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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

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based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. For the unindoctrinated, “lean” is the term coined in a 1988 MIT Sloan Management Review article by John Krafcik, who recently retired as CEO of Google’s Waymo division. What does it mean in a business context?

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LEAD Innovation Selects Qmarkets’ Platform to Help Global Businesses Crowdsource Solutions to COVID-19 Challenges

Qmarkets

Qmarkets’ software has been chosen by LEAD Innovation Management GmbH to support a groundbreaking initiative – designed to leverage the collective wisdom of global businesses against the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. LEAD Proactive makes use of Qmarkets’ extensive idea collaboration and co-creation features.

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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. This is mainly due to the engineering culture that is embedded in many companies and which drives the decisions at the highest levels. Merging Theory and Practice. Pitfalls to Avoid.

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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. This is mainly due to the engineering culture that is embedded in many companies and which drives the decisions at the highest levels. Merging Theory and Practice. Pitfalls to Avoid.

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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.