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Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innovators Alliance

And its iPad was introduced during the 2008 downturn. 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.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. In response to reading Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup , GE adopted Lean and built their Fastworks program around it.

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Four Innovation Paradoxes driving disruption

Innovation 360 Group

In 2008, I systematically started to collect, analyse and use data to understand, invest, consult and lead firms based on their capabilities for innovation, simply because innovation seems to be what best describes the disruptions we see. Technology is often developed by large successful corporations but they lack runways for landing it.