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How to Spot Your Innovation Blind Spot

Phil McKinney

This means that even though an innovative idea is presented to us, we might not fully appreciate its value or understand how it can benefit our organization. How To Avoid Being Surprised By Your Innovation Blind Spot First and foremost, avoid cognitive biases by opening up your mind to new ideas and concepts.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

In this context, innovators wonder how to get ideas across, how to continue projects, what back-up solutions to find and how to keep innovation afloat. These leaders were shown to adopt innovative technologies sooner and to reinvest more frequently as they redirect their IT budgets to innovation.

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How to Take Meaning from a Black Swan Event

The Inovo Group

Normally, Inovo’s subscribers turn to us to understand strategic innovation – how to create growth and manage uncertainty. Today, there is a surfeit of uncertainty – but it centers on how to provide for the welfare of employees, their families, and other at-risk people in our communities. The Black Swan (2007).

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

Qmarkets

Read on to discover how you can transform a recession into a rejuvenation. job losses skyrocketed during the peak recession years 2008-2010 Given the devastating impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis, it’s little wonder that companies worldwide are sensitive to omens of a new “great recession”.

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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

Is innovation a superfluous fad that just won’t go away, or is learning how to be innovative crucial for futureproofing an enterprise? The only difference is that WhatsApp was first to capitalise on the innovative capabilities that were being offered by mobile devices, despite possessing categorically inferior technology and resources.

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Is It Possible for Companies to Over-Innovate?

IdeaScale

How To Over-Innovate. So they went with the Keurig Kold , which, technologically speaking, is a fairly impressive machine. Motorola’s RAZR and RIM’s BlackBerry were cutting-edge until 2007 when the iPhone arrived and made both of them utterly irrelevant in the time it took to explain what an “iPhone” even was.

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How to create a scalable strategy in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis

mjvinnovation

The Lebanese mathematician and statistician is the author of works such as The Logic of the Black Swan (2007) and Antifragile : Things that Benefit from Chaos (2012) – which we have already talked about in our webinar Antifragile Future: where are we headed? How to become scalable. RPA to automate your processes.