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The Creativity Crisis: It’s Getting Worse

Idea to Value

Making test scores as the measure of success fosters students’ competition and narrows their goals, such as getting rich, while decreasing their empathy and compassion for those in need. However, since the 1990s: Avoiding collaboration. Since 2008, my research reveals that the Creativity Crisis has grown worse.

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CPG Industry Innovation

eZassi

It’s a complex, interdepartmental system that is augmented with 3 tactics: the advantage of open innovation, strategic supply chain forecasting, and tools for enhanced collaboration across teams that bring new products to market. Following the competition and battling over market share is not a viable strategy.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Competitive Advantage In all circumstances, leaders will and should have strategic priorities on top of their minds. Usually, you need innovation for that, which means that you either adapt to current challenges or lag behind the competition. Maybe now it’s the time to discover collaboration opportunities that were not possible before.

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IDEA 2008

Boxes and Arrows

37signals’ products do less than the competition—intentionally. Mixing Messages – Edwina von Gal The design of a park around a museum of biodiversity in Panama (designed by Frank Gehry) has inspired a number of collaborations and connections throughout Panama and, now the United States.

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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. It’s estimated that a loss of more than $2 trillion in world-wide economic growth occurred between the second quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009.

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Covering Innovation My Way

Paul Hobcraft

I have two established businesses, one started in 2000 and one in 2008. This is a collaborative site I share with Jeffrey Phillips from Ovo Innovation. This is actually our fourth substantive collaboration here but this time we decided to turn our thinking into a regular viewpoint as the subject is presently evolving before us.

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The Travel & Hospitality Industry is Being Disrupted, Again.

Leapfrogging

The “travel-tech” sector has attracted over $19B+ since 2008. I believe the most cost and capital efficient path to true innovation is strategic collaboration between the leading travel industry suppliers/service providers and startups that are solving real world problems.”. So what are the big bang disrupters on the horizon?