Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The same is true of about three quarters of corporate transformations, which is probably why the average lifespan on the S&P 500 continues to shrink. Here’s What To Do Instead GUEST POST from Greg Satell Over 50% of startups fail (and that number goes up to 75% for venture backed startups). These statistics tell a […]

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Only 23 of the 568 companies included in the Fortune 500 since 1997 were under 15 years old when they entered. Historically, disruption is extremely rare. But right now, there are three forces converging that might transform finance and other industries. The first is the explosive growth of AI.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2023

A recent analysis of more than 500 employees across 12 organizations found that actual strategic alignment was two to three times lower than perceived alignment.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Speaker 3: Expertise and Background Speaker 3 has a storied career as a creative director and consultant, helping creative agencies and Fortune 500 companies alike to unleash their creative potential and drive innovation from within.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The question is, if you spent another 100, 500 or 1,000 hours on it, how much better would it become? Your editor says it is great and ready to be released. But you ask yourself if you could make it even better if you just kept on working on it. 10% better?

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

According to an article about how innovation helped Fortune 500 companies , approximately 10 percent of businesses lose their slots each year in the Fortune 500 rankings. Though there are some risks you probably aren’t willing to take, you might want to reconsider those that involve innovation.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 21, 2021

In this episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we welcome back the Dean of Innovation, Dr Jeff DeGraff, who has worked with more than half of the Fortune 500 companies to improve their innovation programs. We speak about how to cultivate a creative mindset. 00:08:00 – A side hustle is not about get-rich-quick schemes.

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Collective Campus

JANUARY 24, 2018

In this episode I speak with Arnaud Bonzom, Director of Corporate Innovation at 500 Startups.

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Destination Innovation

JULY 5, 2021

The Kauffman Organization reports that more than 40% of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children, over 50% of American billion-dollar “unicorn” startups have at least one immigrant founder, and immigrants are nearly twice as likely as the native-born to start a new company.

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Linda Bernardi

AUGUST 13, 2018

percent Fortune 500 companies run by women CEOs! of Fortune 500 companies will be run by women CEO’s. Only 23 out of 500. We need to fix the root cause else in 10 years are we looking at ZERO PERCENT women leading fortune 500 companies. WOW- less than 4.8 This is unacceptably dismal. We have not come far at all.

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Collective Campus

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In this episode I speak with Arnaud Bonzom, Director of Corporate Innovation at 500 Startups.

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The space economy is worth nearly $500 billion — why wouldn't you want to get involved if you can? Use these four tips to find out how you can get started.

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Braden Kelley

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Each day, more than 500 million plastic straws are used and discarded in the U.S. Let’s start with the problem. According to The Plastic Pollution Coalition (January 3, 2017) – “It’s National Drinking Straw Day! Plastic straws consistently make … Continue reading →

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Recent innovation in business research reveals that 88% of Fortune 500 companies active from 1955-2017 no longer hold this status. Apply these four innovation in business examples to your organization. Companies of all sizes are causing disruption. Some have gone bankrupt while others have merged … Continued.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2022

A survey of workers at Fortune 500 companies reveals that men and women have different perceptions of how men are — and aren’t — showing up.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 17, 2022

If you found yourself with a surprise $500 in your hands tomorrow, what would you do with it? It could be as easy as saying out loud, “Next time I get $500 outside of my normal income, I’m putting it into my emergency savings account.” Helen Robb Senior Manager, Financial Health Network.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 10, 2019

The average number of years a company spends on the Fortune 500 list is dropping. Fifty years ago, a company on the Fortune 500 list could expect to stay there for 33 years, but by 1990, that tenure had shrunk to 20 years. By the year 2026, forecasters expect that the average length of time spent on the Fortune 500 will be 14 years.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 25, 2022

500 acquaintances. In general, Dunbar’s research and that which followed it suggests that humans can easily keep up to: 5 close relationships (best friends). 15 good friends. 35 – 50 friends at any one time. 150 relationships. 1500 people who you can recognise.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

She has also worked within Fortune 500 companies to foster inclusion and fight discrimination in the workplace, and nowhere are these problems more prevalent than in tech. “I I think the tech industry is leaps and bounds ahead in terms of what the opportunity is for technology and innovation at large,” Brunson said.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 15, 2024

While they had a headcount of over 725 in 2020, this had fallen to below 500 last year, when another round of 25% of its staff (125 people) would be laid off. According to the Fast Company article, revenues have fallen from $300m in 2019 to under $100m in 2023, a more than 2/3 drop.

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Viima

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

52% of companies in the Fortune 500 have either gone bankrupt, were acquired, or ceased to exist. What’s more, agile companies grow revenue 37% faster and generate 30% higher profits than their non-agile counterparts.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 12, 2019

According to the 2019 Crowdsourced Innovation Report , a company has an average lifespan of 33 years in the Fortune 500 in 1965. Companies that do not do this are vulnerable to being removed from the Fortune 500 and possibly go bankrupt!

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Rapid Innovation in digital time

OCTOBER 14, 2015

How to get hired by startups? Tom Ireland from StartupCVs shares 12 wise advices with us. Continue reading →

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Viima

AUGUST 31, 2023

53% of Fortune 500 companies use Six Sigma and up to 82% of those in the top Fortune 100 embrace the business improvement methodology. Research says that Six Sigma has saved companies over $400 billion.

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Exago

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

As world-class speakers, innovative Fortune 500 companies and ground-breaking startups descended on Lisbon this week for the Web Summit 2017, we at Exago couldn’t miss the event Forbes called “the best technology conference on the planet”. The post When all roads lead to the Web Summit appeared first on Exago.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 11, 2020

By 1980, Fraze’s company pulled in more than $500 million in annual revenue. The rights were eventually sold to the Maryland Cut Corporation, which sells around 500 million straws each year. A few months later, while unable to sleep, Fraze came up with the idea of a new way to open cans using a tab. Joseph Friedman. Margaret Knight.

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Strategyzer Innovation

MARCH 9, 2020

60 years ago, the average lifespan of a company listed in the S&P 500 index was 50 years, today, it is 15 years. By 2027, the average company could last just 12 years on the S&P 500. This need for reinvention is more pressing than ever.

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Business and Tech

JUNE 21, 2023

We talked to her about why businesses should be a force for social and economic good, and how organizations with fewer than 500 employees can develop and implement policies to achieve this goal. ” What is corporate social responsibility?

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Idea to Value

JULY 16, 2020

00:04:00 – How to use the 500 known cycles, as well as linear and exponential trends, to predict hard trends and soft trends. Check out Daniel Burrus’ Anticipatory Leader Program >>> Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:02:30 – What is a professional futurist?

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 23, 2024

The average government expenditure per capita across Africa is approximately $500. One reason for this hardship is due to how much resources the continent has to spend on fixing itself. Take government expenditure per capita as an example.

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Collectivecamp

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Flow has been defined as a mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus.

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InnovationManagement

AUGUST 4, 2021

And as of Earth Day this year, more than 30% of the Fortune 500 have made commitments to a carbon-free future. In 2020, for the first time ever, solar and wind made up the majority of the world’s new power generation. In 2021, the US alone committed to protect 30% of terrestrial and marine ecosystems by 2030.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 8, 2019

corporations in the S&P 500 index. “In In 1958, corporations listed in the S&P 500. A 2014 study hinges on that axiom, attempting to quantify the accelerating rate of said change in a business/enterprise capacity by looking at the entry and exit of U.S.

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Strategyzer Innovation

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Over the past 50 years, the average life span of companies in the S&P 500 has been cut in half. It is more critical than ever to help leaders increase the resilience in their organization. Many leaders understand building up your organisation's innovation capabilities is the key to resilience but few know how to start.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2023

According to Yahoo Finance, there are only four openly gay CEOs atop Fortune 500 companies. That’s up from zero in 2014, when Apple’s Tim Cook came out. But it represents less than 1% of the cohort, well below the 7% rate of Americans in general who identity as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Is there a glass ceiling for gay executives?

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Braden Kelley

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

From building and running multi-million dollar businesses, advising Fortune 500 companies like Disney, Procter and Gamble and … Continue reading → I was fortunate enough to join Tamara Kleinberg of GoToLaunchStreet, a TED speaker and entrepreneur recently for an interview for her Launchstreet podcast.

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