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Porter’s Diamond Model in Business Strategy

Leapfrogging

The Four Key Factors in Porters Diamond Model: Factor Conditions The availability of critical resources such as labor, capital, infrastructure, and technology. Chance Events Unpredictable events such as technological breakthroughs or global crises that impact industries. What level of technological development and R&D exists?

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Hackathon Survival Guide: What You Need To Know Going Into A Hackathon

hackerearth

Events like these are so important for developers, whether you are a beginner or an advanced software engineer, hackathons are the great equalizer and skill democratizer. The lessons you gain, both in software development, entrepreneurship, and in working as a team will pay dividends down the road.

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How to Start Exploring in the Core | Ep. 8

Moves the Needle

The trap that many corporations fall into is the belief that digital transformation is mostly a technological thing. They think that they can hire a bunch of software engineers or outsource to development companies and that’ll solve their digital transformation woes.

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How Bad Leadership Spurs Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

But there is one upside to incompetent management: by failing to attend to their employees' ideas, and continuing to demoralize their staff, bad leaders accidentally stimulate entrepreneurship. Therefore, bad leadership — or, if you prefer, incompetent management — is a major source of entrepreneurship. but elsewhere.

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How Startup “Joiners” Are (and Aren’t) Like Founders

Harvard Business Review

Michael Roach of Cornell and Henry Sauermann of the Georgia Institute of Technology surveyed over 4,000 U.S. PhD students are of particular interest for entrepreneurship researchers because they’re disproportionately likely to be involved in the founding of high-growth firms in science and technology.). (PhD

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The Best Entrepreneurs Think Globally, Not Just Digitally

Harvard Business Review

This globality phenomenon is itself surprisingly global: the Berlin and Beijing startup scenes, for example, appear almost as technologically transnational as Boston’s and the Bay Area’s. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust. Set your company up for success.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.