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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.

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

The BMI Lab Blog

However, very few managers are able to explain their company’s business model ad-hoc, and even fewer can define what a business model actually is in general. How do we make money in this business? What is the underlying economic logic that explains how we can deliver value to customers at an appropriate cost?” Magretta, 2002).

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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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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

To my opinion, Mintzberg’s work was a refreshing change to the world of organization design that until then has been largely influenced by Taylor’s Scientific Management Approach and Henry Ford’s efficiency-based adaptation of that. Why this typology: innovation management in organizations. Steve Blank (1995).

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Business model creation and innovation in China: not just copycats.

The BMI Lab Blog

In a previous post, we described the Chinese innovation ecosystem: a rapidly growing environment, where the role of the Chinese government is crucial to enable the needed conditions for companies to thrive and innovate. We can summarize their business approach in the following points: The Chinese customers are avid buyers of technology.

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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. One of the challenges we must overcome is that technology and radical innovations are still considered as the only "true innovations". Pitfalls to Avoid. How to Tackle the Problem.