Mills Scofield

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Someone = Us!

Mills Scofield

He reinvented the entire business model and the company is growing exponentially. What was a ‘job shop’ is now a high-tech and biomedical design and engineering company with rapid prototyping/additive manufacturing up to full-scale injection molding capabilities. What drove this level of risk?

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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

Their business model is unique and there are so many lessons for our businesses and organizations from their story. He was an experienced forestry engineer who had managed a number of different cacao and coffee projects in the region. Tyler Gage and Dan MacCombie are the founders of one of my favorite startups ever, Runa.

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Light the Fire and Clear the Path

Mills Scofield

Computer science and engineering students caught the spark, developing tools to track and repair equipment so it could be up and running to save and heal lives. MED tried to grow into other emerging markets, but no viable business model emerged.

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Light the Fire and Clear the Path

Mills Scofield

Computer science and engineering students caught the spark, developing tools to track and repair equipment so it could be up and running to save and heal lives. MED tried to grow into other emerging markets, but no viable business model emerged.

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Lessons From BIF-7

Mills Scofield

What I see is the opposite – incredible innovation in products, services, processes and business models. That’s what makes the annual BIF conference so important: 30 plus stories of amazing, cool, disruptive, transformative innovation models. It’s just not in the mainstream media.

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