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

Harvard Business Review

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Harnessing Big Potential While Minimizing Risk.

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The Biggest Challenges of Data-Driven Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

In fact, IoT is at the peak of Gartner’s 2015 hype cycle, which suggests the next phase will be disillusionment, and it will be years before we see real productivity gains. But to get beyond the hype, managers need to understand some underlying challenges and paradigm shifts.