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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput. Of course, not all friction is bad. What does it mean in a business context?

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The Need for Digital Innovation Platforms

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation is struggling to really perform and unleash breakthrough products due to many ‘inbuilt’ inhibitors. Embedded software is becoming more important in value than the physical product. Embedded software is becoming essential within products; from shoes, household appliances, cars, travel etc.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

In these early stages of product development, it can sometimes seem like all of the good ideas have already been taken. When you apply this train of thought to innovation, it becomes apparent that some of the most successful products and services in human history were developed by recycling existing ideas. Take the iPod for example.

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Soldiers & Hessians, Ronin & Ninja

Boxes and Arrows

Having worked as a consultant, at an agency and in-house, I’ve observed that the organizational location and economics of the user experience team can make or break them. When should you bring in an outside team, and when should you hire an individual employee? How to figure out the right team for a new project?

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10 things to keep in mind while conducting a hackathon

hackerearth

These hackathons can be around new challenges, letting employees collaboratively brainstorm and develop ideas in a wide range of niche verticals. These ideas could range from developing new products and services to projects on workplace design or improvement of staff relations. Hackathon attendance varies due to seasonality.

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10 things to keep in mind while conducting a hackathon

hackerearth

These hackathons can be around new challenges, letting employees collaboratively brainstorm and develop ideas in a wide range of niche verticals. These ideas could range from developing new products and services to projects on workplace design or improvement of staff relations. Hackathon attendance varies due to seasonality.

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10 things to keep in mind while conducting a hackathon

hackerearth

These hackathons can be around new challenges, letting employees collaboratively brainstorm and develop ideas in a wide range of niche verticals. These ideas could range from developing new products and services to projects on workplace design or improvement of staff relations. Hackathon attendance varies due to seasonality.