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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

The two managers secured buy-in from top BMW R&D executives to launch such a unit, and they received top-management approval for the unit in July 2014.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

We were competing with the cool, Silicon Valley tech companies, yet at the same time we needed to find people who would fit in GE’s culture.” ” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

Many of the updates are incremental improvements based on the data collected every time someone uses the application, and some are bigger changes to the experience resulting from insights gained during direct observation of users doing their jobs. The new approach is working. Rich Products: Achieving Customer Intimacy through Reengineering.

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Five Coaching Tips to Help Business Process Management Leaders Succeed

Strategy Driven

Reduce time to market for this product). Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Provide Support During the Charter Meeting – During the Charter meeting see if the Process Owner can easily articulate the improvement targets and vision. and then turn them into improvement targets (e.g, All rights reserved.

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