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Case Study: Xaxis Teaches Us About Accelerating Careers and Solutions

IdeaScale

In response to this challenge, in 2017, it launched the Xcellerate program in order to drive both internal innovation and more tightly connect the company across languages and borders. This has led to rapid growth; by 2017, it had over 3,000 clients in 47 different markets. The Challenge.

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Swipe Up: How Social Commerce is Changing an Industry

Brunner

Facebook’s advertising platform is the main driver for their social commerce business. These changes to the platform will undoubtedly boost FaceBook’s advertising business, which accounted for $14.9 These changes to the platform will undoubtedly boost FaceBook’s advertising business, which accounted for $14.9

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The Future of Corporate-Startup Collaboration

The Inovo Group

New software technologies and tools will make it possible to create Startup Collaboration Platforms that enable the relationships to become more automated, structured and efficient. They had recognized that many innovative initiatives fail in the early stage of development due to, among other things, a lack of secure funding.

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The University of Central Asia: Educational Innovation in the Mountains of Rural Kyrgyzstan

New Markets Advisors

Naryn campus in summer of 2017, at the end of the inaugural year. Credit: UCA Before I joined New Markets Advisors as an Associate, I was on the team that opened the University of Central Asia ’s Naryn campus in Kyrgyzstan for its inaugural 2016–2017 school year.

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The 5 Stocks You Should Buy This Week

Adam Hartung

Due to this trend, mega-retailer Wal-Mart announced last week it is closing 269 stores. Nobody comes close to matching the user base size, or marketing/advertising opportunities Facebook offers. By 2017, about the only place in the world you won’t be able to access Netflix is China. over the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend.

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

The BMI Lab Blog

We can summarize their business approach in the following points: The Chinese customers are avid buyers of technology. NIO is a great example of innovation based on customer satisfaction and convenience, adapting existing electric car technologies to the demands of Chinese customers. How do Chinese innovators work?