{"id":17554,"date":"2019-01-22T20:28:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T17:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/?p=17554"},"modified":"2019-01-22T20:28:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T17:28:32","slug":"six-ways-innovators-develop-their-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/six-ways-innovators-develop-their-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Six innovative ways entrepreneurs are growing their companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.naviro.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WEB_BUSINESS-DEVELOPMENT1.jpg\" alt=\"\u00d9\u0086\u00d8\u00aa\u00d9\u008a\u00d8\u00ac\u00d8\u00a9 \u00d8\u00a8\u00d8\u00ad\u00d8\u00ab \u00d8\u00a7\u00d9\u0084\u00d8\u00b5\u00d9\u0088\u00d8\u00b1 \u00d8\u00b9\u00d9\u0086 \u00e2\u0080\u00aadevelop their businesses\u00e2\u0080\u00ac\u00e2\u0080\u008f\" width=\"565\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">In an age of digital disruption, every company needs to think differently about its business\u2014whether to grow beyond its core markets or to avoid competition<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0627\u062e\u0644\u064a\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u062f\u062f. \u0648\u0644\u0643\u0646 \u0641\u064a \u0643\u062b\u064a\u0631 \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u062d\u064a\u0627\u0646 \u062a\u0645\u0646\u0639\u0647\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0647\u0627\u0631\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0642\u064a\u0642\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u064a \u0633\u0627\u0639\u062f\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0631\u0643\u0627\u062a \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u062c\u0627\u062d \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0627\u0636\u064a \u0645\u0646 \u062a\u062d\u0642\u064a\u0642 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u062c\u0627\u062d \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0633\u062a\u0642\u0628\u0644.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">While today\u2019s chapter in our history is still being written, we\u2019ve found several ways to think differently about our business. These six insights may be useful to companies <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">facing a similar need to transform and grow beyond their core business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\"><strong>Focus on what your customers want, not what you do<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Your customers buy from you for a variety of reasons. Most importantly, you help them achieve the outcomes they want. But it\u2019s all too easy to overlook this and focus only <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">improving your product or service to keep up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/how-do-you-know-the-nature-of-the-market-and-the-strengths-and-weaknesses-of-competitors\/\">Competitors<\/a>This narrow view can prevent you from helping your customers achieve their goals in new and better ways<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> and leave you vulnerable to new entrants who have figured this out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">With this mindset, you should focus on how to deliver your core value to customers in new ways. For example, automakers of the future will still<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">but they\u2019ve started defining themselves as \u201cmobility services companies.\u201d They will increasingly provide transportation as a service to meet the needs of young people who have <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">little interest in owning cars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\"><strong>Innovate in business models, not just technologies<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">It is also important to create business models that help customers adopt new products more quickly. Xerox\u2019s original growth story with the plain-paper copier<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> was as much a business model innovation as it was a new technology. Xerox launched the product using a leasing model to make it easier for customers to buy a piece of office equipment that<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> was unfamiliar at the time. This is a particularly important consideration with new technologies, because they are often expensive to produce until they can achieve economies of scale. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u0627\u0644\u062d\u062c\u0645. \u0641\u064a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/%d8%a7%d8%b4%d9%87%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d8%ae%d8%b7%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%b3%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%82-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a5%d9%84%d9%83%d8%aa%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a9\/\">Markets<\/a> Even in mature industries, business model innovation can change the value proposition and competitive dynamics. In the industry that shifted its focus from <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">features to outcomes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\"><strong>Create a unified vision of the future<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">All your employees want your company to grow through innovation, and they all have ideas about the best ways to do that. It may be helpful to create a shared vision <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">and future-oriented, focusing employees\u2019 ideas and energy. By defining a high-level yet actionable vision aligned with your strategy, you can harness <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">your employees\u2019 creative energy while increasing productivity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\"><strong>Look at \u201cinside-out\u201d and \u201coutside-in\u201d perspectives to uncover new opportunities<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">There are always many possible directions for innovation, and it can be difficult to assess and prioritize a broad range of opportunities. We\u2019ve found that one effective approach <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">is to look \u201cinside out\u201d to apply your core capabilities in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/steps-to-determine-the-target-market\/\">Markets<\/a> new adjacencies, and \u201coutside in\u201d to identify new opportunities <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">for digital disruption driven by emerging technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Many companies stop at analyzing what\u2019s happening inside their organizations. But it\u2019s also important to understand how the world is changing in order to identify clear and less obvious market opportunities from the outside in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> In our analysis, we believe the next major technology revolution will be the convergence of the physical and digital worlds. This creates enormous opportunities <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">to transform how work gets done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Our world now has an enormous number of connected devices, collectively known as the Internet of Things (IoT). Sensors and electronics enable machines <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">to perceive the physical world. Now add machine intelligence, or what some call \u201cnarrow AI,\u201d which enables machines to understand and make decisions in <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">domains we\u2019ve designed with a high degree of fidelity. Now you have a feedback loop that enables the physical world to be optimized in real time. Add to that <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The ability of machines to work collaboratively with people in knowledge-intensive workflows and learn from us. This area will be a highly fertile ground for innovation <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">over the next decade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\"><strong>Break traditional trade-offs to deliver greater value<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">With the rise of digital technology in the era of the Internet of Things and machine intelligence, our customers have also grown accustomed to low-cost, personalized experiences. Compare your experience with <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Amazon, Netflix, Uber, or Lyft. Digital natives, who now make up a large proportion of our customers and employees, demand these kinds of <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">experiences in their personal and professional lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">In every industry, companies need to rethink their competitive strategy. In the past, we were forced to think in binary terms: either high quality <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u2026or at a low cost. Digitization means these trade-offs no longer exist, because it adds the option of \u201cand\u201d to strategy: high quality and low <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">production costs\u2014in other words, customization and efficiency. Researchers (and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/three-things-you-need-as-a-marketer-learned-from-the-media\/\">Marketers<\/a>) need to rethink how to deliver on the promise of \u201cand.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\"><strong>Embrace agility and boundless innovation<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The challenge of pursuing new markets is the lack of historical data for planning the future. Innovation for new markets requires a flexible, human-centered process focused on <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">rapid learning and iteration, with clear hypotheses and experiments to create new business options.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">In addition, companies are unlikely to have all the technical expertise they need, so it is important to look outside the organization for innovation. However, when you pursue<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> In new markets, it\u2019s a mistake to equate open-ended innovation with using technology resources. When there\u2019s significant uncertainty, you can\u2019t treat partners <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">in innovation like suppliers. You need to share more information and manage intellectual property (IP) rights with a long-term strategic perspective. Focus on what <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">you actually need to protect. And let your partners have the IP rights and opportunities that will generate the returns they need. These points of <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">connection let you share the risks with them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u0627\u0644\u062e\u0627\u062a\u0645\u0629<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">There\u2019s never a one-size-fits-all approach to growth, so these ideas are intended as a starting point for thinking about ways you can mix and match them <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">to fit your specific situation and goals. Expanding into new markets is difficult because it requires shifting investment from your core business to new, uncertain opportunities. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Absolutely. These practices can help you generate more new growth opportunities that excite your employees, align with your ability to deliver, <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">and match important global growth trends.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u0641\u064a \u0639\u0635\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0627\u0631\u062a\u0628\u0627\u0643 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0642\u0645\u064a\u060c \u062a\u062d\u062a\u0627\u062c \u0643\u0644 \u0634\u0631\u0643\u0629 \u0625\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0641\u0643\u064a\u0631 \u0628\u0634\u0643\u0644 \u0645\u062e\u062a\u0644\u0641 \u062d\u0648\u0644 \u0623\u0639\u0645\u0627\u0644\u0647\u0627 \u2013 \u0633\u0648\u0627\u0621 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0645\u0648 \u062e\u0627\u0631\u062c \u0623\u0633\u0648\u0627\u0642\u0647\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0633\u0627\u0633\u064a\u0629\u060c \u0623\u0648 \u0644\u062a\u0641\u0627\u062f\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0646\u0627\u0641\u0633\u0629 \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0627\u062e\u0644\u064a\u0646<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ibtdi_aa_focus_keyword":"","_ibtdi_aa_secondary_keywords":"","_ibtdi_aa_audience":"","_ibtdi_aa_tone":"","_ibtdi_aa_summary":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_name":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_bio":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_url":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewed_date":"","_ibtdi_aa_service_id":"","_ibtdi_aa_related_ids":"","_ibtdi_aa_human_reviewed":"","_ibtdi_aa_disable":"","_ibtdi_aa_disable_links":"","_ibtdi_aa_sources":"","_ibtdi_aa_update_notes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[491],"tags":[3963,18135,13775,10015,6424,16291,1083,1878,5982,1677,4501,3068,4007,18134],"class_list":["post-17554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-491","tag-amazon","tag-lyft","tag-netflix","tag-uber","tag-6424","tag-16291","tag-1083","tag-1878","tag-5982","tag-1677","tag-4501","tag-3068","tag-4007","tag-18134"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}