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How the GSAs 10X Program Advances Government Innovation

IdeaScale

Overview : Founded in 2017 off of a popular crowdsourcing initiative, the Government Services Administration (GSA)’s 10X program internally crowdsources ideas to design new approaches and launch new programs. The General Services Administration, or GSA, has the job of ensuring government employees have what they need to do their jobs.

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Mastering the Game: Corporate Executives and the Art of Startup Investment

Leapfrogging

CVC units often focus on securing a competitive advantage by investing in startups with innovative technologies or business models that align with the corporation’s strategic goals. By engaging with and investing in startups, companies can gain insights into emerging technologies, trends, and business practices.

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Accelerating Sustainable Energy Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

For me, the weekend focus was specifically on the Energy Transition, following on from their recent Davos event and the series of reports and whitepapers co-sponsored with different organizations built up over many years. The Energy Industry can be deemed as a laggard in adoption along the five stages of technology adoption.

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Overwhelmed, underwhelmed at the Web Summit, Lisbon

Paul Hobcraft

I am taking the opportunity to review the Web Summit, held in Lisbon last week of 5th (evening) to 8th November 2018. The Web Summit, originally Dublin Web Summit, is a technology conference held annually since 2009. I quickly gathered it was best to eat well before you came to this event and just keep “walking the halls”.

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Driving Success: Harnessing the Power of the Startup Ecosystem

Leapfrogging

This ecosystem encompasses a wide array of participants including entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, educational institutions, research organizations, and government entities. These young companies thrive on adaptability, a drive for growth, and often, a technology-based solution that disrupts existing markets or creates new ones.

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Governance Charter for Managing New Product Investments

Huub Rutten

One level lower in the hierarchy Emily faces in fact the same challenge, she cannot enforce results, she has to coordinate and deal with unexpected events, lack of resources. Engineering can always call on technical problems, unforeseen conditions and events and therefore lack of critical resources, to justify delay and scope changes.

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Governance Charter for Managing New Product Investments

Huub Rutten

One level lower in the hierarchy Emily faces in fact the same challenge, she cannot enforce results, she has to coordinate and deal with unexpected events, lack of resources. Engineering can always call on technical problems, unforeseen conditions and events and therefore lack of critical resources, to justify delay and scope changes.