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5 Tech Issues That Can Slow Down Innovation

IdeaScale

In our minds, technology and innovation are interconnected. However, for every technological advancement, there seems to be a learning curve or adjustment period as we try to figure out how to implement automation into our daily lives. Technology: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? source: pixabay.com. 1 The Devil in Design.

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Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innovators Alliance

While many leaders invest in innovation when times are good, it’s valuable to learn lessons from the lean times and leverage them to help us move forward, regardless of the economic environment. Go Bargain Hunting In a downturn, good deals can be found in the form of technology licensing and acquisitions.

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Toward a New Horizon Model

Moves the Needle

Innovator’s take: Horizon 2 is defined as “incremental” innovation , which typically means modifying existing products or technology to create new markets, or applying external technology in new ways. They will come from a combination of efforts: Scouting technology to learn how existing needs will be solved in the future.

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The Winning Formula for Financial Process Improvement – How TSYS is Defining the Future of Fintech

Qmarkets

Rapidly changing customer behaviours, disruptive digital technologies, and the emergence of agile fintech start-ups means that disruption is an ever-present danger. The word ‘innovation’ usually brings to mind cutting-edge new products or technologically streamlined services.

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The 5 Most-Needed Qualities for Leadership in Healthcare

CMOE

With the changing needs and demands of clinical care, technology, and spending, leadership in healthcare must stay agile to keep up with the shifting tides. In addition to patient care, healthcare leaders have bottom-line finances to think about. Encourage your team to lean into, rather than stray away from, change.

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3 Strategies for Starting Your Lean Portfolio Management Journey

Planview

There are a number of benefits that come from following Lean Portfolio Management principles in your organization. In order to achieve enterprise Agility, Lean-Agile principles and practices must also be applied to the entire enterprise well before work is delivered by Agile teams. The reason? projects, programs, portfolios).

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Balancing Innovation via Organizational Ambidexterity – Part 3

Integrative Innovation

O’Reilly and Michael Tushman review and condense the research done so far on the subject. They may initially come from a customer insight or a technological discovery (market pull or technology push). On the technical level, pre-production units are being built and the supply chain is being set up.