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    Analytics & AI
    Introduction to Generative AI

    In this series, we will guide you through the hype, showing where you can leverage generative AI in your business to create value. We aim to educate and inspire CEOs, CCOs, innovation directors, and other business leaders interested in generative AI. In this first article, we will provide you with a history of generative AI, an overview of how it works, and a preview of other topics we will touch on in the rest of the series.

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    Ventures and scale-ups
    Hidde van ManenKatja Knox
    How to govern corporate ventures

    Companies are increasingly using corporate venturing as a tool to expand on internally motivated innovation initiatives. Being a serious player in corporate venturing, however, requires governance rules and cultural dynamics that do not always fit into the existing corporate context. This is the sixth article in our series on corporate venturing. As we’ve already touched upon […]

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    Ventures and scale-ups
    Hidde van Manen
    Common pitfalls in corporate venturing

    90% of ventures fail sooner or later, and there’s no shame in that. Many things can go wrong when building and scaling a venture. Although a lot has been written on this topic by the brightest minds in the industry, many founders continue to fall for the same mistakes when building a venture. Where the […]

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    Ventures and scale-ups
    Hidde van Manen
    How to scale a corporate venture

    This is the fourth article in our series on corporate venturing. The ‘Lean Startup’ book was published more than a decade ago. By now, many people know how to get through the first stages of exploring new corporate venture ideas. The “MVP” terminology has been used and abused and many corporates have added ventures to their […]

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    Ventures and scale-ups
    Hidde van Manen
    How to build a venture

    Have you ever felt that your business is ready to build a venture but lacks the systematic skills & mindset to successfully reach your goal? Then you might want to keep reading.

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    Ventures and scale-ups
    Hidde van Manen
    When to build a corporate venture (and when not to)

    This is the second article in our series on corporate venturing. As a C-level executive or head of strategy, you are continuously on the look-out for disruptive trends and want to understand how to effectively tap into an environment that is continuously changing. You may already have specific ideas in mind on how to do this, […]

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    Ventures and scale-ups
    Hidde van Manen
    Introduction to corporate venturing

    This is the first article in our series on corporate venturing, see the full series below. This article is the first in our new series of articles on ventures and scale-ups in a corporate setting. In this series, we will share our insights from working with clients around the world to build new disruptive ventures, and help […]

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    Mergers and acquisitions
    Steven Koolen
    Bringing investors and digital disruptors together

    What happened Early disruptors were often owned by private capital or visionary private equity firms. As these disruptors scaled, more capital was needed, and with sufficient backing some were able to overthrow existing markets and create new ‘blue oceans’. Encouraged by such tech success stories, private equity funds began to see the potential of high-growth […]

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    Early disruptors
    Joris Hulst
    How online-first players succeeded

    No industry is safe from disruption. This is because disruptors have consistently found a way – using technology – to serve customers better, faster and cheaper. Over the last ten years industries have fallen one by one: first travel and media, and then retail electronics, fashion, food, and so on; initially in B2C, and then […]

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    Way of working
    Jur Gaarlandt
    Should your global firm centralize digital operations?

    To centralize or localize digital activities? Companies across all industries are facing versions of this dilemma – each organization with a different set of caveats. Why language and local regulation are not relevant and which factors should be considered instead.

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    How-to
    Tom Voskes
    How to transform your organization for digital success during a crisis

    COVID-19 exposed our resilience and flexibility creating momentum and openness to leap forward and set up your organization for digital success.

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    How-to
    How to start boosting “direct-to-consumer” sales today

    Build the foundation to own the end-user relationship and data for the future and start going direct-to-consumer today.

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    How-to
    Tom Voskes
    How to design the post-COVID-future of your business on three levels

    Positive side-effects of the COVID-19 outbreak create a perfect environment for disruptive thinking and to design your business’s future.

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    Data Insights
    How to become an AI-driven digital business

    AI, machine learning, big data – is your head spinning from these topics popping up everywhere? We demystify AI and data.

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    B2B transformation
    Tom Voskes
    How to virtualize (B2B) sales to ensure effective working from home

    Discussing the five process steps to put in place a fast and foolproof virtual sales engine (B2B) to help you selling successfully via a screen.

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    B2B transformation
    How to start and scale that “future” online B2B platform now

    We talked to business leaders who are carefully creating a vision on life and business post-crisis. Read why these times could create unparalleled momentum.

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    Digital Governance
    Tom Voskes
    How to Govern Digital Initiatives For Maximum Impact: 7 Key Principles

    As digital disruption has become a major force across industries, organizations have responded with significant investments in digital transformation. Unfortunately, recent research suggests that most of these efforts fail to meet or exceed expectations. Why?

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    Disruption barriers
    How our new digital-first routines add urgency to digitization

    With people all over the world being urged to stay at home, digital is quickly becoming the new normal, resulting in a sudden increase in the urgency of digitization and a further acceleration of digital businesses, both in direct-to-consumer and in business-to-business markets.

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    Data Insights
    AI and retail: past, present, future

    The biggest risk businesses face today in relation to AI, is thinking of it as somehow separate, or worse, not relevant to their main operations. This attitude can be characterised as, “Oh, AI is that misty thing that does self-driving cars and robots that fall in love.” It is in fact much broader and far less mysterious.

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    Way of working
    Jur Gaarlandt
    Don’t Put a Digital Expert in Charge of Your Digital Transformation

    Who should you pick to lead your company’s digital transformation? An insider, a digital guru or an ex-consultant with experience in advising clients?

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