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Innovation and creativity: the lasting competitive advantage

Jeffrey Phillips

Dubai is unusual because it combines a number of factors - an energetic leadership, a country and region hungry for growth and transformation, a significant investment pool, and a real "can do" spirit. While I was in Dubai I was speaking with an executive of a firm that reviewed intellectual property.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

As Bill Fischer highlights in his ‘Innovating The iPod’ article; “The goals articulated by the leadership were surprisingly simple, broad yet precise. For the hardware: A thousand songs in your pocket ; for the software: so easy that your Mother could do it ; and for the project: and on the shelves in eight months !

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. Unpredictable environments : Inherently dynamic and unpredictable industries (such as technology, software, fashion or internet retailing) require experimentation without predefined goals, embedded in the operations, to increase variance.

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8 External Innovation Sources You should know

ITONICS

In addition to a software that automatically evaluates and clusters all trend and technology information, a dedicated team of external trend and tech scouts can deliver a continuous flood of data. Software and consulting companies. Software and consulting companies that provide solutions and services for innovation management.

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How Edmunds.com Used Lean Innovation to Make Their Mission a Reality

Moves the Needle

Online automotive resource Edmunds.com has a mission to make car buying easy. But while proven to provide trustworthy ratings, reviews, and vehicle data, consumer feedback showed that the #1 unmet Edmunds.com consumer need was to improve the car-buying process.

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8 External Sources of Innovation

ITONICS

In addition to a software that automatically evaluates and clusters all trend and technology information, a dedicated team of external trend and tech scouts can deliver a continuous flood of data. Software and consulting companies. Software and consulting companies that provide solutions and services for innovation management.

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The 21 Best Business Strategy Blogs

CMOE

Each blog offers unique thought leadership materials to help guide your strategy in the upcoming quarter. Each blog offers unique thought leadership materials to help guide your strategy in the upcoming quarter. INSEAD Knowledge INSEAD Knowledge is the business thought leadership platform of INSEAD—The Business School for the World.