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GovTech: From Great Challenges to Great Opportunities

CREATORS

Inflexibility of processes, bureaucracy, complicated and abundant regulation as well as slow adoption of new solutions or technology are common themes around the GovTech world. We have a national legislation on public procurement that makes it difficult to purchase technological solutions, especially those offered by startups.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Things will not stay the same at GE.”. So what happened?

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Powering Corporate Innovation in Finance: Industry Insights

Qmarkets

Fintech startups are changing the face of finance with new technologies that are making banking easier, faster, and more intuitive. Providers such as Klarna and Afterpay are joined by countless others offering similar services, and some are even offering their technology as a white-label service to retailers.