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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation (Part 5): Crucial Lessons to Strengthen CVC Success

Corporate Innovation

It is only natural to consider whether the cohort of CVCs established during the last five years will have more staying power than the dot-com CVC group, many of which closed down during the economic downturn of 2001-2004. BASF, SAP, Siemens, Dow and Qualcomm all incorporate the CVC organization in the overall innovation strategy.

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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation (Part 5): Crucial Lessons to Strengthen CVC Success

Corporate Innovation

It is only natural to consider whether the cohort of CVCs established during the last five years will have more staying power than the dot-com CVC group, many of which closed down during the economic downturn of 2001-2004. BASF, SAP, Siemens, Dow and Qualcomm all incorporate the CVC organization in the overall innovation strategy.

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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation (Part 5): Crucial Lessons to Strengthen CVC Success

Corporate Innovation

It is only natural to consider whether the cohort of CVCs established during the last five years will have more staying power than the dot-com CVC group, many of which closed down during the economic downturn of 2001-2004. BASF, SAP, Siemens, Dow and Qualcomm all incorporate the CVC organization in the overall innovation strategy.

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Act Like a Leader Before You Are One

Harvard Business Review

Mike Subelsky, the co-founder and CTO at Staq, a tech start-up that makes software for digital advertising companies, spent most of his early career in roles with lots of responsibility, but not much authority. "I He also looked for opportunities to exercise leadership outside of the office. It was a great laboratory," he says. "It

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

When new CTO Prakash Khot arrived from Salesforce, he shifted the company towards continuous delivery, testing changes more frequently and on smaller audiences. When Facebook was founded in 2004, the company embraced the agile software delivery methodology to ensure that code was shipped as quickly as possible.

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