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As corporations strive for more innovation to stay in the game, many innovation managers struggled to describe what type of innovation methodology they should follow and why a particular method can work better than others. They tried investing in innovation hubs, hackathons, agile training, and design thinking workshops to learn to innovate, become more agile,Continue reading “Corporate Innovation: On Defining Better-Suited Framework”

As one of the oldest businesses in Indonesia, pawn services have helped mid to low-class economies in getting fast loans without high interest. However, in recent years, the role of financial industry players in Indonesia has shifted by the presence of fintech. Not only banking, fintech also disrupted the pawn business because access to loansContinue reading “Pegadaian’s Transformation Strategy in the Era of Financial Disruption”

New retail is a term popularized by e-commerce giant Alibaba to describe the combination of online and offline retail through digitizing the trade process or what is called the retail value chain. The goal is to provide a better user experience (UX) for the benefit of merchants, consumers, as well as various partners involved inContinue reading “Potential Synergy of Startups and Retails to Realize “New Retail” in Indonesia”

Digital transformation is currently becoming a to-used term, not only in the technology business ecosystem, but also in almost all industrial fields, especially for SMEs and conventional businesses. The implementation of digital transformation in various fields has been proven to increase efficiency and effectiveness, both from an operational and budget perspective. Apart from business, digitalContinue reading “Building an Innovation Mindset to Achieve Digital Transformation in Government”