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Idea Champions Helps All Kinds of People Originate Great Ideas

Idea Champions

The best of these will guide AT&T's development for years to come." - Robert Rubin, Product Development, AT&T. Several of the ideas we came up with in the Idea Champions session are being developed into concrete projects that are looking like very profitable opportunities." - Rudy Villa, VP, GE/RCA Licensing.

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Driving Success: Harnessing the Power of the Startup Ecosystem

Leapfrogging

Each plays a pivotal role in nurturing startups through their life cycle from ideation to scaling up and potentially becoming industry leaders. They are typically driven by a desire to support entrepreneurship and are less risk-averse than traditional financiers.

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Innovation & Growth Leadership Summit Speakers

eZassi

He comes from a background in food and agriculture entrepreneurship, which most recently includes co-founding a company that uses insects to upcycle food waste into animal feed. Specialties: Innovation and New Product Development Consulting, Strategic Insights. Quinault is a research manager in IFTF’s Food Futures Lab.

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Three Tools I Use to Enhance Customer Engagement and Innovate Strategically

Fehmida Kapadia

Paradigms of product development have shifted significantly in the last decade. The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn. To reduce cost and time associated with the product development cycle, we have to start engaging with our customers early. Prototype?—?Test

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Start With Mindset

Leanstack

Adopting a fundamentally new product development process is no different. We spend too much time building barriers during ideation with heavyweight processes like business planning, for instance. We, for instance, know certain activities are good for us like eating healthy, exercising regularly, and saving money. Less is more.

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The rise and rise of Entrepreneurs

Matthew Griffin

“When people come together with a common purpose anything is possible. Entrepreneurs are becoming increasingly empowered and the businesses they’re building have already torn down and transformed entire industries and you under estimate them at your peril.”.

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The secrets behind building a Unicorn

Matthew Griffin

This article was updated on Apr 29th 2015. What does it take to create a Unicorn – a company that achieves a valuation of $1 Billion or more within five years of first opening their doors and why are there more of them than ever? Is it luck or do they all have something in common, something that under the right conditions can be replicated?