Innovation through acquisition at General Mills
Innovation through acquisition and creation of its own venture capital fund is setting General Mills up for success in the future.
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3D-Printing: A Nuclear weapon for startups willing to disrupt the vending machine business.
3D-Printing represents a great opportunity for vending machine startups to innovate through an easier iteration process, enabling the whole industry to reinvent the customer experience.
The Unilever Foundry 鈥� bringing innovation to 400 brands, under one roof
Can a 90-year old company learn to behave like a start-up? Slow growth, ever-changing consumer tastes and the rise of digitally native upstarts are threatening the traditional consumer-packaged goods industry. Unilever鈥檚 significant investment in open innovation intends to challenge this trend by collaborating with start-ups to infuse new ideas and practices into the company.
Chez Glossier: How the Millennial Beauty Brand Built a Community Prime for Collaborative Innovation
On a mission to democratize beauty, cult makeup and skincare brand Glossier leverages their Into The Gloss blog, social media pages, and Glossier.com platforms to crowdsource product ideas from a community of highly loyal beauty lovers – yet maintains the final say.
A trillion-dollar industry is reinventing itself; Damco is leading the way
The trillion-dollar freight forwarding industry is undergoing the most drastic operational changes it鈥檚 ever seen as a result of digitalization.
Crowdsourcing Alpha: Can Quantopian Re-invent the Hedge Fund?
FinTech startup bets big on the “wisdom of the crowds” in systematic investing