewriting the rule book across all industries; that any organization that fails to fully master technology will become commoditized, obsolete, or extinct; and that the only...
Technology & innovation management, Digital problem solving
July 2018

2018 Technology Trends

Say vs. Do Innovation

While KPCB venture partner Mary Meeker’s annual “Internet Trends“ report does an outstanding job as a ”State of the Digital Nation,” there is no single user manual on the related trends affecting how companies can leverage emerging technology. Often there is asymmetry between the apparent positive...
Technology & innovation management, Digital problem solving, Information management