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Startup Coach Shares The Biggest Mistake Founders Make When Scaling Up
In an overcrowded market, startups need to stand out more than ever before. A bright idea will no longer carry a company; it's all about execution. To learn how to scale up — and what mistakes to...
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Dr Pepper's Product Genius Explains How New Soda Flavors Are Created
Dr. David Thomas is a flavor genius. Thomas is the executive vice president of research and development at Dr Pepper Snapple Group, and he's in charge of creating the next big-time products for the...
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America Is Not The Entrepreneurial Capital Of The World
America's entrepreneurial streak as one of the things that, theoretically, is supposed to make us exceptional as a country. At least it is if you listen to most politicians. But how do we actually...
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Blame Executives, Not Engineers, If A Company Isn't Innovative
McKinsey recently asked executives how they continually generate ideas to fight off competition from startups and other disruptors. They surveyed almost 3000 executives from a broad range of regions,...
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15 Lessons Everyone Learns At Business School
If you attend business school, you can expect to read a lot of case studies. Professors love them because they offer real-world examples of why businesses succeed and fail. There are some classic...
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Obama Is Regulating The Tech Industry Way Too Much Because He Believes He...
For decades, Silicon Valley has been a mecca for dreamers. People come to the Valley to turn science fiction into reality in ways that transform consumers’ lives. Turn-by-turn directions on our...
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Here Are The 'Tricks' Fiscal Conservatives Use When They Promise To Cut Taxes...
The United States is famous for its ability to innovate. Aspiring fiscal conservatives around the world thus might be interested in learning four tricks that American politicians commonly use when...
View ArticleWhy Innovation Through Acquisition Is Such A Darn Good Idea
A critical component of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the U.S. is the mergers and acquisitions market. I’ve sifted through a number of studies and estimates, and it’s safe to say that the vast...
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Inequality Doesn't Actually Hurt Economic Growth
Economist Robert Gordon recently wrote a paper in which he asked the provocative question, “Is U.S. economic growth over?” And he identifies income inequality as one of “headwinds” facing the...
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Former Google China Chief Kai Fu Lee: China CAN Lead In Innovation
A common complaint about China is that while it may be great at copying products (and sometimes not even so great at that), it will never be a real innovator and develop new products. But Kai Fu Lee,...
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The 10 Most Innovative Companies In The World
Booz & Co. just came out with its annual ranking of the world's 1000 biggest R&D spenders, which includes a survey of more than 700 senior R&D executives asking them what companies are the...
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The 20 Biggest Corporate R&D Spenders In The World
Every year management consulting Booz & Co. puts together a comprehensive report on the world's 1000 biggest spenders on research and development, and the connection between that spending and...
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Starbucks Has A Brilliant Strategy For Dominating The Chinese Market (SBUX)
Starbucks has been aggressive about changing when it enters new markets. It recently moved to a structure where regional presidents are almost CEOs of their own companies, because they better...
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Why It's A Miracle That Any Medicine Gets Approved
We recently published a Booz & Co. list of the world's biggest spenders on R&D. There were 8 pharmaceutical companies in the top 20 spenders and 4 in the top 10, but none at all in the list of...
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Most Companies Think They’re Horrible At Bringing Ideas To Market
This year's Booz & Co. report on the world's largest R&D spenders focused on the "front end" of innovation. This is essentially the very beginning of the process, or the idea creation phase....
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How Apple, Samsung, And Google Take Different Approaches To Innovation
When people think of the most innovative companies, they think of ones that are coming out with brand new and amazing technology. The push for self driving cars or augmented reality glasses can be a...
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Why Startups Will Keep Disrupting Big Companies
One of the biggest takeaways from Booz & Co's Innovation 1000 report is that idea conversion, moving from an idea to a product has a huge impact on performance. Surprisingly, most companies think...
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Why You Should Give Your Business Plan To Your Most Skeptical Friend
The first step to launching a startup is creating a business plan. Whether it's used to pitch investors or just as a roadmap, the best plans are flexible and have weighed all the inherent risks....
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TED Thinks These 21 Young Innovators Are Going To Change The World
TED, a global nonprofit devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading" will focus its February 2013 conference on "The Young, The Wise, And The Undiscovered." Out of more than a thousand applicants, they've...
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Companies Are Telling Employees What NOT To Do On Twitter
When I wrote my book, The 2020 Workplace, in 2010, I made a prediction some considered bold: that by the year 2020, social media training in the workplace would be as common as ethics and diversity...
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