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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

I encourage you to get it and embrace these strategies, whether you’re running a startup or in a big company. based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Inertia is the resistance to any change in the current state of motion.

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Shark Tanks are the Pumpkin Spice of Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Since its introduction in 2003, the Pumpkin Spice Latte has attracted its […]. It was the earliest ever launch of Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte and it kicked off a season in which everything from Cheerios to protein powder to dog shampoo promises the nostalgia of Grandma’s pumpkin pie.

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What The Economist gets wrong about democracy and development in Latin America

Christensen Institute

The proposed strategy however–of rebuilding Latin American democracies from the ground up and rediscovering politics as a public service–couldn’t be more misplaced. Take for example, the 2003 attempted institutional reform in Afghanistan.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

These processes and activities, along with the involved resources (Hedman and Kalling 2003) and capabilities (Morris et al. A business model innovation is defined as the conscious change of at least two dimensions of the introduced “Magic Triangle”. Industrial & Corporate Change, 11(3), 529-555. (2020). Johnson, M.W.,

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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

The need for people and organisations to innovate has always been there but what’s much harder to comprehend, and therefore navigate, is the rapid pace of change we’re experiencing, on a scale we’ve never seen before. Promoting change of any kind was seen as a threat to the established order. A new era of work and technological change.

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Sustainable futures based on Shakespeare

Norbert Bol

Van Cattenburg & Duijn (2019) relate in their article a specific case of the renovation of the Hogesluis Bridge in Amsterdam during 2003 – 2012 to Shakespeare’s The Tempest (a play written in 1611 that is full of symbolic meaning). Shakespeare is well known for using allegories. .

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

Let’s take a look at how the British cycling team went from zero Tour de France victories and ninety-five years without any Olympic medal by 2003 to sixty-six Olympic or Paralympic gold medals and five Tour de France victories between 2007 and 2017 (Clear, 2018). The spectrum of triggers for changes in the current business model is broad.