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Disruptive waves and case studies
of challengers’ disruptive strategies
and incumbents’ strategic answers
in ten markets.
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Three step methodology for gaining
customer insights, designing value
propositions and innovating
business models.
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Three step methodology for
organizing for disruptive growth by
balancing resources, power and
knowledge.
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5. 1. The next disruptive waves in media
2. Challengers disruptive strategy (case study)
Online journalism platform De Correspondent
successfully crowdfunded €1 mln. by attracting
subscribers that pledged €60 for a one-year
subscription to the site, which is focused on
context-driven content written and directed by
established journalists. De Correspondent is
constantly redesigning it’s publication platform
and social sharing options. De Correspondent
remains independent from advertisers.
3. Incumbents strategic answer (case study)
De Persgroep is pursuing a strategy of operational
efficiency, economies of scale and acquisition of
leading digital platforms for specials (jobs and
cars). The overall strategic goal is to become a
multimedia market leader in its local markets,
with a strong performance in digital news media
and television and radio channels. Print and digi-tal
editorial offices are being merged into brand
teams to enable digital subscription models.
1. Disruptive waves in media
1. Crowdfunded media initiatives
2. Location-aware media
3. Mobile media apps
4. Immersive and augmented media
5. Personalized media
6. Interactive and social media campaigns
7. Real-time data aggregation and reporting
8. Pay-per-view systems
9. Limited edition media
10. Collaborative media production
Forget information overload: consumers’
desire for relevant, useful, timely informa-tion
is insatiable. Consumers will continue to lap
up products, tools and services that bring them
the right information, at the right time, in an
understandable, intuitive and actionable way.
Technology will become ubiquitous,
universal and impossible to live without.
Why? Quite simply because consumers will
continue to crave (and build their lives around)
the unparalleled ‘superpowers’ that technology
offers them: perfect and instant information,
absolute transparency and limitless choice.
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6. 2. How to build disruptive growth strategies in media
1. Customer insights in media
Consumers thirst for information as it empow-ers
them. It puts them in control. It helps them
make the right decisions, or at least makes them
feel like they can make the right decisions. The
prevalence of mobile connectivity and the ex-plosion
of sites, tools, apps and devices mean
that consumers can satisfy their cravings almost
instantly. In fact, consumers now expect to
access information anytime, anywhere and in
real-time. But the amount of information out
there is vast (and growing every second),
modern life gives off an insane amount of data
about everything and anything. The challenge is
helping consumers make sense of it, in a way
that makes their life better. Satisfying consumers
is one of the biggest opportunities out there.
There are endless ways to do so: offering infor-mation
at just the right time, making it easier to
understand, offering useful, actionable analysis,
or even cutting through the torrent of infor-mation
and just giving consumers that which is
important (to them). Get it right, and consumers
will turn to you, thank you, evangelize you and
more. The prize: becoming a trusted assistant, a
source of not just knowledge but also insight,
helping consumers make better decisions.
2. Designing value propositions in media
Print and
broadcast
content
3. Innovating business models in media
Marketing and
sales
Creatives
Intellectual
property
Format
subscriptions
Interaction
design
Media
production
Local
communities
Online and
mobile content
Local
customers
Designed by Thaesis, 2013
Global
Distributors customers
Production
ethics
Print and
broadcast
content
Media brand
and reputation
Production,
marketing and
distribution
Ecosystem
infrastructure
Salaries Advertisements
Ecosystem
subscriptions
Smart phones
Tablets
Media
technology
companies
Shared status
stories
On-demand /
location-based
content
Ecosystem
development
Social networks
Subscriptions
Online and
mobile
ecosystems
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mobile content
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7. 3. How to prepare media organizations for disruptive growth
1. Organizing resources for disruptive growth
Preparing for disruptive growth consists of
creating three critical conditions:
1. Controlling existing assets
2. Designing a game plan for growth
3. Mastering resource allocations
For media organizations, their current user base
is their most important asset. For most media
organizations however, this asset has not been
solid for at least a decade. Managing the decline
is the closest thing to control in this case. Selling
or discontinuing specific underperforming
media formats can be a necessary step. The
next step is to create a compelling growth
strategy, which envisions the growth aspirations
and innovation pipeline. Growth can be organic,
come from acquisitions in the core market or
into adjacent markets. Disruptive growth how-ever,
comes from creating entirely new value
propositions that are undisputedly destructive
to the current businesses. Next, map out a
balanced innovation portfolio by analysing the
gap between aspiration and progress on the one
hand, and risk versus potential on the other.
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2. Organizing power for disruptive growth
Introducing new decision structures as part of an
effort to reorganize power supports incumbents
in formulating a strategic answer to disruption in
the media industry. Power needs to be distributed
in order to nourish focus on high-potential initia-tives,
incorporating those that contribute to
sustainable competitive advantage.
Strategic
intent
Focus Incubator
structure
Growth
task force
Incorporate Corporate
venturing unit
Business
development
3. Organizing knowledge for disruptive growth
To organize knowledge: create metrics, track pro-gress
and gain alignment with growth strategy.
Incumbents in the media industry should focus
on finance, marketing and leadership. Finance to
acquire and fuel disruptive initiatives in the
market, marketing to commercialize them and
leadership to balance the existing business while
exploring new opportunities.
Finance Acceleration Launches
Marketing Commercialization Sales
Leadership Balance Profit
10. Getty Images
35 million photographs released for free use online
11. Entertainment
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12. 1. The next disruptive waves in entertainment
2. Challengers disruptive strategy (case study)
Netflix is an American provider of on-demand
streaming media available to viewers in North
and South America, the Caribbean, and parts of
Europe. The company was established in 1997
and has over 50 million subscribers worldwide,
with 36 million of them being in the United States.
Netflix is focused on constantly improving the
user experience by personalized suggestions and
increasingly offering in-house produced content.
3. Incumbents strategic answer (case study)
RTL Group is a leading European media company
with three strategic pillars in free-to-air television
and content production: broadcast, content and
digital. RTL Group is building new digital growth
engines, especially for online video (Style Haul,
BroadbandTV and Divimove). RTL Group realig-ned
it’s production arm FremantleMedia and
invests in the existing footprint in Europe and in
new high-growth Asian markets.
1. Disruptive waves in entertainment
1. Unlimited-access subscriptions
2. Collaborative entertainment production
3. Online entertainment channels
4. Interactive and social media campaigns
5. Entertainment and commerce integration
6. Personalized entertainment
7. Real-time format analysis and adjustment
8. Immersive and augmented entertainment
9. Game console and mobile device integration
10. Niche social networks and discovery systems
Surprise. Entertainment. Amusement.
People will relish brands that bring some
much needed fun to the consumer arena. Intro-ducing
competitive and participatory formats,
embracing humor, or celebrating the unexpec-ted
will make content – and consumption – less
boring and simply more enjoyable.
Each person has his/her’s own
consumption realm, where his/her
preferences and tastes reign. Cater to an
individual with brilliantly customized content,
by enabling and encouraging personal expres-sion,
or by offering protection from harm.
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13. 2. How to build disruptive growth strategies in entertainment
1. Customer insights in entertainment
Play is a fundamental human trait throughout
history, spanning all cultures and countries.
Entertainment is fun, and satisfies many funda-mental
needs and desires: status, achievement,
self-expression, competition, collaboration, to
be rewarded, among others. Entertainment
captures consumers’ scarcest resource –
attention. Consumers also enjoy the sense of
connectedness when interacting with others.
Not to mention that many consumers are blasé,
jaded, sceptical if not outright bored with the
seeming endless amount of content on offer. As
a result, they will rush to embrace content that
injects some much-needed enjoyment into
their daily lives, in whatever form that might
take. At the heart of each consumer is the desire
to express and be recognized for his/her
individual tastes, personality and identity
through consumption. This is driven by the
belief that this expression will enable consumers
to shape their own destiny, to be in control. The
online experience is fueling this: profiles (that
make it all about the individual) are ubiquitous,
personalization is rampant and effortless, and
the expression of one’s likes, dislikes and
everything in-between is easy and constant.
2. Designing value propositions in entertainment
Mobile
coverage
(Premium)
content
accessibility
On-demand /
location-based
total solutions
3. Innovating business models in entertainment
Insight into
behavioral
patterns
Hardware
suppliers
Infrastructure
(license)
Large volume
contract
revenues
Infrastructure
maintenance
Marketing
and sales
Licensors
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customer base
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locations-based
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location-based
stories
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Brand
(Premium)
content
accessibility
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content
revenues
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costs
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sales costs
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location-based
development
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base
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development
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insight
revenues
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technology
companies
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Mass media
campaigns
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coverage
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location-based
revenues
Smartphones
Tablets
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location-based
total solutions
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service
Customer
data
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behavioral
patterns
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14. 3. How to prepare entertainment organizations for disruptive growth
1. Organizing resources for disruptive growth
Preparing for disruptive growth consists of
creating three critical conditions:
1. Controlling existing assets
2. Designing a game plan for growth
3. Mastering resource allocations
To entertainment organizations, the ability to
produce or buy compelling entertainment
formats is crucial. By nature, creative (buying)
power is hard to control. What works now,
doesn’t automatically work in the future.
Allowing the customer base a voice in the
development process is therefor a strong asset.
To create a compelling growth strategy, which
envisions the growth aspirations and innovation
pipeline, entertainment organizations need
stamina. Whether organic or from acquisitions
in the core market or into adjacent markets,
growth is likely to require a minimum operating
scale. Thinking of lower-quality entertainment
propositions opens the door to disruptive
growth. The biggest opportunity lies in winning
over a new online customer base, that is willing
to pay for on-demand entertainment.
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2. Organizing power for disruptive growth
Introducing new decision structures as part of an
effort to reorganize power supports incumbents
in formulating a strategic answer to disruption in
the entertainment industry. These structures are
focussed on supporting new growth initiatives
and creating focus on high-potential opportu-nities.
Strategic
intent
Support Growth
council
3. Organizing knowledge for disruptive growth
To organize knowledge: create metrics, track pro-gress
and gain alignment with growth strategy.
For entertainment organizations, the emphasis is
on development, finance and marketing. Balan-cing
internal development and external acqui-sitions
with the goal to successfully commer-cialize
new initiatives is the main focus for
entertainment organizations.
Intrapreneur
fund
Focus Incubator
structure
Growth
task force
Development Generation Prototypes
Finance Acceleration Launches
Marketing Commercialization Sales
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Audio brand launches personalized music streaming service
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19. 1. The next disruptive waves in non-food retail
2. Challengers disruptive strategy (case study)
Benelux-based Action is the leading non-food
discount retailer in the Netherlands and Belgium
with almost 400 stores and over 10,000 employ-ees.
The business generates revenues of over
€1bn. per year. Action’s business model differs
from that of more traditional retailers because
only 35% of its total product range is fixed. Action
aims to surprise its customers with a constantly
refreshed product range at amazingly low prices.
3. Incumbents strategic answer (case study)
HEMA is a general merchandise retailer with more
than 660 stores across the Netherlands and
Belgium, selling an extensive product offering in
every household category under a private brand.
HEMA’s strategy is focused on international ex-pansion
and generating more revenues from its
online store. The extend of HEMA’s product
offering is proving to be hard to remain profitable.
1. Disruptive waves in non-food retail
1. Mobile storefronts and mobile commerce
2. Real-time dynamic pricing
3. Producer-to-consumer disintermediation
4. Interactive in-store technologies
5. Concept and pop-up stores
6. Personalized sourcing services
7. Product customization services
8. One-hour delivery services
9. Locally-sourced vending machines
10. Interactive and social media campaigns
Consumers have always been concerned
with price, but thanks to a range of new
technologies, services and/ or attitudes, their
perceptions of price have become ever more
complex. High or low, fixed or fluid, universal
or personal, retailers must respond by
deploying price in ever more flexible ways.
As consumption moves beyond the
merely transactional, retailers must
change their attitudes if they are to keep up.
Consumers will embrace retailers with meaning
and personality: that are open, honest, gene-rous,
have some fun and stand for something.
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20. 2. How to build disruptive growth strategies in non-food retail
1. Customer insights in non-food retail
Consumers’ attitudes to pricing are complex
and fluid. Meanwhile, their notions of value are
fragmented. Even in an individual, attitudes vary
depending on time, place, activity, mood and
product. Always-on connectivity, new techno-logies
(e.g. location-based services, real-time
technology, and more) and new business
models are changing consumer behavior and
attitudes. With real-time information constantly
available, consumers can compare prices of the
same product in various stores, which, on the
one hand, is driving total price transparency. Yet
on the other hand, consumers are eagerly
adopting services and apps that offer everything
from group deals to flash sales to to negotiated
bargains to hyper-local offers. Consumers are
also increasingly aware that personality and
profit are compatible. As stories spread of
brands that are successful while remaining
reasonable, flexible and helpful, consumers will
be increasingly unhappy if/ when they deal with
traditional businesses, that are bland or self-serving.
Consumers live in a world characterized
by constant change and fluidity. Yet too many
businesses are still acting as they have been for
decades. The gap has never been bigger.
2. Designing value propositions in non-food retail
Products and
categories
3. Innovating business models in non-food retail
Product
suppliers
Shopping
assistants
Retail
margin
Category
management
Marketing
and sales
Municipalities
After sales
service
Local
customers
Global
In store, online customers
and mobile
Stores
Products and
categories
Property
value
margin
Personnel,
stores and
branding
Interaction
design costs
Interaction
design
Brands
Retail
technologies
Affiliate
revenues
Omnichannel
customer
journey
NFC-technology
mobile payment
suppliers
Touchpoints
with a human
touch
Seamless
omnichannel
experience
Customer
insight
Affiliates
Customer
loyalty
programs
After sales
service
Seamless
omnichannel
experience
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21. 3. How to prepare non-food retail organizations for disruptive growth
1. Organizing resources for disruptive growth
Preparing for disruptive growth consists of
creating three critical conditions:
1. Controlling existing assets
2. Designing a game plan for growth
3. Mastering resource allocations
Non-food retail organizations have many assets
to control, albeit control in a non-static kind of
way. Increasingly fast assortment changes,
dynamic pricing, constant pressure on customer
bases related to shifts in channels: few assets
are safe bets. In designing a compelling growth
strategy, which envisions the growth aspirations
and innovation pipeline, an appetite for inves-ting
in future success is essential. Growth can
be organic, come from acquisitions in the core
market or into adjacent markets. Finding disrup-tive
growth opportunities is the result from a
thorough customer centric exploration. Omni-channel
strategies allow for an incredibly larger
array of opportunities in terms of assortment
and services. Mapping out a balanced inno-vation
portfolio is useful: aspiration matched
with progress and risk matched with potential.
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2. Organizing power for disruptive growth
Introducing new decision structures as part of an
effort to reorganize power supports incumbents
in formulating a strategic answer to disruption in
the non-food retail industry. Selecting and incor-porating
those initiatives that are aligned with the
latest customer insights will provide sustainable
competitive advantage.
Strategic
intent
Focus Incubator
structure
Growth
task force
Incorporate Corporate
venturing unit
Business
development
3. Organizing knowledge for disruptive growth
To organize knowledge: create metrics, track pro-gress
and gain alignment with growth strategy.
For non-food retail organizations the emphasis
should be on research, development, finance and
leadership, balancing between internal and
external influences.
Research Inception Concepts
Development Generation Prototypes
Finance Acceleration Launches
Leadership Balance Profit
25. Food EPHEMERAL
TRANSIENCE AND TIMELINES
TRAVELERS
FSTR retail
HUMAN BRANDS
HONEST FLEXIBILITY
BITTER TRUTHS
BETTER BUSINESS
GUILT-FREE CONSUMPTION
UBITECH
UPGRADIA
BORDERLESS TECH
INFOLUST
SIXTH SENSE
FUZZYNOMICS
ENTREPRENEURIA
PRICING
PANDEMONIUM
PERKFUNDING
TRIBES & LIVES
NEW NORMAL
REMAPPED
HERITAGE HERESY
STATUS SEEKERS
GUILT-FREE STATUS SYMBOLS
BETTERMENT
BREAKING BAD
CURRENCIES OF CHANGE
YOUNIVERSE
TWO FACED
INSTANT MAKERS
LOCAL LOVE
BRANDED GOVERNMENT
FRINGE FEVER
PLAYSUMERS
SWEAT EQUITY
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26. 1. The next disruptive waves in food retail
2. Challengers disruptive strategy (case study)
Hampton Creek is a food company from San
Francisco that focuses on finding new ways of
utilizing plants to replace eggs in a variety of
different products. Over the next five years,
Hampton Creek Foods will first hawk its product
to manufacturers of prepared foods such as pasta,
cookies and dressings – the processed products
that use about a third of all the eggs. The com-pany’s
goal is to replace all factory-farmed eggs.
3. Incumbents strategic answer (case study)
Unilever, founded in 1930, is a British-Dutch
consumer goods company, specializing in food,
home care products and personal care products.
The company holds over 400 brands but focuses
on only 14 of them, which generate sales excee-ding
€1bn. per brand per year. The company is
one of the largest media buyers in the world and
one of the most innovative corporations. Unilever
strives to be agile and to source sustainably.
1. Disruptive waves in food retail
1. Mobile price comparison services
2. Same-day (drone) delivery services
3. Locally produced product platforms
4. Mobile sales of discounted groceries
5. Producer-to-consumer disintermediation
6. Interactive in-store technologies
7. Transformative food technology
8. Personalized sourcing services
9. Innovation incubators
10. Interactive and social media campaigns
Despite globalization, despite online;
place still matters. Whether driven by a
sense of pride, authenticity, convenience and/
or eco-concerns, consumers will continue to
embrace ‘local’ products, services and
knowledge.
Say ‘trends’ and many people instantly
think ‘demographics’ and ‘customer
segments’. And yes, there will continue to be
endless opportunities to identify new tribes and
dream up products, services and experiences
that cater to their needs and desires.
+/+250% revenue growth
-/-3% revenue growth
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27. 2. How to build disruptive growth strategies in food retail
1. Customer insights in food retail
Don’t forget, for the vast majority of the world’s
population the vast majority of daily life still
revolves around a (relatively fixed) location, such
as a city or a country. Consumers are still by and
large physical beings. The ‘local’ world is more
tangible, more accessible, more visible and
therefore more ‘real’. Locally-produced goods
offer consumers an antidote to the globalized
marketplace, and invoke a sense of authenticity,
community, connection and belonging. Not to
mention reducing (if not removing) the eco and
ethical concerns that hang over mass produc-tion.
And when it comes to information, ‘local’ is
relevant. While access to the world is great,
much of the time what consumers really want is
to know what is happening, has happened or
will happen right around them. Don’t deny
place, embrace it. Connecting your products or
services to specific locales will make them more
relevant, more exclusive and correspondingly
more exciting and desirable. The age of mass,
uniform, global sameness has passed and the
age of empowering niches and thinking beyond
stereotypes has entered. Speak to specific tribes
like women, LGBT’s, men, parents, families,
urbanites, immigrants, tourists or couples.
2. Designing value propositions in food retail
Universally
uniform
products
3. Innovating business models in food retail
Material
suppliers
Patents and
brands
Uniform
product
revenues
Supply chain
management
Producers Marketing
Authentic
eco-friendly
products
Global
customers
Local
customers
Global
distribution
networks
Purchasing
power
Universally
uniform
products
Eco-friendly
product
revenues
Materials and
production
costs
Marketing
costs
Local
co-creation
Local co-creation
networks
Local produc-tion
and co-creation
costs
Local
product
revenues
Local
distribution
networks
Media
technology
companies
Reviews
Locally produ-ced
co-created
products
Local
production
networks
Social networks
Advertisements
Local
production
Authentic
eco-friendly
products
Locally produ-ced
co-created
products
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28. 3. How to prepare food retail organizations for disruptive growth
1. Organizing resources for disruptive growth
Preparing for disruptive growth consists of
creating three critical conditions:
1. Controlling existing assets
2. Designing a game plan for growth
3. Mastering resource allocations
Food retail organizations have to control a
complex game of logistics, retail and marketing.
The most important assets of food retail organi-zations
are the relationships with strategic
suppliers, the internal marketing power and
customer relationships. Growth opportunities
become stronger in co-creation with these
suppliers and customers. Redeveloping or
discontinuing specific underperforming food
categories are an ongoing challenge. The next
step in creating a compelling growth strategy is
to find organic growth green fields and evalu-ating
opportunities for vertical and horizontal
integration. Disruptive growth starts with the
identification of overlooked customers in the
lower-margin segments or lower-service sales-points.
A balanced innovation portfolio can be
achieved by carefully drawing the timepath.
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2. Organizing power for disruptive growth
Introducing new decision structures as part of an
effort to reorganize power supports incumbents
in formulating a strategic answer to disruption in
the food retail industry. Creating space for low-margin
initiatives within the current complex
incumbent structures is essential to cope with
the threat of disruption.
Strategic
intent
Initiate Training
unit
Advisory
board
Support Growth
council
Intrapreneur
fund
3. Organizing knowledge for disruptive growth
To organize knowledge: create metrics, track pro-gress
and gain alignment with growth strategy.
For food retail organizations the emphasis should
be on research and development, exploring new
possibilities to disrupt the industry. Knowledge
should not be judged based on current metrics,
leaving room for challenging concepts and
prototypes to flourish within the organization.
Research Inception Concepts
Development Generation Prototypes
31. Meal in a Jar
Fresh ready meals made with locally-sourced ingredients
32. EPHEMERAL
TRANSIENCE AND TIMELINES
TRAVELERS
FSTR Education
HUMAN BRANDS
HONEST FLEXIBILITY
BITTER TRUTHS
BETTER BUSINESS
GUILT-FREE CONSUMPTION
UBITECH
UPGRADIA
BORDERLESS TECH
INFOLUST
SIXTH SENSE
FUZZYNOMICS
ENTREPRENEURIA
PRICING
PANDEMONIUM
PERKFUNDING
TRIBES & LIVES
NEW NORMAL
REMAPPED
HERITAGE HERESY
STATUS SEEKERS
GUILT-FREE STATUS SYMBOLS
BETTERMENT
BREAKING BAD
CURRENCIES OF CHANGE
YOUNIVERSE
TWO FACED
INSTANT MAKERS
LOCAL LOVE
BRANDED GOVERNMENT
FRINGE FEVER
PLAYSUMERS
SWEAT EQUITY
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33. 1. The next disruptive waves in education
2. Challengers disruptive strategy (case study)
Salesforce.com is an enterprise cloud computing
company. Salesforce.com is best known for its
customer relationship management propositions,
but is also active in collaborative tools (desk.com),
social performance management platforms
(work.com) and data services (data.com). Sales-force.
com offers industry specific products to a
number of sectors, including financial services,
healthcare, life sciences and higher education.
3. Incumbents strategic answer (case study)
Reed Elsevier is a British-Dutch multinational
publishing and information company operating in
the science and medical (Elsevier), legal and risk
(LexisNexis) and business sectors (Reed Business).
Reed Elsevier is shifting from print to data and
solutions for professionals in a number of mar-kets.
It’s venture capital arm, Reed Elsevier Ven-tures,
has invested >€125 mln. in disruptive
media, information and technology companies.
1. Disruptive waves in education
1. On-demand educational data services
2. Open-source educational resources
3. Educational programmes on wearables
4. Mobile and responsive educational apps
5. Personalized education curricula
6. Curated online educational materials
7. Unlimited educational content subscriptions
8. Gamified educational programmes
9. Collaborative education platforms
10. Free online courses and resources
The drive to improve oneself can mani-fest
itself in a number of ways, such as
the desire for better health, for greater know-ledge,
and/ or the development of new skills.
Brands and products that satisfy these needs
will therefore be ‘better’ than those that don’t.
Technology will become ubiquitous,
universal and impossible to live without.
Why? Quite simply because consumers will
continue to crave (and build their lives around)
the unparalleled ‘superpowers’ that technology
offers them: perfect and instant information,
absolute transparency and limitless choice.
+/+37% revenue growth
+/+2% revenue growth
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34. 2. How to build disruptive growth strategies in education
1. Customer insights in education
Status symbols come in more than just material
forms: health, wisdom, proficiency. These are all
appealing attributes, and ones that make consu-mers
attractive to others. Self-actualization is up
right up there at the top. Mass affluence, and the
widespread at-least-partial-satisfaction of con-sumers’
lower order needs is causing many to
demand more. Consumers around the world are
enthusiastically rushing towards the endless
new technologies that are improving almost all
aspects of their lives: reducing the friction of
daily life, helping save money, or ensuring every
experience is maximized or shared. For tech-seduced
consumers (i.e. almost everyone), in
the months and years ahead a life filled with
technology – smart phones, ubiquitous infor-mation,
wearable computers, gadgets, apps, etc.
– will quite simply appear ‘better’ than one
without. The effects of technology – connecting
people, consumers, organizations, and objects –
are shaping every aspect of culture and society.
As consumers spend more of their lives immer-sed
in technology’s ultra-flexible, ultraconnec-ted,
super-charged embrace, traditional distinc-tions
(online and offline; real and virtual) are
increasingly inadequate or even meaningless.
2. Designing value propositions in education
Knowledge,
degrees and
certifcates
Skills and
abilities
On-demand
educational
services
3. Innovating business models in education
Public sector
Staff
Subsidies
Education
Materials design
Local
communities
Skills and
abilities
Local
customers
Designed by Thaesis, 2013
Global
customers
Courses, guides,
lectures, classes,
tutors and tools
Learning
intelligence
Methodologies
Knowledge,
degrees and
certifcates
Materials
Buildings
Licenses
Content
management
Accreditation
Reputation
Brand
Media
Salaries Fees
technology
Subscriptions
Licenses
Online and
mobile learning
platforms
Media
technology
companies
Status stories
Communities
On-demand
educational
services
Video courses
Infographics
Games
Social networks
Advertisements
Fairs
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35. 3. How to prepare education organizations for disruptive growth
1. Organizing resources for disruptive growth
Preparing for disruptive growth consists of
creating three critical conditions:
1. Controlling existing assets
2. Designing a game plan for growth
3. Mastering resource allocations
For education organizations, their current user
base is their most important asset. For educa-tion
organizations focused at professionals
specifically, this asset is under pressure. Mana-ging
the turbulence is needed. Selling or discon-tinuing
specific underperforming education
propositions can be a necessary step. The next
step is to create a compelling growth strategy,
which envisions the growth aspirations and
innovation pipeline. Growth can be organic,
come from acquisitions in the core market or
into adjacent markets. Disruptive growth how-ever,
comes from creating entirely new
educational services that can be destructive to
the current businesses. Next ,map out a balan-ced
innovation portfolio by analysing the gap
between aspiration and progress on the one
hand, and risk versus potential on the other.
35
2. Organizing power for disruptive growth
Introducing new decision structures as part of an
effort to reorganize power supports incumbents
in formulating a strategic answer to disruption in
the education sector. Focus should be on creating
support and selection structures in order for high-potential
initiatives to flourish within the boun-daries
of incumbent organizations.
Strategic
intent
Support Growth
council
Intrapreneur
fund
Focus Incubator
structure
Growth
task force
3. Organizing knowledge for disruptive growth
To organize knowledge: create metrics, track pro-gress
and gain alignment with growth strategy.
Education organizations should emphasize on
developing, financing and marketing new initia-tives,
that will keep their user base interested in
their offering in the years to come. Strategic
success depends on the ability to do so.
Development Generation Prototypes
Finance Acceleration Launches
Marketing Commercialization Sales
39. Healthcare
HUMAN BRANDS
EPHEMERAL
HONEST FLEXIBILITY
TRANSIENCE AND TIMELINES
BITTER TRUTHS
TRAVELERS
FSTR BETTER BUSINESS
GUILT-FREE CONSUMPTION
UBITECH
UPGRADIA
BORDERLESS TECH
INFOLUST
SIXTH SENSE
FUZZYNOMICS
ENTREPRENEURIA
PRICING
PANDEMONIUM
PERKFUNDING
TRIBES & LIVES
NEW NORMAL
REMAPPED
HERITAGE HERESY
STATUS SEEKERS
GUILT-FREE STATUS SYMBOLS
BETTERMENT
BREAKING BAD
CURRENCIES OF CHANGE
YOUNIVERSE
TWO FACED
INSTANT MAKERS
LOCAL LOVE
BRANDED GOVERNMENT
FRINGE FEVER
PLAYSUMERS
SWEAT EQUITY
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40. 1. The next disruptive waves in healthcare
2. Challengers disruptive strategy (case study)
Moderna Therapeutics is a biotechnology com-pany
that is researching and developing protein
therapies based on innovative technology. This
technology is designed to trigger the body’s
natural processes to produce proteins inside
human cells, supporting treatment of a wide
range of diseases. Moderna Therapeutics has
signed a five-year agreement with AstraZeneca
to discover and commercialize their therapies.
3. Incumbents strategic answer (case study)
Philips is a Dutch diversified technology company,
with primary divisions in healthcare, consumer
lifestyle and lighting. Philips healthcare products
include clinical informatics, imaging systems,
diagnostic monitoring, defibrillators and patient
care informatics. The company builds on its rich
heritage with innovative healthcare solutions and
well-being products. Their goal is to improve the
lives of 3 billion people a year by 2025.
1. Disruptive waves in healthcare
1. On-demand health data services
2. Open-source health resources
3. Smart and wearable health devices
4. Mobile and responsive health apps
5. Personalized online care programmes
6. Curated online health materials
7. Gamified health programmes
8. Collaborative medical platforms
9. Non-governmental prevention incentives
10. Drone-delivered medications
The drive to improve oneself can mani-fest
itself in a number of ways, such as
the desire for better health, for greater know-ledge,
and/ or the development of new skills.
Brands and products that satisfy these needs
will therefore be ‘better’ than those that don’t.
Why the future is in technologies that
enable consumers to interact more
naturally with their environment and in inno-vations,
products and services that make life
more convenient, simpler, easier or seamless
will eternally find favor with consumers.
>$400 mln. in funding
+/+3% revenue growth
40
41. 2. How to build disruptive growth strategies in healthcare
1. Customer insights in healthcare
Beyond the immediate benefits of maintaining
peak mental and physical wellbeing, healthy
consumers also accrue status in the eyes of
their peers. Products, services, and experiences
that promise wellbeing and let users tell a story
will cause delight. An endless supply of scientific
– and not-so-scientific – studies is published
(even by the trashiest media) on the boosts to
quality of life and lifespan that healthy living
offers. Thanks to wearable tech and an array of
apps, consumers can track their daily activity,
diet and happiness. One consequence? Com-parison
to, and competition with, peers. 10+
years of social media has legitimized behavior
once considered vain or boastful. A workout
that isn’t captured and shared with a selfie is a
workout wasted. Consumers who’ve grown
accustomed to paying a premium for access to
healthy living, from costly yoga classes to the
latest superfood, will adore brands that embed
healthy perks into their offerings at no premium.
Health providers surely offer instant rewards for
participation, but what about long-term com-mitments?
Look for traditionally unwholesome
activities and transform them into status-boos-ting
healthy ones.
2. Designing value propositions in healthcare
Treatment
3. Innovating business models in healthcare
Public sector
Medical
knowledge
Compensations
Research and
development
Production and
care delivery
Local
communities
Prevention
Societies
Designed by Thaesis, 2013
Individual
patients
Medical
institutions and
pharmacies
Medical
capabilities
Treatment
Revenues from
patents
Research and
development
costs
Production and
care delivery
costs
Medical
competencies
Data and
technology
costs
Monitor and
control
revenues
Online and
mobile health
platforms
Media
technology
companies
Patient
communities
Patient
empowerment
Self-diagnosis
methodologies
Social networks
Regulated
relationships
Big data
analysis
Facilitation of
self-diagnosis
Prevention
Patient
empowerment
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42. 3. How to prepare healthcare organizations for disruptive growth
1. Organizing resources for disruptive growth
Preparing for disruptive growth consists of
creating three critical conditions:
1. Controlling existing assets
2. Designing a game plan for growth
3. Mastering resource allocations
In healthcare, existing assets are mostly know-ledge
based: medical procedures, specific
knowledge, patents and patient intelligence.
Controlling is mostly a matter of long-term
planning and monitoring. Growth can be diffi-cult
due to governmental policies restricting
(local) market domination and growth rates. A
compelling growth strategy, which envisions the
growth aspirations and innovation pipeline,
addresses these assets and restrictions. Growth
can be organic, come from acquisitions in the
core market or into adjacent markets. Disruptive
growth however, comes from creating entirely
new medical propositions that are undisputedly
destructive to the common practice: patient
empowerment is the perfect example. Managing
risks is inherent to innovation in healthcare, due
to the potential impact on people’s lives.
42
2. Organizing power for disruptive growth
Introducing new decision structures as part of an
effort to reorganize power supports incumbents
in formulating a strategic answer to disruption in
the healthcare industry. Focus should be on
initiating and supporting initiatives that could
potentially disrupt the whole industry, funded by
the optimization of current business.
Strategic
intent
Initiate Training
unit
Advisory
board
Support Growth
council
Intrapreneur
fund
3. Organizing knowledge for disruptive growth
To organize knowledge: create metrics, track pro-gress
and gain alignment with growth strategy.
Emphasis for healthcare organizations should be
on research, development and finance of new
propositions, based on new assumptions. Health-care
organizations should be testing which
propositions have the potential to disrupt.
Research Inception Concepts
Development Generation Prototypes
Finance Acceleration Launches
43. Be My Eyes
App helps sighted people assist the blind
46. HUMAN BRANDS
HONEST FLEXIBILITY
BITTER TRUTHS
BETTER BUSINESS
GUILT-FREE CONSUMPTION
UBITECH
UPGRADIA
BORDERLESS TECH
INFOLUST
SIXTH SENSE
FUZZYNOMICS
ENTREPRENEURIA
PRICING
PANDEMONIUM
PERKFUNDING
TRIBES & LIVES
NEW NORMAL
REMAPPED
HERITAGE HERESY
STATUS SEEKERS
GUILT-FREE STATUS SYMBOLS
BETTERMENT
BREAKING BAD
CURRENCIES OF CHANGE
YOUNIVERSE
TWO FACED
INSTANT MAKERS
LOCAL LOVE
BRANDED GOVERNMENT
FRINGE FEVER
PLAYSUMERS
SWEAT EQUITY
Trans-portation
EPHEMERAL
TRANSIENCE AND TIMELINES
TRAVELERS
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47. 1. The next disruptive waves in transportation
2. Challengers disruptive strategy (case study)
BlaBlaCar is a French community platform that
connects people who need to travel with drivers
who have empty seats. BlaBlaCar is the largest car
share service in Europe, with a monthly userbase
of over 1 mln. BlaBlaCar is active in 12 countries
with 9 mln. users and an average car occupancy
of 2.8 people (as opposed to the general average
of 1.6 people). BlaBlaCar’s name is related to a
system where users can rate how chatty they are.
3. Incumbents strategic answer (case study)
Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) is the flag carrier air-line
of the Netherlands. KLM operates scheduled
passenger and cargo services to more than 90
destinations worldwide. KLM employs over
30.000 people. The company focuses on strict
capacity management, cost reduction and
innovative initiatives aimed at sustainability and
customer loyalty. KLM is further unbundling their
passenger product in order to realize growth.
1. Disruptive waves in transportation
1. Smart real-time multimodal solutions
2. Electric vehicle charging roads
3. Real-time off-peak travel incentives
4. Urban ride-sharing tools
5. Online intermediates for transport services
6. Real-time dynamic pricing
7. Consumer-to-consumer transactions
8. Personalized transport services
9. Interactive and social media campaigns
10. Crowd-based recommendation and curation
The desire for recognition and status is a
deep and universal human need, and in
consumer societies, people derive much of their
social status through the goods, services and
experiences they consume. With the abundance
of choice, it becomes a statement of identity.
Consumers have always been concerned
with price, but thanks to a range of new
technologies, services and/ or attitudes, their
perceptions of price have become ever more
complex. High or low (if not zero), fixed or fluid,
universal or personal, companies must respond
by deploying price in ever more flexible ways.
>$100 mln. in funding
+/+2% revenue growth
47
48. 2. How to build disruptive growth strategies in transportation
1. Customer insights in transportation
People are social animals, who crave the respect
and recognition of others. Now status in society
was traditionally derived from having, owning or
buying ‘more’ (either literally accumulating
things, or consuming that which was rare, or
expensive). And while that is still the case for
many consumers and in many societies,
increasing complexity (in lifestyles, behaviors
and attitudes) is leading to a fragmentation of
the sources of social status. Indeed, the conven-tional
status symbols of mass consumer society
are losing their appeal for many individuals,
making for a far more diverse ‘statusphere’ than
most transportation companies have traditio-nally
catered for. Consumers’ attitudes to pricing
are complex and fluid. Meanwhile, their notions
of value are fragmented. Even in an individual,
attitudes vary depending on time, place, activity,
mood and product. With real-time information
constantly available, consumers can compare
prices of the same services, which, on the one
hand, is driving total price transparency. Yet on
the other hand, consumers are eagerly adopting
services that offer everything from group deals
to flash sales to to negotiated bargains to hyper-local
offers.
2. Designing value propositions in transportation
Travel
destinations
3. Innovating business models in transportation
Affiliate
partners
Operational
staff
Lower
transactional
revenues
Operations
Marketing
Local
communities
Travel
experiences
Mass market
Online Niche markets
and mobile
channels
Brand
Travel
destinations
Higher
operational and
marketing costs
Service
development
Concessions
Accreditations
Reputation
Lower
entry costs
Lower
transaction
costs
Higher revenues
from services
Local
communities
Social networks
Status stories
Services in local
communities
Network in local
communities
Affiliate
networks
Travel
experiences
Services in local
communities
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49. 3. How to prepare transportation organizations for disruptive growth
1. Organizing resources for disruptive growth
Preparing for disruptive growth consists of
creating three critical conditions:
1. Controlling existing assets
2. Designing a game plan for growth
3. Mastering resource allocations
For transport organizations, their current market
share is their most important asset due to the
buying horizon of its customers. This asset is
increasingly under pressure however, due to a
shift from products to services in travel and
transport. More dynamic value propositions
require constant customer interaction, which
increases the importance of marketing assets.
Value chain networks are the third essential
asset. Finding growth opportunities starts from
customer interactions and networks, resulting in
growth aspirations and an innovation pipeline.
Growth can be organic, come from acquisitions
in the core market or into adjacent markets.
Disruptive growth lies in service propositions
that lower access barriers for customers. A ba-lanced
innovation portfolio is the result of an
analysis of risks versus potential revenues.
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2. Organizing power for disruptive growth
Introducing new decision structures as part of an
effort to reorganize power supports incumbents
in formulating a strategic answer to disruption in
the transportation industry. Focus should be on
selecting and incorporating high-potential initia-tives,
hedging the incumbents for the risks of the
waves of disruption.
Strategic
intent
Focus Incubator
structure
Growth
task force
Incorporate Corporate
venturing unit
Business
development
3. Organizing knowledge for disruptive growth
To organize knowledge: create metrics, track pro-gress
and gain alignment with growth strategy.
For transportation organizations emphasis should
be on finance, marketing and leadership. Optimi-zing
profit margins by balancing accelerating pro-ven
propositions on the one hand and (co-)crea-ting
new added value propositions on the other.
Finance Acceleration Launches
Marketing Commercialization Sales
Leadership Balance Profit
53. HUMAN BRANDS
HONEST FLEXIBILITY
BITTER TRUTHS
BETTER BUSINESS
GUILT-FREE CONSUMPTION
UBITECH
UPGRADIA
BORDERLESS TECH
INFOLUST
SIXTH SENSE
FUZZYNOMICS
ENTREPRENEURIA
PRICING
PANDEMONIUM
PERKFUNDING
TRIBES & LIVES
NEW NORMAL
REMAPPED
HERITAGE HERESY
STATUS SEEKERS
GUILT-FREE STATUS SYMBOLS
BETTERMENT
BREAKING BAD
CURRENCIES OF CHANGE
YOUNIVERSE
TWO FACED
INSTANT MAKERS
LOCAL LOVE
BRANDED GOVERNMENT
FRINGE FEVER
PLAYSUMERS
SWEAT EQUITY
EPHEMERAL
TRANSIENCE AND TIMELINES
TRAVELERS
FSTR Utilities
HELPFULL
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54. 1. The next disruptive waves in utilities
2. Challengers disruptive strategy (case study)
ChargePoint is an electric vehicle infrastructure
company, based in California and active in the US
and Oceania. ChargePoint has announced expan-sion
plans in Europe, Middle-East and Africa. Its
charging stations are public and combined with
user subscription plans and utility grid manage-ment.
ChargePoint has allied with Ford Motor to
provide >5.000 free in-home charging stations for
the automakers electric vehicle customers.
>$100 mln. in funding
3. Incumbents strategic answer (case study)
Eneco is an European energy company supplying
daily energy needs to >2 mln. companies and
households. Eneco produces, purchases, trades
and supplies energy with a focus on increased
sustainability throughout the entire value chain.
Together with partners, Eneco invests in wind
parks on land and sea, bio, solar and hydro ener-gy.
Eneco focuses on continued cost control and
a ‘customer first’ business model transition.
1. Disruptive waves in utilities
1. Hydrogen fuel cell solutions
2. Space-based solar energy solutions
3. Highly efficient bio-fuel solutions
4. Real-time off-peak energy incentives
5. Decentralized urban energy production
6. Online intermediates for utilities
7. Real-time dynamic pricing
8. Consumer-to-consumer transactions
9. Personalized utility services
10. Interactive and social media campaigns
The rebalancing of the global economy,
the great convergence, multipolar consu-merism.
The shifting of the world’s economic
center of gravity and the rise of emerging
economies is not just expanding consumer
markets, it’s creating new business models.
New tools, platforms and products are
making the traditional divisions between
‘consumers’ and ‘producers’ increasingly fuzzy.
Fueled by the desire for control and involve-ment,
the participation mega-trend will
continue to grow as consumers jump into in all
aspects of the business arena.
-/-1% revenue growth
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55. 2. How to build disruptive growth strategies in utilities
1. Customer insights in utilities
The biggest economic story of modern times is
the rise of emerging economies, the (relative)
stagnation of many developed economies, and
the subsequent rebalancing of the global
economic system. This is being driven by the
epic and seemingly inexhaustible migration
from rural to urban areas. Cities foster higher
levels of economic output, unleashing a global
emerging middle class who are increasingly
powerful. If you’re not asking yourself which
business models, strategies, products and
services will thrive in this global arena, you can
guarantee that your competitors will already be
doing so. The convergence of everything from
urbanization and subsequent greater population
density, financial and ecological crises, online
platforms that facilitate education, sourcing and
strengthening trust mechanisms means that it is
easier than ever for consumers to turn into
‘prosumers’. Collaborative consumption and
sharing economy business models that move
beyond the traditional buy-own-use-discard
paradigm use resources more efficiently and
create a better chance of solving some of
society’s biggest issues, from employment to
the search for a sustainable future.
2. Designing value propositions in utilities
Legislation
Public value
Community
services
3. Innovating business models in utilities
Non-profit
sector
Trust
Taxes
Public
representation
Public tasks
Private
sector
Public value
Citizens
Designed by Thaesis, 2013
Civil society
Institutions
Laws
Legislation
Elections and
governance
and co-creation
Salaries
Materials
Buildings
Services co-development
Civil servants
Media
technology
Media
technologies
Media
technology
companies
Participation
Community
services
Network
Social networks
Communication
Businesses
Network
regulation
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56. 3. How to prepare utilities organizations for disruptive growth
1. Organizing resources for disruptive growth
Preparing for disruptive growth consists of
creating three critical conditions:
1. Controlling existing assets
2. Designing a game plan for growth
3. Mastering resource allocations
Utilities organizations have largely historically
determined key assets: their infrastructure and
customer base. Due to governmental policies,
market positions are only synthetically changing
as a result of marketing effectiveness. Managing
this ongoing marketing battle is key to control
in this case. Creating scale is a necessary pre-condition
in any growth strategy, based on the
growth aspirations and innovation pipeline.
This makes growth for utilities organizations a
matter of partnerships or acquisitions. Disrup-tive
growth however, comes from creating
decentralized business development initiatives
that include customers and communities. These
require less investments and can be counter-intuitive
yet count on widespread support.
Focusing an innovation portfolio on either scale
or decentralization is the key question here.
56
2. Organizing power for disruptive growth
Introducing new decision structures as part of an
effort to reorganize power supports incumbents
in formulating a strategic answer to disruption in
the utilities industry. Focus should be on selecting
and incorporating high-potential initiatives,
hedging the incumbents for the risks of the waves
of disruption.
Strategic
intent
Focus Incubator
structure
Growth
task force
Incorporate Corporate
venturing unit
Business
development
3. Organizing knowledge for disruptive growth
To organize knowledge: create metrics, track pro-gress
and gain alignment with growth strategy.
For utility organizations emphasis should be on
finance, marketing and leadership. Strategically
balancing building, buying and partnering for the
successful development of current and new
propositions will win the battle for market share.
Finance Acceleration Launches
Marketing Commercialization Sales
Leadership Balance Profit
59. City of Madrid
Smart parking meters charge energy inefficient vehicles extra
60. EPHEMERAL
TRANSIENCE AND TIMELINES
TRAVELERS
FSTR Financial
services
HUMAN BRANDS
HONEST FLEXIBILITY
BITTER TRUTHS
BETTER BUSINESS
GUILT-FREE CONSUMPTION
UBITECH
UPGRADIA
BORDERLESS TECH
INFOLUST
SIXTH SENSE
FUZZYNOMICS
ENTREPRENEURIA
PRICING
PANDEMONIUM
PERKFUNDING
TRIBES & LIVES
NEW NORMAL
REMAPPED
HERITAGE HERESY
STATUS SEEKERS
GUILT-FREE STATUS SYMBOLS
BETTERMENT
BREAKING BAD
CURRENCIES OF CHANGE
YOUNIVERSE
TWO FACED
INSTANT MAKERS
LOCAL LOVE
BRANDED GOVERNMENT
FRINGE FEVER
PLAYSUMERS
SWEAT EQUITY
HELPFULL
PREEMPTFULL
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61. 1. The next disruptive waves in financial services
2. Challengers disruptive strategy (case study)
American banking company Simple aims to sim-plify
banking, giving consumers human customer
service, clear and simple policies, and no hidden
fees. Simple offers an exclusively online consumer
banking service proposition without any physical
branches. Simple earns revenue by collecting
interest on customer deposits and through the
collection of interchange fees. In 2014, Simple
was acquired by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria.
>$18 mln. in funding
3. Incumbents strategic answer (case study)
ABN AMRO is a full-service bank in the Nether-lands
for retail, private, commercial and merchant
clients. ABN AMRO admits there is a need for
greater transparency in the financial industry and
for a more robust financial system. Their strategic
answer is a claim for a values-based culture of
integrity across the organization, in which emplo-yees
consistently live up to ethical standards. In
addition, ABN AMRO pursues a growth strategy.
1. Disruptive waves in financial services
1. On-demand financial data services
2. Banking solutions on wearables
3. Mobile and responsive banking apps
4. Cash-free systems and markets
5. Social peer-to-peer initiatives
6. Peer-to-peer money transfers
7. Open-source financial expertise platforms
8. Crowdfunding platforms
9. Personalized financial services
10. Interactive and social media campaigns
Consumers crave business models and
products that don’t have – or indeed
associate them with – negative environmental
or social impacts. Which is why the only long-term
competitive advantage will be solutions
that are good for people, society, and the planet.
People are social animals, and will forever
enjoy coming together, making connec-tions,
collaborating and sharing experiences.
The good news? There have never been more
opportunities to cater to, benefit from or facili-tate
this basic desire. All together now!
0% profit growth
61
62. 2. How to build disruptive growth strategies in financial services
1. Customer insights in financial services
For too long, financial institutions allowed
themselves to be blind to the external impacts
of their actions. Indeed, this blindness was
tolerated if not encouraged by consumers who
were happy to focus on what was in front of
them: the product, its performance and the
price. But consumer attitudes have changed.
Driven by the convergence of greater
transparency with more progressive socio-environmental
attitudes, consumers are paying
more attention to previously invisible elements
of financial institutions’ processes, behaviours
and impacts, and they are not afraid to flex their
muscles if they don’t like what they discover.
For an increasing number of consumers around
the world, status is no longer simply about
accumulating more money or ‘stuff’. Instead,
these consumers have adopted new status
symbols, with social value linked to consuming
financial products and services with ethical or
sustainable business practices. Conscious
consumption is replacing conspicuous
consumption. But whether you call it social
business, triple bottom line or shared value
financial institutions that deliver solutions that
benefit people, society and the planet will win.
2. Designing value propositions in fin. services
Banking and
investments
Insurances and
retirement
services
Advisory
services
Community
facilitation
services
3. Innovating business models in fin. services
National
governments
Financial
resources
Operating
revenues
Financial
management
Community
management
Local
communities
Insurances and
retirement
services
Businesses
Communities
Offices and
agents
Trans-parency
Banking and
investments
Supranational
institutions
Information
and media
technology
Salaries
Technology
management
Secure
infrastructure
and platforms
Operating
costs
Online and
mobile
channels
Advisory
services
Reliability and
reputation
Relational
activities
Consumers
Community
costs /
revenues
Public
stakeholder
management
Social networks
Community
and educational
activities
Community
facilitation
services
Financial
profits
63. 3. How to prepare financial services organizations for disruptive growth
1. Organizing resources for disruptive growth
Preparing for disruptive growth consists of
creating three critical conditions:
1. Controlling existing assets
2. Designing a game plan for growth
3. Mastering resource allocations
Controlling financial assets are core activities for
financial services organizations. A renewed
customer and community focus results in an
increase of the importance of customer and
community relations. By redefining the role
financial services organizations play in our
societies, growth opportunities appear. To
create a compelling growth strategy, which
envisions the growth aspirations and innovation
pipeline, financial services organizations have to
realign with expectations from customers and
communities. By designing a game plan for
growth from scratch and possibly in a new
branch and under a new brand, disruptive
growth becomes a promising option. By
mapping out a balanced innovation portfolio,
risk and potential can be managed, while
building the financial services of the future.
63
2. Organizing power for disruptive growth
Introducing new decision structures as part of an
effort to reorganize power supports incumbents
in formulating a strategic answer to disruption in
the financial services industry. Creating power
structures that support completely new and
externally driven initiatives is of crucial strategic
importance for incumbent organizations.
Strategic
intent
Initiate Training
unit
Advisory
board
Support Growth
council
Intrapreneur
fund
3. Organizing knowledge for disruptive growth
To organize knowledge: create metrics, track pro-gress
and gain alignment with growth strategy.
For financial services organizations emphasis
should be on research, development and finance.
Knowledge strategies should be focussed on
developing propositions based on external
insights and supporting high potential initiatives.
Research Inception Concepts
Development Generation Prototypes
Finance Acceleration Launches
67. Professional
HUMAN BRANDS
EPHEMERAL
HONEST FLEXIBILITY
TRANSIENCE AND TIMELINES
BITTER TRUTHS
TRAVELERS
FSTR services
BETTER BUSINESS
GUILT-FREE CONSUMPTION
UBITECH
UPGRADIA
BORDERLESS TECH
INFOLUST
SIXTH SENSE
FUZZYNOMICS
ENTREPRENEURIA
PRICING
PANDEMONIUM
PERKFUNDING
TRIBES & LIVES
NEW NORMAL
REMAPPED
HERITAGE HERESY
STATUS SEEKERS
GUILT-FREE STATUS SYMBOLS
BETTERMENT
BREAKING BAD
CURRENCIES OF CHANGE
YOUNIVERSE
TWO FACED
INSTANT MAKERS
LOCAL LOVE
BRANDED GOVERNMENT
FRINGE FEVER
PLAYSUMERS
SWEAT EQUITY
HELPFULL
PREEMPTFULL
VIDEO VALETS
JOYNING
GET THE MESSAGE
68. 1. The next disruptive waves in professional services
2. Challengers disruptive strategy (case study)
Thaesis, founded in the Netherlands in 2006,
supports the executive management, share-holders
and potential acquirers of organizations
in realising winning strategies that lead to
sustainable business results. Thaesis focuses on
rapidly changing markets and delivers results in
close collaboration with business owners and key
team members. Unique in their approach is a
extremely short lead time and deep involvement.
3. Incumbents strategic answer (case study)
McKinsey & Company has provided strategic
advice to corporations and other organizations
since 1926, when James O. McKinsey opened a
consulting office in Chicago. McKinsey opened its
first international office in London in 1959, and
has expanded steadily since. It now has over 100
offices in over 50 countries, making it the biggest
pure consulting firm in the world. McKinsey offers
a portfolio of tools for data-driven analytics.
1. Disruptive waves in professional services
1. Mobile professional services apps
2. Personalized professional services
3. Interactive and social media campaigns
4. Real-time data aggregation and analysis
5. Collaborative services delivery
6. Unlimited-usage subscriptions
7. Mobile storefronts and mobile commerce
8. Real-time dynamic pricing
9. Professional peer-to-peer initiatives
10. Open-source professional service platforms
Whether to satisfy their ever-shorter
attention spans, their lust for the ‘now’,
their craving for real, physical interaction, or to
free themselves from the hassle of ownership,
consumers are rushing to collect as many
experiences and stories as possible.
New tools, platforms and products are
making the traditional divisions between
‘consumers’ and ‘producers’ increasingly fuzzy.
Fueled by the desire for control, involvement,
authenticity, self-expression and/ or relevance,
the participation mega-trend will continue to
grow as consumers jump into the service arena.
+/+40% revenue growth
+/+4% revenue growth
68
69. 2. How to build disruptive growth strategies in professional services
1. Customer insights in professional services
Modern businesses are immersed in an endless
sea of potential services. What’s next? Buy more,
or actually do more? Also, as businesses’ pro-cesses
become more transient, access to
experiences is often as good as, if not better
than, ownership of physical assets. Flexibility,
convenience, immediacy, participation, choice.
On the ‘demand’ side, participating in the
business arena satisfies many fundamental and
deep-rooted desires: for control, status,
relevance to name just a few. On the ‘supply’
side, the convergence of everything from
urbanization and subsequent greater population
density, financial and ecological crises, online
platforms that facilitate education, sourcing and
distribution and strengthening trust mecha-nisms
means that it is easier than ever for
consumers to turn into ‘prosumers’. There are
many reasons to celebrate the fragmentation
and expansion of service delivery beyond just
traditional ‘businesses’. The diversity, inventive-ness,
and sheer number of innovations on offer
in the business arena is now increasingly closer
to matching the range of desires or imaginings
of customers, meaning a more satisfying and
relevant experience.
2. Designing value propositions in prof. services
Smartphones
Tablets
Laptops
Touch screens
Wireless sound
systems
3. Innovating business models in prof. services
Universities
Developers
Device sales
Research &
Development
Marketing
Production
factories
Apps
Local
customers
Designed by Thaesis, 2013
Global
customers
Distributors
(Online) retail
Resellers
Patents
Touch screens
Wireless sound
systems
Production,
marketing and
legal costs
Knowledge of
technological
advancements
Behavioral
research
Salaries App sales
Service fees
User
communities
Semi-automated
service contact
Co-creation
Account
management
Smartphones
Tablets
Laptops
Service delivery
Technology
research
Online
Online media customers
Responsive
service
propositions
Knowledge of
behavioral
patterns
Apps
Responsive
service
propositions
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70. 3. How to prepare professional services organizations for disruptive growth
1. Organizing resources for disruptive growth
Preparing for disruptive growth consists of
creating three critical conditions:
1. Controlling existing assets
2. Designing a game plan for growth
3. Mastering resource allocations
In professional services, the ability to keep track
with the evolution of clients’ needs is a key
asset. An increased specialization of high impact
professional services firms is another key asset.
By being in control of these drivers for change,
professional services firms move beyond the
traditional time and materials based business
models. A growth strategy that is based on a
shared ambition to eliminate risks and create
actual change within clients’ organization is
needed. Wherever non-standardized problem
solutions and facilitated networks are central in
professional services, disruptive growth
becomes a possibility. Technology and/or net-work
form the basis of disruptive growth.
Balancing risk and potential can be achieved in
collaboration with clients only, there is no such
thing as stand-alone service innovation.
70
2. Organizing power for disruptive growth
Introducing new decision structures as part of an
effort to reorganize power supports incumbents
in formulating a strategic answer to disruption in
the professional services industry. Creating power
structures that support and select high-potential
initiatives in close cooperation with customers
and partners is key to incumbents’ strategy.
Strategic
intent
Support Growth
council
Intrapreneur
fund
Focus Incubator
structure
Growth
task force
3. Organizing knowledge for disruptive growth
To organize knowledge: create metrics, track pro-gress
and gain alignment with growth strategy.
For professional services organizations emphasis
should be on development, finance and marke-ting.
Knowledge strategies should be focussed on
generating, accelerating and commercializing
high-potential on the job service propositions.
Development Generation Prototypes
Finance Acceleration Launches
Marketing Commercialization Sales
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Boardroom
acceleration
company
Ouke Arts (partner)
Partner of consulting firm Thaesis and
practitioner at the Amsterdam School of
Management Consulting. Thaesis chal-lenges
assumptions that underly current
business models and develops strategies
for companies in rapidly changing markets.
Ouke joined Thaesis in 2010 after working
at PwC Consulting for seven years with a
degree in Information Management and
Technology from Tilburg University. Ouke
specializes in transforming markets, media
technologies and disruptive business
models. Ouke is an experienced keynote
speaker who delivers engaging, inspiring
and forward thinking sessions.
Whenever the characteristics of customers, technology and
or legislation changes, trends may come to an end. This may
then form the incentive for new organizations to enter
existing markets which often puts incumbents, which used to
have an excellent position, under new pressure. Thaesis
explains these events and their influence on transforming
markets through different means, such as frequent (scientific)
publications
Our characteristics
• Established in 2006
• Independent strategy firm
• Located in the Netherlands
• Discovery of business logic
• Acceleration of new business
• Focus on rapidly changing markets
Strategic acceleration at the right moment
Our services
• Growth strategies
• Business development
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• Management of transitions
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Thaesis supports the executive management, shareholders
and potential acquirers of organizations in designing and
realizing winning strategies that lead to sustainable business
results. The activities of Thaesis can be divided into three
areas: strategy, transitions and research. Our 150+ client
portfolio includes ABN AMRO, BBC, Bruna, Cyrte, IDTV, HP,
De Persgroep, ING, Galapagos, Profile Tyrecenter, Rabobank,
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Transaction
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Post Transaction Growth Pre Transaction Transaction
(Divestment)
Company value Investment Stage
in portfolio
Strategic review
based on market
expertise or
commerical due
diligence
Plan for first 100
days and support
in executing
growth strategy
Growth strategy in preparation
of divestment
1
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cooperation with
executive management
Identification and selection of
potential buy-and-build
candidates
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