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Innovative Businesses Prioritize Creativity

Daniel Burrus

Most notably, older organizations are the ones that place creativity in one column and positive disruptions via innovation in another. Some have been through the Great Depression, world wars, the Great Recession of 2007–09, and now, most recently, the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent economic downturn.

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Continuous Improvement and Breakthrough Innovation: Why You Need Both

IdeaScale

The iPhone was considered a true innovation back in 2007, opening up an entirely new approach to telecommunications and changing how people used phones forever. Yet even that breakthrough innovation was built upon decades of smaller innovations in telecommunications, internet technology, and computing technology.

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Adapt or die: lessons from 5 companies that failed to innovate

Idea Drop

It feels like the world is moving faster than ever, which means that companies in every sector have to prioritise agile innovation or risk becoming defunct. If it seems like many of the companies that you knew from childhood have vanished, it’s because they have. No company is too big, famous or secure to fail if it resists innovation.

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The New Game Or Is It? Asset Orchestration

Paul Hobcraft

Now Amazon is far from “asset heavy” when you compare them to the Industrial companies like GE but asset orchestration is seemingly getting far greater management time for all companies it seems. So is asset orchestration becoming increasingly critical in the age of ecosystems, platforms and managing technology and data?

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The Role of Innovation in New Product Development: Three Approaches for Success

Qmarkets

The Lego Company for example, consistently use crowdsourcing as a means of sourcing new product ideas, using their community to contribute to the creative NPD process. Of course all phone companies employ incremental innovation with annual upgrades, but the key to Apple’s success is the company’s customer centric approach.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

We have seen this happening during the last economic crisis, when merely 10% of companies performed better at the end of the crisis than they did before it. Understandably, finding the best ways to cope with financial pressure while investing in the future during difficult times is one of the biggest challenges for companies.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

Eric Gabas-Varini is the Partner and Co-Founder of Innovation Framework Technologies, a consulting firm which was founded in Paris, but has since established regional offices in the United States, South Korea & Japan, with a network of associate offices in Latin America and the Middle East. Merging Theory and Practice. Pitfalls to Avoid.