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5 Excuses of companies that don't innovate (and how to overcome them)

Moves the Needle

A culture of entrepreneurship snowballs. At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues. To get started: Run internal lean startup hackathons, where the process rewards iterative learning over solution building.

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Experimenting 100 innovative solutions over 20 countries in Africa

Innovation Excellence

David Ross teaches innovation, entrepreneurship, and investment at Carnegie Mellon University Africa, and serves as the founding manager of the Industry Innovation Lab and managing director of Stratera Capital. Ross: “How can entrepreneurs best approach Orange to consider collaboration?”.

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5 Excuses of Companies that Don’t Innovate (And How to Overcome Them)

Moves the Needle

A culture of entrepreneurship snowballs. At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues. To get started: Run internal lean startup hackathons, where the process rewards iterative learning over solution building.

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Why Corporations Need “Coopetition” with Startups

KindlingApp

Startup swami Eric Ries’ essential book The Lean Startup defines a startup as “a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty”, which implies an essential element of innovation. Meanwhile large corporations desperately need innovative technology to adapt to customers’ evolving needs.

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Commander in Chief of Innovation

KindlingApp

Collaboration is difficult across many disparate agencies, and one has to pass through so many stage gates to get anything evaluated and approved. IDEA is an acronym for Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship and Action - special emphasis is placed on ideas that are not only actionable but impactful.

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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. That brings us to entrepreneurial thinking.

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Strategic Thinking – 16 Ideas for Creating an Entrepreneurial Environment Inside Your Company

BrainZooming

The charge for Dean’s organization at ELC Ventures is to develop ideas to shake up Estee Lauder and the cosmetics industry. Dean related her internal entrepreneurship (or “intrapreneurship”) lessons in three areas of strategic thinking: building the team, creating the culture, and defining success. Building the Team.