LIBERTY GLOBAL VENTURES
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importance of innovation across Liberty Global and the use of the SPARK program
“ There ' s more capital in the system , yet less capital required to start companies now than there used to be . When I was an entrepreneur , there weren ' t programs specifically designed to help entrepreneurs accelerate their startups , scale their businesses and be introduced to interested investors ”
BRUCE DINES PARTNER AND LEAD IN INNOVATION , LIBERTY GLOBAL VENTURES more functional software . Now , there are public release forums , where bugs can be outed by crowdsharing with volunteers as part of the scrum / agile process , and with better architecture and performance tools , release cycles are both rapid with higher performance .”
As manufacturing had extraordinarily long TTM life cycles , executives looking for competitive advantage started introducing agile methodologies into their product creation and manufacturing processes . Agile then evolved into lean and other process improvement methodologies .
" I think that there are still large corporations out there who have been around a long time , but they haven ' t necessarily figured out how to incorporate design thinking or lean and agile methodologies into their core culture . And so , our internal innovation programs are specifically designed to create opportunities for business units to engage in learning those methodologies ."
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