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Avoid the Iridium Moment

Destination Innovation

Another example given by Ismail is Nokia’s purchase of Navteq for a staggering $8B in 2007. This would give it a strong competitive weapon against Apple and Google. This would give it a strong competitive weapon against Apple and Google. Navteq was the dominant player in in-road traffic sensing equipment.

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

Qmarkets

In this blog we will share how crowdsourcing, incremental, and breakthrough innovation can be used as part of your NPD strategy throughout the FFE stage. Crowdsourcing New Product Development: The Lego Approach As the name suggests, crowdsourcing means ‘outsourcing to the crowds’.

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Moving Lean Construction into the Digital Age: Last Planner Meets Collective Intelligence

Planview

The leaders of these firms say that they marked 2016 as the year in which they felt that they could put the dark days of the 2007-08 recession behind them, once and for all. Flush times do not mean relief from competition. Our clients in the construction business tell me that the industry enjoys flush times, once again.

LEAN 40
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Moving Lean Construction into the Digital Age: Last Planner Meets Collective Intelligence

Planview

The leaders of these firms say that they marked 2016 as the year in which they felt that they could put the dark days of the 2007-08 recession behind them, once and for all. Flush times do not mean relief from competition. Our clients in the construction business tell me that the industry enjoys flush times, once again.

LEAN 40
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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

However, by developing an innovation strategy that anticipates a downturn, you can help your enterprise weather the storm and even uncover lucrative ways to gain a competitive edge. To gain that all-important edge, it’s advisable to survey the marketplace – through crowdsourcing projects, ? portfolio scouting campaigns , etc. –

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

find new ideas and examples to disrupt your industry. In this page, we collected some future trends, technologies, possibilities, opportunities, that inspired us the most, with concrete examples of how small and large organizations are leveraging (when not creating themselves) these trends. What if all your employees were freelancers?