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corporate venturing Resources | BNET - 0 views

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  • Time for firms to take new view of corporate venturing, BUSINESS TIMES Business Times Malaysia 07-05-2001 THE new economy has made it necessary to see corporate venturing in a new light, according to Accenture Business Launch Center. Corporate venturing is investing and leveraging on internal and external asse Business Times...
  • Corporate Venturing in Denmark This paper argues that Corporate Venturing CV, i.e. activities where an existing firm actively invest in a new start-up, is a much more widespread phenomenon in Denmark than official sources claim. In addition to large CV oriented corporations such as NKT and B&O, many medium sized firms and even quite...
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  • Corporate Venturing Performance: An Investigation Into the Applicability of Venture Capital Models This paper reports a study that examined this assertion more directly through surveying 95 corporate venture units across 3 continents (Europe, South East Asia and North America) and examining the association between their organizational structures, management practices and investment practices, and multiple measures of venture unit performance. Regression analyses found...
  • In Search of Corporate Renewal - Focus on Corporate Venturing In today's rapidly changing business environment established companies venture to sustain growth and corporate renewal. But developing new business from scratch takes time. Thus companies find it hard to justify investments in venturing: when measured by financial terms only, the track record of corporate venturing is poor. This paper drafts...
  • Corporate Venturing: Gold Mining or Fool's Gold? This paper begins with a discussion of corporate venturing basics including the rationale for initiating a corporate venture group, a comparison to traditional venture capital firms, and the many approaches to corporate venturing. Next there is an in depth discussion of the current corporate venture landscape including examples of successful...
  • External Corporate Venturing - Exploration and Exploitation External corporate venturing, which is new business creation activity through organizational modes such as corporate venture capital, alliances, acquisitions, or spin offs has received relatively scant attention in the corporate entrepreneurship literature. Based on seven in-depth case studies of large European and U.S. firms in the information and communication technology...
  • Corporate Venturing Modes and Their Impact on Corporate Learning Learning and increased innovation are often mentioned as some of the key benefits from corporate venturing for corporations. However, little research exists that would analyze whether there are systematic differences in learning outcomes across different governance modes. This paper systematically analyzes how the governance choice between different external corporate venturing...
  • Selection in Corporate Venturing This paper argues that the ability to select more profitable ventures while at the same time avoid selecting away promising ventures is dependent on not only the choice of selection strategies but increasingly on the corporate venture firms' selection capacity. This capacity is largely a function of the committed participation...
  • Corporate Venturing - The Rolls-Royce Model Rolls-Royce had previously become involved in Corporate Venturing in the late 80s and early 90s with what many might view as some success. With a dedicated team of three or four they had achieved a revenue from licensing of several million Pounds a year. However, in the bearish mood of...
  • Corporate Venturing The purpose of this paper is to comment on the challenges that Corporations find when deciding to setup an equity investment arm: Corporate Ventures CVs. This paper will focus on three different challenges, covering the reasons why Corporations decide initiate CVs, the main structural differences between CVs and Venture Capital...
  • Managing Innovation Through Corporate Venturing Innovation involves applying creative ideas to find solutions to organizational problems. It enables organizations to overhaul their systems and processes and increase the quality of their products. However, the paper argues that a certain degree of commercialization is required to successfully use innovation for better results. A related model is...
  • Adventures In Corporate Venturing From the executive summary: ‘Companies that are successful in developing new ventures have a clearly articulated portfolio management strategy covering five areas: type of business opportunity, capital investment parameters, degree of operational involvement, links with core businesses, and other such objectives.’ The companies prefer creating a separate subsidiary because the...
  • Corporate Venturing? Make Sure its Cautious Venturing Working with corporate venturers can provide venture capital and private equity firms with a rich source of investment opportunities. Corporate venturing can entail different things, depending on the corporate in question. A question remains in the minds of many VC investors: is the reduction in operational and competitive risk merely...
  • Internal Corporate Venturing Cycles: A Nagging Strategic Leadership Challenge Thirty years of systematic study reveal that many major corporations experience a strange cyclicality in their Internal Corporate Venturing ICV activity: Periods of intense activity are followed by periods of shutting down such activities only to be followed by a new cycle a few years later. Based on analysis of...
  • Breaking the Frame: Radical Change Through External Corporate Venturing Recently several authors have argued that faced with dramatic change, the firm needs to expand its search space beyond local search to develop new cognitive frameworks that can guide behavior in the changed or changing environment. This paper contributes to this emerging stream of literature by investigating mechanisms that enable...
  • Building External Corporate Venturing Capability: Initial Conditions, Learning Processes and Knowledge Management How firms build new capabilities to adapt to changing environments is in the core of strategic management. However, only recently research has addressed this question. In this paper a model has been developed that lays out how firms develop a capability to create and develop ventures through corporate venture capital,...
  • External Corporate Venturing: Bridging, Execution, and Value Enactment Building on Eisenhardt & Martin, this paper examines one important dynamic capability of firms, that of External Corporate Venturing ECVC. The external corporate venturing capability consists of the following elements: ability to bridge between the corporation and the start-up community; and ability to execute venturing relationships for the rapid development...
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Vault: Boutique Consulting Firms: Vault Career Advice - 0 views

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  • Boutique firms support their clients with highly-specialized expertise. Boutique firms choose to focus on a smaller number of industries (energy, life sciences, retail), functions (M&A, economics and litigation, turnaround), or methodologies (real options, EVA).
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  • There are a couple of common misconceptions about boutique firms. One is that being a "boutique consulting firm" necessarily implies being a small firm. This is not the case. A boutique is determined not by size, but by focus. L.E.K. Consulting (which was founded by a handful of former Bain partners) has roughly 500 employees, but we would consider the company a boutique because of its specific focus on three types of strategy consulting problems-M&A, shareholder value, and business strategy. Another misconception is that boutiques are less prestigious than the multi-functional firms. This highly depends on the area of focus. For example, BCG is extremely well-regarded across many industries for most types of strategy problems, but for a decision analysis or real options strategy problem, clients might turn to Strategic Decisions Group, which focuses on those areas.
  • All this said, we should note that many boutiques are indeed small, ranging from upwards of 200 employees down to a single consultant. Often, boutique consulting firms grow from the expertise and client relationships of one to five founding partners, and unless it sells a consistently large flow of work, the firm has no compelling reason to grow quickly. Also, smaller boutiques can deliver services at lower costs than the larger consultancies because a smaller firm requires less overhead and less extra "capacity" (i.e., consultants), so their services might seem more attractive to prospective clients than those of the more expensive firms. If you are especially interested in a particular industry or type of consulting problem, definitely do your homework on the outstanding boutiques in that field. If you find the right company to match your interests, you will spend all of your time doing the work you dreamt of, and that is a much harder goal to achieve within a more diverse consulting firm.
  • Examples of boutique consulting projects: A consulting firm with a well-known shareholder value methodology helps a beverage company establish value metrics in its business units An economics consulting firm helps a foreign government decide how to structure the privatization (sale) of its utilities through an auction A niche R&D strategy consulting firm deploys two consultants to a high-growth semiconductor company in Silicon Valley for a 3 month project to improve R&D processes A process reengineering boutique snares a 6-month project to assist implementation of new supplier standards for an automotive consortium A turnaround consulting firm helps a telecommunications hardware firm restructure its organization until Chapter 11 bankruptcy
  • Leading boutique and internal consulting firms include: Charles River Associates (economics and litigation consulting) L.E.K. Consulting (shareholder value, M&A, and business strategy) Marakon Associates (shareholder value methodology)
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Open Venture Challenge - Corporate Open Innovation - Collaborative Innovation - Program... - 0 views

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  • Open Ventures Challenge

    The Open Ventures Challenge will harness the interests, skills and resources of crowds and use these to create viable new fundraising ventures for Cancer Research UK.

    These ventures could be a new chain of coffee shops that donates a percentage of profits; a record label that gives a fixed fee for every sale; or a web business that doesn't openly support Cancer Research UK, but is part-owned by them. The point is to create multimillion pound ventures to help fund Cancer Research UK’s life-saving work.

    How it works

    NESTA, Cancer Research UK and mo.jo are now calling for people with good business ideas - or the skills and energy to help make them happen. 

    In early 2009, people will start building teams around their favourite ideas and developing a business plan, with support from Cancer Research UK. 

    In spring 2009, the best groups will be selected for intensive coaching and mentoring to get their venture ready for an investment pitch.

    In summer 2009, the groups will present their ventures to Cancer Research UK's venture board. The successful teams will walk away with at least £10,000 in investment to pilot their idea.

    How to get involved

    If you've got an idea that you think could be transformed into a million pound venture, or fancy getting involved at the early stages of one, please visit http://ovc.mo.jo

    Partners:

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    Cancer Research UK

    Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading charity dedicated to cancer research and the largest funder of cancer research in Europe.

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    mo.jo is focused on developing open models in venture creation, which enable anyone to actively participate in innovation creation, project development and resource

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INNOVATION to the CORE: About Innovation to the Core - 0 views

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