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

Strategy 130
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How President Lula da Silva should help the poor in Brazil this time?

Christensen Institute

When he served as Brazil’s 35th president from 2003 to 2010, the country was experiencing an economic boom. GDP almost quadrupled from $558 billion in 2003 to $2.2 In our paper, Leveraging market-creating innovations to solve Brazil’s education paradox , we highlight two main development strategies, push and pull.

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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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Emotional Design with A.C.T. – Part 2

Boxes and Arrows

Back in Part 1 , we looked at how the emotions expressed by people and products communicate personality traits over time. We also learned that customers are attracted to things that have an aesthetic personality that’s similar to their own, 1 but they prefer products that take on a complementary role during interaction.

Design 95
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Design for Emotion and Flow

Boxes and Arrows

We create software and websites to display and represent information to people. Information architects and designers play a critical role in ensuring the products they design provide users’ with a return on their investment of attention. All this information has a lot of positive effects, but it also creates challenges.

Design 95
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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). But what is the “secret sauce” of winning athletes and companies?

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User experience: ROI and methods to measure your investment in UX

mjvinnovation

Because lately, there have been bank fans (can we call them fans?) From just this outcome, we can say that it is worth investing in UX. But we have some good news: The first is that everything can be measured. But we have some good news: The first is that everything can be measured. Is UX worth the investment?