Florian Kohlbacher, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo CC Hang Division of Engineering & Technology Management, National University of Singapore
Disruptive Innovations and the Greying Market
2007 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 3 December 2007
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Agenda for today Brief introduction to the aging/ demographic “problem” Challenges and opportunities of demographic change:
The Silver market Disruptive innovations and the greying market
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Demographic Change
Source: IMF, 2006
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Population Aging…
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… and Shrinking
Source: The Economist, 2006
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Business Implications of Demographic Change Demographic Change - Aging - Shrinking
Challenges/threats - Workforce crisis - Lost knowledge - Shrinking customer base
Chances/opportunities - Silver market/ Silver business - New product offerings - New service offerings
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Business implications of demographic change The Silver Market
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What’s the silver market reality? Most today’s products and services are designed for young(er)
people (age is difficult to market, products have to be “sexy” etc.) Most companies lack processes, capabilities and tools (e.g.
appropriate market research) to identify and respond to needs and wants of the “Silver consumers”. Hence, companies are only slowly realizing the opportunities to serve elderly people Japanese and (some) US-firms are at the forefront of product
creation for the Silver Market, followed by firms in the Northern Part of Europe (Finland, Sweden, Norway) Academic research has started to look closer at the issue (e.g
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Areas to innovate for the Silver Market Improved Live and Autonomy
Needs and Demands
Active Participation, Social contacts and Fun
Easy-to-use products
Mobility and travel
Health and Safety
Pharmaceuticals, gerontechnolgies and supportive devices
Luxury products and services Transgenerational solutions Cars
Life long learning and education Travel, financial and insurance packages
Housing and sanitary equipments Microsystems, Software and Electronics Design and New Materials
Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
Nanotechnologies and intelligent textiles
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Silver Innovation
“Concerning ageing, we are talking too much about technology and not about innovation. But what counts is not what is technically possible. What counts is what people want.” Professor Joseph F. Coughlin, Director, AgeLab, MIT
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Disruptive Technologies and Innovations
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Disruptive Innovation Framework
Performance
Incumbents nearly always win
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Disruptive technologies
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customers Performance that sorb can utilize or ab
Entrants have advantages (low-end and/or new markets)
(inferior; other unique features) Time
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2 Types of Disruptions 1) Low-end disruption: there are customers at
the low end of the market who would be happy to purchase a product with less (but good enough) performance if they could get it at a lower price. Æ Older consumers and workers are often overburdened by complex products and too difficult to use technology.
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2 Types of Disruptions 2) New-market disruption: there are customers
who had not had the money, time etc. to use/ consume certain products and services. Besides, changing conditions in people’s life and health give birth to new, unprecedented needs and wants. Æ Products and services for the greying market have to help potential customers get a job done that they have always been trying to get done – but have not yet been able to do so in a simple, convenient and/or affordable way. Copyright: Dr. Florian Kohlbacher and Prof. CC Hang
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Research Propositions Proposition I: The greying market is an excellent field of application for low-end disruptions as elderly customers will increasingly demand low but adequate performance – easy-and-safe-to-use – and low-price products and services
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Research Propositions Proposition II: The greying market is an excellent field of application for new-market disruptions as elderly customers will increasingly demand new products and services they had not demanded or had not been able to demand before.
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Research Propositions Proposition III: The greying market is an excellent field of application for combinations of new-market disruptions as elderly customers will increasingly demand new products and services to get jobs done that they have always been trying to get done – but have not yet been able to do so in a simple, convenient and/or affordable way.
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Research Propositions Proposition IV: Transgenerational and ageless products and services (solutions) will become an excellent field of application for disruptive innovations as elderly customers will increasingly be interested in consuming the same products and services as other age groups and will increasingly demand to consume them jointly with other age groups. Copyright: Dr. Florian Kohlbacher and Prof. CC Hang
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Disruptive Innovations and the Greying Market Case Examples
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Easy-to-use products: DoCoMo Raku-Raku Phone Ex a
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Easy-to-use products DoCoMo Raku-Raku Phone Examples Developed by Fujitsu in accordance with universal
design principles Easy-to-use (raku-raku = easy-easy) Not too many functions But: new optional functions such as pedometer e.g. Big screen (big fonts), big buttons
Æ Millions of units sold; already 4th release available
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Transgenerational Solution: Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS Ageless product For the whole family
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Connects and integrates the whole family Brain-training and exercise games
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Wii-Party
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So what? Silver Markets are a salient area of application for
disruptive innovations Gerontechnologies and other products and services for
the elderly as corporate social responsibility/ social innovation for those at he bottom (top?) of the aging pyramid?!?!
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Further Research and Events Edited Book: “The Silver Market Phenomenon: Business
Opportunities and Responsibilities in an Era of Demographic Change”, to be published by Springer in 2008 (editors Herstatt/Kohlbacher) Workshop on The Silver Market Phenomenon,
Sendai-Finland Wellbeing Center, Sendai, Japan, 07 March 2008 International Symposium on The Silver Market
Phenomenon”, Tokyo, 2-4 October 2008 (together with Tokyo Institute of Technology, SIMOT) Copyright: Prof. Dr. Cornelius Herstatt and Copyright: Dr. Florian Kohlbacher and Prof. CC Hang Dr. Florian Kohlbacher
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Q&A Thank you! ご清聴ありがとうございました。
谢谢
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