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What Executives Should Know About Digital Currencies

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Here a car company putting Bitcoin on its balance sheet, there a bank opening a branch in the Metaverse; here venture funds plowing money into Web3, there […]. The post What Executives Should Know About Digital Currencies appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021.

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Something Ventured

CEO Blog

I did not interview for Brainlogic that ended up on Collaborative Innovation. Wednesday night I attended a Cinemonde screening of "Something Ventured - Risk, Reward, and the Original Venture Capitalists" (not to be confused by the autobiography on CM Woodhouse called Something Ventured ) It is a great documentary film.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. innovative alternatives. Will lower interest rates make venture capital a more appealing option?

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Can a Big Company Innovate Like a Start-Up?

Harvard Business Review

When Google announced that co-founder Larry Page was replacing Eric Schmidt as CEO, the official reason was to "streamline decision making" at the top. Within this context, people in big companies tend to focus more on protecting and preserving their existing businesses than on breakthrough innovations that might cannibalize or destroy them.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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How Watson Changed IBM

Harvard Business Review

They knew the answer was not by relying on traditional internal processes and practices for R&D and innovation. IBM, a company with a long and successful tradition of internally-focused R&D activities, is adapting to this new world of creating platforms and enabling open innovation.

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A New CEO's Reinvention Road Map

Harvard Business Review

But technology innovation is a powerful draw and, in business, when an opportunity arises, there is no shortage of players getting into the game. We now face new competition from Silicon Valley start-ups with venture funding and a great idea, as well as from mature industrial and technology powerhouses from the Fortune 500.

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