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Can’t We All Just Get Along? Innovation and Bridging the Generational Divide

Idea to Value

While a structured, repeatable innovation process is critical to create and sustain innovation in a competitive, dog-eat-dog marketplace, it alone is not always sufficient to turn a great innovative idea into a profitable “on-the-store-shelves” reality. Millennials, whom we define as those ages 18-34 in 2015, now number 75.4

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Wisdom of the Crowd – Fact or Fiction?

Wazoku

But improving a firm’s forecasting competence even a little can yield a competitive advantage. Most predictions made in companies, whether they concern project budgets, sales forecasts, or the performance of potential hires or acquisitions, are not the result of statistical analysis and data driven calculations.

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VC to CV

100%Open

Who’d be a venture capitalist in 2015? For example we ran a competition for Orange back in 2012 and this led to an ever-deepening partnership that has flowered in the form of Orange Fun Finder. Most crowdfunding is conducted on specialist platforms such as Kickstarter founded in 2009 and Fundageek (2011).

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5 Ways FinTech Will Disrupt Your Company

Planview

billion in 2011 to $20.3 billion in 2015. Considering cybercrime is projected to become a $2.1 As millennials grow to claim a larger stake in the global market, the ability to deliver highly personalized, flexible, convenient services will be key to remaining competitive. Removing Transaction Barriers.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? Klein & Bullock, 2006; Lewin, 2011; Von Mises, 1949).

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How Telltales Told You Not to Own Wal-Mart, and Continue To Do So

Adam Hartung

Since the beginning of 2015 Wal-Mart has lost 1/3 of its value. In May, 2011 I reiterated this problem at Wal-Mart in a column that paralleled the retailer with software giant Microsoft, and pointed out that because of financial machinations not all earnings are equal. Wal-Mart market value took a huge drop on Wednesday.

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Innovation in the Era of COVID-19

Innovation Excellence

Various projects have tried to improve water availability, and one in particular in the city of Navi Mumbai resulted in a surprising discovery – giving residents more access to water resulted in them using less of it. As Scotti notes, this project “is still considered one of the boldest achievements in [the history of] engineering technology.”