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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Its market cap is over $2 trillion. In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. By 2019, Microsoft’s market capitalization edged past the $1 trillion mark, making it the world’s most valuable company. By 2023, its market cap reached $2.5

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Leading in a New Direction - 3 Techniques for Thinking up New Business Ideas

Great Leadership By Dan

A = Adapt – How about adapting the successful drive-through services that the fast food companies offer to the fast-casual market? P = Put to Other Uses – use the restaurant as a market research center. Incubation’ is more than just ‘sleeping on it’. M = Magnify – magnify one aspect. Or vegetarian or even vegan?

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N2Growth Helps Businesses Combine Strategy & Innovation for a Consumer-First Approach to Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing. The six I’s stand for individual, innovation, information, incubation, intelligence, and investment. “We Next, the ideas are incubated.

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Accelerators Need To Do More To Foster Connections

The Horizons Tracker

Incubators and accelerators have become highly pervasive around the world, as countries seek to cultivate the kind of innovations that drive economic growth. The research examined 56,000 patents granted between 1969 and 2012 from American universities with incubator programs. Making connections.

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Obratori, one-stop shopping for startups: incubation services, and funding

Innovation Excellence

There are some Startups Studios on the market, but OBRATORI differs from them as being a Corporate Startups Studio (more similar to Kamet by Axa): it was created by L’OCCITANE Group to let external startups soar.

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"We've got to grow together." the quote of the evening!

Jason Womack

During our conversation, he told me about the business incubator program at Hannah Grimes , here in Keene, NH. With today's movement to "think global and act local," or to work and live as a "local-vore," it is interesting to think that in those days way back then, EVERY one supported local - local government, local education, local markets.

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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

If the cream isn't allowed to rise to the top it will go somewhere else…real leaders don't incubate well. " Ron [link] mikemyatt Hi Ron: Thanks for the comment. If an organization doesn't recognize and engage those with leadership potential, those high potentials are likely to end-up working for the competition.