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THE PROS AND CONS OF A LEAN STARTUP

ImagineNation

Lean’ is the buzzword of the last decade, challenging old school thinking that dictates that a successful business must be resource-heavy to achieve sustainable growth, whilst also giving credence to those who want to launch “almost-there” app startups today to achieve market domination tomorrow. Pros for a lean app startup.

LEAN 59
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Dana Shadadd

Innovation 360

Founder of Imtiaz ME specializing in the areas of entrepreneurship development and innovation, Dana’s work is focused extensively on the development of the startup ecosystem in MENA and other emerging markets. Entrepreneurship and Ecosystem development. Areas of expertise. Workshop Moderation & Facilitation. Leadership.

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Dana Shaddad

Innovation 360 Group

Founder of Imtiaz ME specializing in the areas of entrepreneurship development and innovation, Dana’s work is focused extensively on the development of the startup ecosystem in MENA and other emerging markets. Entrepreneurship and Ecosystem development. Areas of expertise. Workshop Moderation & Facilitation. Leadership.

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WHY IS IT MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER TO INNOVATE?

ImagineNation

We also know exactly what transformative innovation involves, and how to enable and equip people to connect and collaborate in new ways to effect constructive and sustainable change in a world of unknowns. As well as to be resilient and adaptive to grow and flow in today’s chaotic BANI environment. Shaping the next normal.

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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.

LEAN 75
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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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Why invest in innovation consulting?

mjvinnovation

In the book Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Peter Drucker defines innovation as “the specific instrument of entrepreneurship […] that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth” Scott Berkun, from Carnegie Mellon University, believes that “innovation is a significant positive change.”