The rocky road from hardware luminaires to the world of IoT

It’s not just the light­ing indus­try that needs to reinvent itself. The deve­lo­p­ment of disrup­tive busi­ness models and the gene­ra­tion of tech­­no­­logy-based radi­cal inno­va­tions pose major chal­lenges for estab­lished compa­nies, as they are accom­pa­nied by far-reaching chan­ges in the orga­niza­tion. One solu­tion for compa­nies to main­tain their pionee­ring role in this inten­si­fied compe­ti­tive land­scape is the so-called “Corpo­rate Lab”.