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How Innovation Awards Can Fuel Business Growth

IdeaScale

Today we are going to talk to Atul Dubey, Chief Strategy Officer at Wolters Kluwer, about innovation. Atul Dubey: We had a very good process already, so set about to make it even better. We focused on three things. Second, we invested in training our finalists on improving their submissions and their pitches.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. She recognized the fact that many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies. Inertia is the resistance to any change in the current state of motion.

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Is Myopia the Biggest Threat to Innovation?

IdeaScale

For decades, it was the technological leader in photography. What can we learn from this? Ignoring change is often a bad idea. In 2003, Apple introduced the iTunes Store, which tied into their popular iPod. Take a hard look at what change in your industry means and what will be necessary to be ready for it.

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

The BMI Lab Blog

In 1994 Peter Drucker defined business models as “stories that explain how enterprises work” and answer the age-old questions of Peter Drucker’s Theory of Business – “Who is the customer? How do we make money in this business? WHO – Every business model serves a certain customer group (Chesbrough and Rosenbloom 2002; Hamel 2000).

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Debunking Disruptive Innovation – Why Disruptive Innovation is Not a Strategy

Leapfrogging

In 1998, when I was running the strategy group at HP, we invited Clayton Christensen , the iconic Harvard professor who wrote The Innovator’s Dilemma and coined the term “disruptive innovation,” to come speak to us. We asked him a simple question, “How do you do disruptive innovation?”. Who wouldn’t want progress ?

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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

One of the most common questions I get asked when talking to companies about their issues with innovation is “how do we prevent someone stealing our ideas? Should we get them all patented?” billion , predominantly for the approximately $4 billion worth of patents it possessed around smartphone technology.

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Six Myths about Open Innovation

Yet2

Small and medium sized companies look to the expertise of technology scouts to find leading technologies and innovations that nobody else has yet. At yet2 , we offer different services to fit the needs and budget of our clients, from small/medium companies to Fortune 100 companies. We are Already Experts in our Field.