2011 Consultative IPO Operations 
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 18, 2014
Unlike a Fortune 500 company that can spend tens of millions of dollars on external consultants to help implement such a system, this company was stingy with its IT dollars. However, cash flow from operations had shifted from positive to negative, the company’s cash pile was dwindling, and the new product would demand R&D investment.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 27, 2017
In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. In fact, in 2011 BMW had also founded a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, called BMW iVentures, but it exclusively invested in service startups.
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