Meditec is a German manufacturer of instruments for surgeries. The company is quality leader in this sector and supplies many German and international hospitals. However, the opportunities for differentiation against competitors decrease continuously. New competitors from emerging markets are...

Innovations expressed by customers are often unstructured, unclear, and ambiguous, making it difficult to interpret customers’ contributions, integrate them into a company’s R&D department and transfer them into comprehensible requirements for the development of product, service or software...

The divestiture of a business unit — also known as a “carve-out” — is a common strategy used by multi-business organizations to adjust their business portfolios in response to a change in business strategy, and legal or regulatory pressures. In a typical divestiture, systems that were...