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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., Entrepreneurship. These two extremes – and everything in between – have been topic of discussion ever since.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

New generations, societal change, sustainable goals and disruptive technology require organizations to be much more flexible, self-reinventing organisms that don’t fit above-mentioned design principles. They require openness, transparency, adaptability, co-creation, self-management and responsiveness. Academic Relevance.

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Have the Banks already been Disrupted?

Matthew Griffin

“Banks were once the corner stone of the community but today their industry is being disrupted and disintermediated. Every industry is undergoing some level of disruption and for some its more extreme and happening faster than others. Conclusion. Click and Connect with the Author: LinkedIn. mgriffin_uk. +44 44 (0) 7957 456194.

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The rise and rise of Entrepreneurs

Matthew Griffin

When I talk to clients about disruption and how the future is already fundamentally changing the paradigms of business I talk to them about the ants but I get them to imagine the people are all Entrepreneurs with a common purpose to create the next big business or industry. Disruption is now closer to your door than it’s ever been before.

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The death of the 20th Century corporation

Matthew Griffin

If you step back thirty years it would be hard to see how anything could usurp or upend any of the world’s largest corporations but today every single one of them from Boeing, GM and IBM to AT&T, Citi and Sears are having to pivot their businesses and find new ways to adapt to the increasing amount of disruption undermining their businesses.

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The Banks Guide to scouting Fintech

Matthew Griffin

If their goal is to discover new interesting incremental innovations that will compliment their existing businesses then this approach could be considered sensible but if their objective is to either avoid being disrupted, or to disrupt then it’s unlikely that it will ever produce the results they crave. mgriffin_uk. +44

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The secrets behind building a Unicorn

Matthew Griffin

Today it’s unlikely you’ll go more than half an hour without bumping into a Unicorn or their close cousin the Super Unicorn – a Venture Capitalist term for startups that have soared to $1 Billion to $100 Billion valuations within five years of opening their doors.