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Category: Intrapreneurship

Intrapreneurs are like an immune system for companies. They detect disruptions and innovations coming from outside that could endanger the organization and react to it. They make companies more resilient. An intrapreneur is a person within a corporation who takes or is given the freedom and resources to initiate projects, business ventures, and more. They …

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Category: Culture, Design, Self-driving

Is design important for innovation, and if not always, when is it not? A conversation about me spotting the Google self-driving mini-car for the first time in the wild lead to discussion about the right priorities and the importance of design for innovation. Worst car design ever … This was the gut reaction of one …

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Category: Self-driving

Today, I saw the future happening right now. There has been so much talk about the risks and dangers of autonomous cars, mostly from people who have never seen one live, but have an opinion. And then I drive down in Mountain View / Palo Alto along the San Antonio Road and right there is …

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Category: Culture

When I came to the Silicon Valley in 2001, I was this over-confident PhD from Austria, having worked in Germany, and just not having an all too positive view on the knowledge of my US colleagues. I was dismissive, negative, and just not receptive of input.Honestly, what can they teach me? Until one colleague just …

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