Category Archives: Business

DSM’s Innovative Power: Adapting To The Future Through Co-innovation

DSM has recently been in the news twice. One occassion due the launch of an open innovation contest that challenges designers and creative thinkers to develop high-quality sports equipment using the company’s own Arnitel® Eco material. The other occ… Continue reading

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Enterprise Social Media Usage Pays Off In Innovation And Knowledge Sharing

This concludes the survey by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), the global community of information professionals, authored by Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan Center for Digital Business and the … Continue reading

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Advertising op basis van social graph verhoogt de performance van direct response en brand lift

Dit is de meest significante conclusie van het onderzoek door 33Across. Het heeft grondig onderzocht wat het effect is van de consument haar social media connecties (en content) op de effectiviteit van advertising. 33Across onderzocht vijf verticals, a… Continue reading

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Get Inspired By Silicon Valley Executives And Learn About Digital Trends And Their Organizational Impact

I encountered this interesting (Dutch) initiative “Emerce Business Course” that offers best of both worlds, creating an immersive experience. It’s an MBA-level course on online strategy at the heart of the Internet’s industry: Silicon Valley. This enables participants to have … Continue reading

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Social Technologies Spur User Participation And Speed Up Product Innovation

Recently McKinsey published two articles on open innovation. One of them focuses on the business risks, the other on the usage of social technologies for open innovation. With regard to the latter, McKinsey found that “nearly two-thirds of the compan… Continue reading

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Justin Timberlake betreedt de social TV arena met Myspace TV

Timberlake, deels eigenaar van Myspace zet zijn zinnen op de ontwikkeling van Myspace TV. Op de CES heeft hij het nieuwe sociale platform om samen met vrienden in real-time TV te kijken, aangekondigd. Myspace TV werkt samen met Panasonic en haar Viera … Continue reading

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Organisaties overrompeld door Big Data

Onlangs concludeerde Gartner dat organisaties slecht voorbereid zijn op big data. Daarop voortbordurend publiceerde Oracle afgelopen week een onderzoek waaruit bleek dat organisaties de Big Data revolutie onderschatten. Big Data wordt alsmaar belangrij… Continue reading

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Unilever at the CES: Watching the on-demand world of content and what it means for the billions it spends on TV advertising worldwide

According to the global CMO of Unilever, mr. Keith Weed it’s a megatrend which Unilever is watching closely. the world’s second-largest advertiser, brought more than 30 marketing executives the event to immerse themselves in the technologies shaping the way people … Continue reading

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Justin Timberlake’s Myspace TV: Social TV’s new kid on the block?

The pop culture icon and part owner of MySpace has thrown his weight behind MySpace TV, a new social platform for watching TV together with friends in real time, according to DigitalTrends. At the CES 2012, Justin Timberlake popped up … Continue reading

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Diensten innovatie om de retailers 17 miljard kostende retourzendingen te verlagen

Een nieuw rapport van Accenture wijst uit dat de kosten, die zijn verbonden aan het retourneren van elektronische apparaten, afgelopen jaar de Amerikaanse elektronica-retailers en fabrikanten ongeveer $ 17 miljard gekost heeft.  Dit is een stijgin… Continue reading

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