Innovation Tag

Innovations have flourished but sometimes they encounter circumstances that force them to innovate again, such as the climatic phenomenon, the shortage of certain components or raw materials with the risk of having to close. Innovations, for a decade, have been imposed in continuous flows in all sectors and in all company activities, leading companies, employees, customers and partners to change the way they work and constantly inform, anticipate and adapt.

The client, the partners

Both customers and partners are faced with the reality of innovation, its contributions and its limitations. In a world that has become planetary, it has become crucial for everyone to develop listening, a new way of listening and insight by shedding their received ideas and habits. And it is true that nothing is more difficult than having to constantly anticipate and adapt. Each innovation requires a cost in time and budget: train yourself, overcome your own limits and accept being pushed in the comfort of habits.

For example, companies had to equip themselves with websites, certainly profitable in the long run, such as attracting new customers, but they had to invest a budget to create them and also invest the time of employees to train them to the detriment of a first time in their tasks. , thus generating delays and stress and forcing each employee to adapt to this new tool that has become ubiquitous in professional life.

Competitive intelligence

In order to be able to respond to the demands for innovation, you must develop a keen sense of study of your innovations: knowing if they will generate future sales and if they will become a sustainable market. How many entrepreneurs have been overtaken by more advanced innovations and have not seen the new innovations coming.

Participation of the workers

The role of a business leader today is no longer to give orders and monitor the actions of his subordinates but, on the contrary, to allow them to take initiatives and develop their autonomy.

Giving them confidence and freedom allows them to build performance as well as their sense of creativity. For this, the manager must promote internal communication, and carry out a participatory approach during which he consults the opinion of his collaborators. Launching a project, for example, requires this approach. No one person has all the skills or a creative spirit strong enough to imagine everything, which is what this participatory approach requires. Forums, suggestion boxes or brainstorming sessions are also possible ideas.

Innovation Management

Managing innovation means first of all anticipating, that is, being informed and not thinking that innovations will take time to take hold: Amazon has become essential in a few months, whether for delivery or for its other activities and to impose its pace and its law on associated companies or competitors.

E-commerce sites no longer face competition only in France but on the planet, and there too you have to be aware of the needs and habits of each country so as not to end up with unpaid invoices or an order in your hands.

Entering the field of innovation necessarily requires mastery of the various processes associated with it. We can cite the example of the cost associated with innovation, its duration and results. An innovation is limited in time, so the company must always be attentive to see the evolution of the market environment as well as the needs of consumers. Also, we must not forget that risks always exist in an investment.

B2B Rocks è an invitation to fare networking rivolto agli imprenditori a livello internazionale. With my own support for the event, Montpellier Mediterranean Metropolis it has given the continuity of its support to the innovation ecosystem of the French territory.

A driving force for the French economy and occupation

Dedicated to the world of professional software, Appvizer è uno dei fiori all’occhiello della French technology. The store without its birth received the support of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole. Nel corso del tempo has also benefited from the support of the BIC (Business & Innovation Center), la cui missione è quella di I will support the innovative organization in the metropolis of Montpellier.

As Appvizer continues to grow, the founder Colin Lalouettedecided to acquire B2B Rocks, the event dedicated to the world of software and technology initially organized in Paris and Sydney.
Quest’anno il format prize vita dal 9 al 10 giugno, presso il Domain of Biargreen site of the Eoden group, alle porte di Montpellier.

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B2B Rocks in Occitania

I’m entering 2022, The Global B2B Software Market Will Be Worth $670 Milliondi cui 190 miliardi reported dal Software as a service. Specifically, the SaaS has registered a growth in the number of negli last 10 years and impiega mezzo milione di persone in tutto il mondo.

Se gli Stati Uniti sono stati pionieri in this field, è in Europa che si sono verification the raccolte fondi di maggior successo. Basti will think that by October 2021 the startup Swile di Montpellier has raised 200 million euros.

In France, with growth of 9% and a turnover of 18 billion euros in 2020, the SaaS sector is one of the most promising for employment in the service sector. A market which represents almost 1% of the French PIL and, other of the whole Île-de-France, Occitania is the region that generates the most fatturato. Reasons why they brought in B2B Rocks to stabilize Montpellier, by obtaining the good support of the Montpellier Méditerranée Metropolis.

Special support for a unique event

Da 19 anni il BIC di Montpellier, in collaboration with bpifrancearrange Montpellier Venture Capitalan event that has shown in the corso degli anni, in all its editions, the ability to bring together the greatest investment opportunity of the moment.

“Montpellier Capital Risque, in association with B2B Rocks, which has been growing for a year, is recognized as one of the essential meetings for financing start-ups in the metropolis. Consenting to our entrepreneurs who will access the internationally renowned investment fund, it is a strong signal of the influence of Montpellier’s ecology and a real rifleman of its innovation ecosystem in Occitania.“, he said Michel Delafossesindaco di Montpellier and president of Montpellier Mediterranean Metropolis.

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Organizations around the world define themselves as innovative, but very few actually embrace the meaning of innovation, and far fewer have a specific plan to achieve it. If you are working on innovation, you need to plan the figure of the Director of Innovation We tell you!

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Who is the Director of Innovation?

An innovative company is one that has the ability to create with an impact on the market. When we speak of “creating” we refer to developing new products or internal processes in the organization. On the other hand, having an impact on the market means that we are able to monetize innovation so that it is associated with a value that people want to pay for.

And all this responsibility falls on a specific profile within the companies and who was part of the CSuite level manager, it is the Director of Innovationthat is, from the CIO.

It is important to note that innovation is not just technology. We can use new technology in our organization and that is not why we will be innovating. Innovate and create with impact. What is certain is that in a large part of the cases the innovation is on the frontier of what is technologically possible.

The 3 horizons of innovation

Peter Drucker, the great guru of business strategy, said that throughout his life he met many people capable of managing the long term well, and he even knew a large number of people capable of managing the short term efficiently, however, there are very few people capable of efficiently managing the balance between the short and long term.

This efficient management between the short and the long term must be a capacity of the management level of the entire organization, and even more so, of the chief innovation officer.

A very useful planning technique to manage this balance and map growth is called Three Horizons. This technique appeared for the first time in the book The Alchemy of Growth, but nevertheless, in my daily work as CIO of IEBS Business School, it changed some in terms of time and form according to the needs of today’s digital companies that I pass on to you. explain and hope result from courage.

horizon 1

Horizon 1 focuses on the short term. This short term will depend on the type of company, but we can say that it is a space between 1 and 3 years. It deals with the type of innovation that occurs in this horizon. incremental innovations about existing products and services in the organization. In other words, we focus on what the market already understands as value. This horizon should consume 50% of the organization’s resources.

horizon 2

Horizon 2 focuses on the medium term, which for most companies includes a temporary period of approximately 5 years. In this case, the creation process focuses on new products and services, improving the knowledge and skills that the organization carries. In other words, innovation in this horizon focuses on new products related to existing ones. The actions to be developed in this horizon will consume approximately 25% of the resources.

horizon 3

This horizon is the one with the greatest risk, but it is also the horizon that brings organizations opportunities to break the existing rules of current markets and lead them, and even create new markets.

In this horizon, the objective is to develop new products, services, business models, channels or new companies that have nothing to do with what we know or do. The objective is to reflect on social and market trends to then see what resources we have to address a solution to a problem that does not yet exist, or even that may never exist. Horizon 3 proposed a time frame of 10 years for digital companies and their Moonshot-type projects.