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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. ScaleUps, and those that invest in them, face the next-level challenge of growing revenue at scale; that is, exponentially relative to expenditures in capital, people, and technology. Of course, not all friction is bad.

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3 Dimensions of Innovation: the 23 Capabilities your company needs to succeed

Idea to Value

And companies regularly boast about how they are spending millions (and sometimes billions) of dollars into research & development to come up with innovative new offerings. Delivery: A team of people who have the ability to take rough ideas and develop them into a customer-facing innovation.

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Getting The Fundamentals Right

Innov8rs

We dive into getting the fundamentals right during this month’s Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management. Strategy is often made by elite teams and thus can be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces. Open Strategy.

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How SAY San Diego is Using Lean Innovation to Create Real Change

Moves the Needle

Co-Authored by Heather Hiscox and Amelia Klawon Get the full case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. Board members and executive teams can also have significant power. Innovation in the social impact sector can seem intimidating and unreachable.

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What is Digital Transformation in Business and Why is it Important?

Moves the Needle

Digital Transformation (also known as “DX”) is the phenomenon that virtually all companies are incorporating digital technology at some level. In fact, it has been around since the 1990s, when technology started to become commonplace in businesses, and email and the Internet emerged as ubiquitous productivity tools.

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Innovation 101: A Municipality’s Guide to Working with the Startup Community

CREATORS

The city’s challenge was simple, they needed to develop a platform that would simplify the process to become a foster parent. It’s cases like this that show how governments, faced with organizational limits and a risk-averse culture, have much to gain from their more flexible counterparts in the private sector.

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Shadow IT Done Right

Taivara

by Taivara , Technology Innovation. There is always the fear of creating a new product or digital offering that cannot one day be supported by an internal IT team. Unfamiliar Tech Stacks. One reason could be that the external firm you hired built the project on a tech-stack that the internal team is not familiar with.