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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

But in my research, and in conversations with hardware entrepreneurs throughout the country, I have noticed several developments that have put manufacturing start-up activity on a faster, more commercial track. By contrast, the emergence of new cloud-enabled, incubator-supported manufacturing startups could widen the aperture.

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Engaging Medical Specialists in Improving Health Care Value

Harvard Business Review

But, working with the DPIs, the medical management team developed metrics relevant to specialists. For some departments, the medical management team worked with the DPI to develop new metrics that made the department accountable for improving care in specific ways. Developing a new pathway for patients admitted for hip replacements.

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How an Ecosystem Mindset Can Help People and Organizations Succeed

Harvard Business Review

In December 2013 he was an up-and-coming young San Francisco entrepreneur and CEO of an incubator, when he posted an offhand comment on Facebook about homelessness in his city. GE and GE Ventures, for example, actively seek and develop channels rather than simply looking for budding new companies to invest in.

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The Reality of What Makes Silicon Valley Tick

Harvard Business Review

embarked on a quest to develop the ultimate patch to the nasty bugs of humanity." Noisebridge photo by Dylan Hendricks, 2013. Every day brings a fresh horde of visitors — business executives, overseas dignitaries, researchers, and journalists — trying to discover what makes Silicon Valley tick.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

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If it’s a Kickstarter kind of situation, they may be funding, actually, the development of the product before you’ve even put pen to paper. If it was, maybe you bring them into your incubator, work with them more directly, see if you can turn that into a product or service idea. What did they come up with? Was it something interesting?

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

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Want to Do Corporate Innovation Right? Go Inside Google Brain

Harvard Business Review

That passion has continued and Google invests billions of dollars every year on research and development. An internal incubator. “The time we spent incubating in Google X was really essential,” Corrado says. ” The result of that incubation period was an actual product. A tight feedback loop.