Companies don’t Innovate, People do… So, Watch how you Hire!

By Guest Author Marylene Delbourg-Delphis

Almost every company pledges to value innovation, a topic that lends itself to all sorts of grand planning strategies and methodologies as well as lyrical musings. Yet to actually be able to deliver on innovation goals, organizations must often get back to earth, i.e. look closely at the multiple aspects of the management of the company’s human infrastructure, and focus on the most foundational of them: the way we hire. In her new book, Everybody Wants to Love Their Job: Rebuilding Trust and Culture, Marylene Delbourg-Delphis invites executives to pay attention to their company’s recruiting practices—and more specifically to two of the key principles that prepare companies for continuous inventiveness, hiring employees for their potential rather than only their current skills, and hiring people for the company as a whole rather than for a manager.  >>>

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What Makes Startups Creativity Tanks?

By Guest Author Marylene Delbourg-Delphis

Peter Cappelli, Professor of Management at Wharton School and Director of the Wharton’s Center for Human Resources endorsed Marylene Delbourg-Delphis’ book Everybody Wants to Love Their Job: Rebuilding Trust and Culture, saying “The energizing culture of the start-up world can be imported to even the biggest organizations. A powerful case for bringing the human element back into management.”

Startups are inspirational for many reasons. The “human element” is definitely one of them. >>>

NetApp Excellerator Startups Awarded Scholarships to the 1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator

The One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) global virtual accelerator is yet another benefit granted to NetApp startups through a partnership between the two companies. For the second time this year, NetApp has awarded six startups one-year scholarships to the 1Mby1M Premium program, offering them the advantages of access to the 1Mby1M online curriculum, weekly online mentoring sessions and an international network of investors, potential customers, channel partners, and more.

The participating startups include:

CloudOptimo – Co-founded by Vaibhav Kamble and Tushar Chakote, CloudOptimo’s platform helps to reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of a cloud infrastructure up to 80% using Cloud Provider’s excess capacity.

FirstHive – Founded by CEO Aditya Bhamidipaty, FirstHive is a Customer Data Platform that builds Unique Customer Identities by aggregating data from across all sources of customer interactions and customer transactions.

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EIT Health Partners with 1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator to Train More Than 100 European Entrepreneurs

Digital Health Semifinalists of the European Health Catapult have been awarded one-year scholarships to the One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) global virtual accelerator thanks to a new partnership with EIT Health. In addition to the 15 scholarships to the 1Mby1M Premium program, EIT Health will also fund scholarships to 1Mby1M Basic for an additional 100 promising digital start-ups.

Sramana Mitra, Founder of 1Mby1M, announced the winners during the Semifinals, held on October 10 in Erlangen, Germany. You can listen to her keynote address, AI Powered Digital Health IS The Next Big Thing, here:

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Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Anita Sands, Board Member of ServiceNow and Symantec (Part 1)

In this interview, Anita Sands discusses Corporate Innovation as it pertains to large enterprises experiencing disruptive change as well as some experiencing hyper growth. She has perspective on both, and generously shares her thoughts.

Sramana Mitra: Anita, you have spent the first part of your career being a physicist. That’s a really interesting training ground for someone who went on to be in the innovation ecosystem. Would you actually tell me a few things about your journey as a physicist and how that ties into where you are today in the innovation ecosystem?

Anita Sands: As you rightly said, I started as a physicist. My undergraduate was in Physics and Applied Mathematics. My Ph.D. >>>

195th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Anita Sands, Board Member, ServiceNow and Symantec, On Corporate Innovation

Anita Sands, Board Director at Symantec and ServiceNow, talks about corporate innovation as it pertains to large enterprises experiencing disruptive change, as well as some experiencing hyper growth. Anita has perspective on both, and generously shares her thoughts.

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5 Thought Leaders Discuss Corporate Innovation in Podcasts

For several years, I’ve been working with some corporate partners that want their whole organization to have at least an opportunity to participate in innovation. Part of this is driven by the fact that today, the words innovation and entrepreneurship are so catchy and so pervasive in corporate societies that part of the job attractiveness is dependent on how much people can participate in different types innovation, incubation, or intrapreneurship programs. Many companies want to provide opportunities for their employees to apply themselves in this direction. If everybody is submitting ideas, however, a process and a framework are needed to collect and vet those ideas. Which ideas get developed further? Which ones get resources? Have a listen to my recent conversations on corporate innovation strategies with the thought leaders of some major corporations shared as 30-minute podcasts.

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What is the Incubator-In-A-Box?

Here Sramana Mitra explains our Incubator-In-A-Box (IIAB) program for which we’re seeing very significant interest right now. IIAB is our core partnership platform.

Roundtable Recap: April 26 – How to Partner with the Incubator-In-A-Box

During this week’s roundtable, we started off with a segment on our Incubator-In-A-Box (IIAB) program for which we’re seeing very significant interest right now. Below are a few links we shared with the audience today for further exploration. IIAB is our core partnership platform.

Incubator-In-A-Box for Internal Innovation and Intrapreneurship
Corporate Innovation Discussion with Paolo Juvara, Oracle
Incubator-In-A-Box for Platform Vendors
Incubator-In-A-Box for Governments
Delaware Economic Development Office (DEDO) Partners With 1Mby1M
Economic Development Discussion with Ken Anderson, Delaware Economic Development Office
Incubator-In-A-Box for Accelerators
Scholarships to 1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Awarded to NetApp Startups

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395th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Paolo Juvara, Oracle, On Corporate Innovation

Paolo Juvara is Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Lab. Oracle has been a partner of 1Mby1M since 2013 and has built its internal innovation program on the 1Mby1M Incubator-in-a-Box platform. In this session, Paolo and I discuss the secrets of the success of the program. A unique window into corporate innovation thought leadership.

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