How to Protect Yourself and Your Company from Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware attacks have appeared frequently in the news lately – you may have heard about oil pipelines being shut down, meat processing plants being disrupted, or water treatment plants being hijacked. And if it seems like you are hearing about these sorts of attacks more often, it’s not just your imagination. Since 2019, there has been a 158% increase in ransomware attacks in […]
Launching a Brand in a Pandemic
Launching a brand is always a challenge. Launching a brand during a pandemic is even more daunting, to say the least. When COVID hit the United States, the creation of the PathForward brand was already well underway. Nicholas Fonteix joined VSE’s team to launch PathForward just as shutdowns were sweeping across the country in March 2020. Since […]
My Innovative Experience: Smartphone App
By Marg G. When we were first presented with the idea of having time taken out of our normal workload to dedicate to Innovation, I thought it was an excellent initiative. After all, a lot of what we do normally becomes routine, so an opportunity to work on something outside the typical workflow seemed intriguing. […]
Novotorium: Bringing Together Innovation, Talent and Purpose
VSE has revamped Novotorium (Novo), a venture studio for purpose-driven entrepreneurs. In other words, Novo is a business that builds businesses, providing growth capital, organization design, product design and development, and a talent network to support its ventures. Using new legal and financial instruments, Novo enables distributed and decentralized business building, and equips entrepreneurs to […]
Innovating Within A Non-Hierarchical, Self-Organizing Enterprise
Since I’ve been working with entrepreneurs in the innovation space, I have come in contact with a slew of approaches to product and business development, many borrowing from Lean and Agile methodologies, or user testing and customer feedback loops described in The Mom Test. Others assimilate equity models and bootstrapping principles out of Slicing Pie, or steps for […]