Business Plan
IBM INOVATION STUDIO BUSINESS PLAN
Your Name
Mission Statement
IBM is a worldwide digital firm that helps business embrace technology and digital platforms into their operations and become cognitive enterprises through Artificial Intelligence (AI), Quantum Computing, Blockchain, and Cloud and Services. Innovation is key to IBM
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Introduction
Technology is key to the success of any business in the current market
Innovation puts firms and business on the forefront
IBM innovation studio intends to improve on
the designing,
software engineering and
data analytics for businesses
The enhancement of the current innovation and market share is paramount for the innovation studio
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Generation Z and IBM
The generation is:
Both practical and skeptical
Brand enthusiasts
In brands, Generation Z is focused on:
Authenticity
Transparency
Diversity
Purpose and
Personality
IBM is considered for providing tech services that fits into the needs of the generation
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Innovation Studio’s Impact on Generation Z
Provide best texting experience
Improved interaction through video chatting
Secure messaging and communication encryption
Enhanced relationship experience through transparency
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Innovation and young talents Attraction
Tracking the progression of skills among young people
Reducing time of gaining competency in the field
Enhancing a proactive program that focuses in minimizing the skills gap
Delivering a personalized, digitalized learning experience that aids in engaging and growing the best IT talents
Promoting content creation among the young
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IBM Innovation Studio and Client Engagement
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Making brand innovation relatable and meaningful
Using push notifications for the current and prospective customers
Focusing on customer retention through follow-ups and providing feedbacks
Sharpening the company’s social media marketing platform
How IBM Innovation will Inspire Clients to do Business
Being more human and make use of real, common language and insert some personality
People like people, and the more we can tell we’re talking to a real person that has similar experiences, the better we feel
Listening to customers to ensure that we understand what our customer want
Asking questions and listening will truly take the guesswork out of business decisions
Until we listen, we really don’t know if our innovation is even important to our customer
Ensuring that keeps her world. Much of today’s customer frustration comes from a company’s failure to honor its commitments
The innovation studio will engage in the re-evaluation of the promises your company is making and hence ensure the struggles to meet customer commitments is minimized
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Innovation Studio as a Lighthouse to “New IBM”
Creation of more innovation jobs among young people
Improved banking and financial institution security through enhanced lab and accelerators
Provide attractive opportunities in the ICT sector across many countries in the world
Enhance customer satisfaction through frequent customer feedbacks and follow-ups
Enhancement and promotion of digital businesses and cognitive intelligent with big data
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Ways IBM can Show Technologies to C-Suite Customers
Instilling confidence among the C-Suite clients that innovation is cost effective and that their businesses will not be disrupted
Engaging the C-Suite client to help them understand the cause-and-effect relationship between innovation and customer success, operational efficiency, and business growth
Providing illustrations on how digital transformation could potentially deepen engagement with customers or help create a more personalized experience for them
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Passing Message Using Innovation Studio Setting
Show alert to display messaging alert based on specific conditions
Sending text/mail messages to one or more customers using the new IBM innovation studio
Sending messages by using a defined template to one or more users using the IMB innovation studio
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Key Features of Innovative Studio Setting
Collaboration
Teamwork through collaboration. Collaboration is the ability to think together and to act on complex projects. Thinking together is open innovation.
Ideation
Through the involvement of local and second-stage businesses and expansion of businesses which has a huge utilization of innovative ideas
Implementation
Implementing new and innovated ideas through a robust support program. The studio will utilize technology and innovation to document market strengths
Value creation
Engaging in value creation for businesses through incremental improvements to existing products, the creation of entirely new products and services, or reducing cost
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Scaling IBM Innovation Studios Locations
Engaging key employees across the locations during the implementation process
Use of teleconferencing to enlighten key players in the innovation department of various outlets of the company on a timely manner
Upgrading company systems and software with the addition of innovations
Training of the key personnel of the company to assist in the scaling up process
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Financing the Innovation Process
IBM Analyst’s license
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The innovations will be financed through licensing of the upgraded software
Since licenses are renewable, IBM will generate continuous cash flows that will support the innovation program
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References
Chen, Y., & Roldan, M. (2021). Digital innovation during COVID-19: Transforming challenges to opportunities. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 48(1), 3.
Chesbrough, H. (2006). Open business models: How to thrive in the new innovation landscape. Harvard Business Press.
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Rayside, D., Litoiu, M., Storey, M. A., & Best, C. (2001, November). Integrating SHriMP with the IBM websphere studio workbench. In proceedings of the 2001 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research (p. 14).
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