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On the Origin of Companies

David Marks

Companies who choose to act decisively, can adapt to shifting business environments at will. Similarly to the natural world, weaker and ill-suited companies will prosper during good times, roaming the markets, making profits and gathering fat. Most companies combine some strengths over both axes. They innovate.

Company 40
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On the Origin of Companies

David Marks

Companies who choose to act decisively, can adapt to shifting business environments at will. Similarly to the natural world, weaker and ill-suited companies will prosper during good times, roaming the markets, making profits and gathering fat. Most companies combine some strengths over both axes. They innovate.

Company 40
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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation (Part 5): Crucial Lessons to Strengthen CVC Success

Corporate Innovation

The lessons in this post would be of value to CVCs looking for best practices and corporate leaders whose companies have already established venture organizations or are considering doing so as part of enabling innovation. How can a company set up and operate a CVC organization for long-term success? More CVCs — but will they last?

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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation (Part 5): Crucial Lessons to Strengthen CVC Success

Corporate Innovation

The lessons in this post would be of value to CVCs looking for best practices and corporate leaders whose companies have already established venture organizations or are considering doing so as part of enabling innovation. How can a company set up and operate a CVC organization for long-term success? More CVCs — but will they last?

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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation (Part 5): Crucial Lessons to Strengthen CVC Success

Corporate Innovation

The lessons in this post would be of value to CVCs looking for best practices and corporate leaders whose companies have already established venture organizations or are considering doing so as part of enabling innovation. How can a company set up and operate a CVC organization for long-term success? More CVCs — but will they last?

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Innovation is a team sport

Cris Beswick

Correcting the false narratives The return your company expects from innovation shouldn’t be confined to the R&D department or an innovation lab or, indeed, be the job of a single team. Or is it more likely that they’ve been conditioned by the outdated system the company runs by to pull away from anything off the well-trodden path?