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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Of course, not all friction is bad. Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation. They are real.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Shane, 2003). Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? According to Bird (1995) there is no use in developing a model for entrepreneurship competencies without considering that these competencies should be learnable. The elements of language curriculum: A systematic approach to program development. Busenitz, L.

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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

But the bad news is that they have to learn a new improvement approach — one that can conflict with others that have worked in the past. In 2009, Grainger's senior management team decided to reflect on their history with improvement initiatives before deploying a Lean-based continuous improvement system.

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We Survived in Homebuilding by Putting People First

Harvard Business Review

At the peak of the North Texas housing market in 2003, my company Grand Homes sold more than a thousand homes. And as for us, we had a reputation for poor customer service and dated floorplans. We launched a Culture Committee to help address the specific, emergency needs of our team. Everyone in the industry felt the impact.