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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

Lego is now revered as one of the most innovative and successful companies in the world. But in 2003 the company was $800m in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy. It is currently rated the number one toy company in the world and the world’s most powerful brand. Galvanize the culture. Innovative use of Video.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

Unicorns are privately held companies valued at $1 billion or more. 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.

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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

All this changed however, with the popularisation of the internet, and since then there have been hundreds of different companies which have sought to profit by facilitating communication using this network. One of the first companies to offer their own chat service was Yahoo, who launched Yahoo Pager in 1998. Picture Perfect?

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Hatem Azzam, DBA

Innovation 360

Hatem is a Business Leader with successful track record and extensive knowledge in diversified industries including technology, Energy, Industrial Fabrication, Chemicals and petrochemicals, having cross-cultural experience covering the Middle East, North Africa, EU, USA, and China. Foxboro and Invensys plc ( now Schneider Electric) .

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Innovate or Die: Open Innovation and 4 Key Measures to Stay Alive

Innovation Walk

Companies commonly used to assume the best route to innovation was to control processes by keeping all data and knowledge internally and hiring the best employees. Hence, the interaction between companies and talents changed, creating new flows of goods and knowledge, driven by a greater mobilisation of people.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

From 2003 to 2007, I have been in charge of the R&D project portfolio management line of business at a solution provider. These gurus were directly interacting with companies of all industries, mainly in the US and were offering access to new benchmarks. Companies that have not yet figured this out face a double penalty.

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Coopetition

CREATORS

You can read part one HERE ** Do you remember who invented the liquid crystal display (LCD) back in 2003 that disrupted a whole industry and thereby brought the era of traditional tube televisions to an end? Even though you may not think of a particular person, you certainly have names of tech giants popping up in your head, right?