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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. Competition aside, both face opposing physical forces that must be overcome to win. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput.

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

Qmarkets

These two yahoo software engineers would go on to become the founders of Whatsapp. However Kodak’s success would not last forever, and in 2003, one hundred and twenty-two years after its formation, the company had to sell most of its assets in order to avoid bankruptcy.

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“Embrace Open Innovation or be Destroyed by it…” – A Case Study on Lego & Bagels

Qmarkets

While the term Open Innovation was coined in 2003, in a book of the same name by Henry Chesbrough, its conceptual origins are more difficult to trace. In the 1990s the company came close to bankruptcy due to the rise of digital entertainment such as video games; they needed to find new ways of exciting their customers.

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“Embrace Open Innovation or be Destroyed by it…” – A Case Study on Lego & Bagels

Qmarkets

While the term Open Innovation was coined in 2003, in a book of the same name by Henry Chesbrough, its conceptual origins are more difficult to trace. In the 1990s the company came close to bankruptcy due to the rise of digital entertainment such as video games; they needed to find new ways of exciting their customers.

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Innovate or Deteriorate – How Can Corporations Ensure That Billion $ Opportunities Don’t Slip Away?

Qmarkets

These two yahoo software engineers would go on to become the founders of Whatsapp. However Kodak’s success would not last forever, and in 2003, one hundred and twenty-two years after its formation, the company had to sell most of its assets in order to avoid bankruptcy.

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Innovate or Deteriorate – How Can Corporations Ensure That Billion $ Opportunities Don’t Slip Away?

Qmarkets

These two yahoo software engineers would go on to become the founders of Whatsapp. However Kodak’s success would not last forever, and in 2003, one hundred and twenty-two years after its formation, the company had to sell most of its assets in order to avoid bankruptcy.

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How Innovation Awards Can Fuel Business Growth

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Wolters Kluwe r is a global provider of information, software solutions and services for professionals: in the healthcare, tax, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and regulatory sectors. This is a company-wide competition encouraging the development and implementation of innovative solutions. IS: How do you select your winners?