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What impact does time pressure have on creativity?

Idea to Value

At the same time, there is no shortage of stories of people, teams and companies succeeding under tremendous time pressure to come up with game-changing ideas to solve a problem, produce a piece of art or breakthrough new product.

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How To Lead Through Crisis

Innovation Excellence

In many ways, our business never really recovered, but the lessons I learned while managing through it will last a lifetime. As if the real news isn’t bad enough, unimaginably crazy stories start getting passed around. I called my senior team into an emergency meeting and told them, “This is bad. Really bad.

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Spotting Innovation Opportunities

ITONICS

It is an advantageous space to innovate and grow in and builds the starting point for the development of ideas for products, services or new business models. Instead of feeling powerless or even threatened by the current developments, companies have to go out and search for their own disruptive innovation power.

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Case study of agile and UCD working together

Boxes and Arrows

Large scale websites require groups of specialists to design and develop a product that will be a commercial success. To develop a completely new site requires several teams to collaborate and this can be difficult. Particularly as different teams may be working with different methods. Do people get on with each other?

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

Many of its outside-the-box experiments—LEGO theme parks, TV shows, clothing, accessories, electronic toys, learning centers, and Harry Potter- and Star Wars-based toys—failed. In 2004, CEO Knudstrop embarked on a back-to-the-basics journey, and went from a loss of $292 million that year to a profit of $117 million in 2005. Learn More.