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50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Open Innovation EU

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. Do Pivots Matter? Inc.com What really defines a pivot and how they can impact your business model.

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HOW ENTREPRENEURS CAN UTILISE SOFTWARE

ImagineNation

Software development and maintenance comes at a price. Reduce Costs. Regardless of whether you’re running a multinational corporation or a regional SME with clients in Sydney or Melbourne, operational costs must be considered. Costs don’t stay on the ground level.

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work – the Minimal Viable Product

Steve Blank

Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. This methodology improved on waterfall by building software iteratively and involving the customer. The National Science Foundation described the Lean LaunchPad class as the scientific method for entrepreneurship.).

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

My advice is to think carefully about which areas of your operation to outsource and focus on outsourcing areas that have a low value to your organisation as well as a low value to any future outsourcer who may, in years to come, decide to become your competition.

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How to Set Up a Corporate Innovation Outpost That Works

Corporate Innovation

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. This is the fourth in a series about corporate innovation co-authored with Steve Blank. Before moving to Stage 3, the Innovation Outpost must answer these 5 questions: Do we have corporate buy-in to build a product?

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How to Set Up a Corporate Innovation Outpost That Works

Corporate Innovation

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. This is the fourth in a series about corporate innovation co-authored with Steve Blank. Before moving to Stage 3, the Innovation Outpost must answer these 5 questions: Do we have corporate buy-in to build a product?

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The Root Cause for Innovation Theater and How to Avoid It

Leanstack

If you simply incentivize software developers to write more lines of code, more lines of code get written, but performance and quality suffer. If you simply incentivize salespeople to close accounts, magically accounts close usually towards the end of the month. Thankfully, we have done away with many of these policies.

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