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How to incubate a winning innovation program

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This is why innovation programs have become so critical to sustaining the success of enterprises. Then in 2016, Google beat Internet Explorer with its Chrome browser, attaining this success on the strength of Google’s superior search technology. Innovation programs spur change – even to an organization’s own values.

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With Kard, banks and fintechs can build custom credit card rewards programs

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But for young fintech companies newer to card issuance, setting up an attractive rewards program from scratch can be onerous, requiring the issuer to negotiate with individual retail partners and manage the complexities of integration case-by-case. To that end, he hopes to triple the size of Kard’s 25-person team by the end of the year.

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Station F adds an online program to educate the next generation of entrepreneurs

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With this new program, entrepreneurs from anywhere can get started and learn all the basics to start a company. Right now, around 9% of entrepreneurs applying to a Station F program get accepted. It’s a fully online program, which means you can access it from anywhere in the world,” Varza said. Image Credits: Station F.

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Pursuit closes $10M fund to spin up a self-sustaining job training program

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Pursuit founder Jukay Hsu observed that there are job training programs out there, but not only do they often cost considerable money up front but their support ends when the classes do. Program grad Rook Soto and his family. “Getting the skills is a necessary but not sufficient condition for getting hired,” said Hsu.

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Deed pulls your employer’s charity and volunteer program into Slack to keep it front of mind

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Deed started its life in 2016 as an app with a similar, but different, focus. They’d assumed we had an enterprise offering as well to help them with their employee volunteering and engagement programs.”. But it’s still early days for the company — much of its growth, and even its focus on the enterprise, is relatively new.

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Germany’s ITZBund is moving federal IT into the cloud

CIO

Federal cloud and federal operating platform The path to the cloud began in 2016 with the creation of the Federal Cloud, Serrette says, and the ITZBund uses it for the federal e-file, collaboration scenarios, and as a project management and development platform. “But

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From fear to abundance: Rethinking job security in the age of generative AI

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Investments in education, training, and re-skilling programs can empower people to thrive in the age of genAI, creating a more inclusive and equitable workforce. Chet successfully took Apigee public before the company was acquired by Google in 2016. Chet earned his B.S. in engineering from Arizona State University.