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How Innovation Is Completely Different in Established Organizations than in Startups

Leading Blog

W E LIVE IN the age of the entrepreneur. Continuous optimization, both on the operational side and the customer side, is good and important -- in the short term. They require great technological conversions. But technology may, in fact, be a minor part of the task. In 2018 alone, 53 unicorns were added to the list.

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America’s Transportation Infrastructure Needs Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Speed bumps stem from a classic tension between entrepreneurs who found companies or change them and established organizations, whether industry incumbents or government entities. In the case of the FAA and mobile technology, the slow-moving agency is trying its best to be nimbler. On the roads, new technology is growing in importance.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Congressional Hearings.

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The Barriers Big Companies Face When They Try to Act Like Lean Startups

Harvard Business Review

.” And yet the lean startup methodology, born in Silicon Valley as a way for startups to tune in to customer needs with limited resources, has been gaining major momentum inside big companies like General Electric, Alaska Airlines, Telefonica, 3M, and W.L. ’ Sometimes you need to be reminded of that.”

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The Problem of Bolt-On Acquisitions in a Digital World

Harvard Business Review

It might be an earnings boost, where the post-acquisition company continues to operate independently while increasing the value of the parent company. At an airline, one group handles reservations, another is in charge of the website, another handles your miles, and yet another is responsible for customer complaints.

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Don't Let the Minimum Win Over the Viable

Harvard Business Review

As Ries writes, some entrepreneurs hear "minimum viable" product as "smallest imaginable" product. Sometimes, entrepreneurs miss a key opportunity to establish market differentiation by interpreting the "minimum" component of an MVP to mean "nothing challenging." Some are core to the vision, while others are educated guesses.

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