The current unfolding of the Volkswagen cheat-scandal doesn’t miss out in drama. Millions of VW/Porsche/Audi-cars seem to be affected, recalls, multiple solutions, fines and damage payments, a sales decline, investigations all over the world, troves of people leaving, and now also Opel (a GM brand). We are just waiting for how more car-makers are involved …
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The question that keeps many entrepreneurs awake at night is how they can survive in an ever faster innovation cycle. Successful companies have seen their business being transformed from one day to the other. Polaroid, Nokia, Blackberry, navigation system manufacturers, media companies, have been disrupted and now the car industry is on the cusp of …
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Growing up in the 70s and 80s I fondly remember the magic of instant cameras. While we never owned one, my parents’ friends had a Polaroid camera and took pictures that magically transformed from a black square to a colorful image within minutes. Those pictures taken back then still fill our boxes with photographs. But …
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It is still mind-boggling how fast Nokia fell from the top rank of the dominant phone company to being sold to Microsoft within five years. How did this happen? And more importantly, can this happen to other companies as well? Those are the questions that researcher tried to figure out in an extensive study for …
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Silicon Valley is the most innovative region in the world, making a huge splash around the world. In the past decades whole industries have either been created or destroyed thanks to companies that had their origin or came to full bloom in the Bay Area. The microprocessor, graphical user interface, web browser, smartphone, electric and …
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