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How Innovation Awards Can Fuel Business Growth

IdeaScale

Wolters Kluwe r is a global provider of information, software solutions and services for professionals: in the healthcare, tax, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and regulatory sectors. This is a company-wide competition encouraging the development and implementation of innovative solutions. IS: How do you select your winners?

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Competition aside, both face opposing physical forces that must be overcome to win. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput.

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What is Open Innovation? Benefits & Best Practices

Qmarkets

The term was popularized by Henry Chesbrough in his 2003 book “ Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology “ Traditionally, companies relied on internal research and development (R&D) to innovate and bring new products to market. What are the Benefits of Open Innovation?

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Business model creation and innovation in China: not just copycats.

The BMI Lab Blog

The American e-commerce giant acquired EachNet in 2003 for USD 180 million, with a willingness to step into the enormous Chinese market. At the same time, in 2003-2004, Alibaba invested USD 52 million to enter the C2C market in China through its service, Taobao.com. Additionally, Tencent is playing globally.

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Open Innovation: Convincing the Decision Makers

eZassi

This is understandable, especially since the term “open innovation” only became a part of the corporate lexicon around 2003. Essentially, they didn’t trust that open innovation software was advanced enough to protect their interests. In our experience, many companies are resistant to innovation because they have a fear of the unknown.

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“Embrace Open Innovation or be Destroyed by it…” – A Case Study on Lego & Bagels

Qmarkets

While the term Open Innovation was coined in 2003, in a book of the same name by Henry Chesbrough, its conceptual origins are more difficult to trace. In the 1990s the company came close to bankruptcy due to the rise of digital entertainment such as video games; they needed to find new ways of exciting their customers.

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“Embrace Open Innovation or be Destroyed by it…” – A Case Study on Lego & Bagels

Qmarkets

While the term Open Innovation was coined in 2003, in a book of the same name by Henry Chesbrough, its conceptual origins are more difficult to trace. In the 1990s the company came close to bankruptcy due to the rise of digital entertainment such as video games; they needed to find new ways of exciting their customers.