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CPG Industry Innovation

eZassi

How do the major companies’ research and development teams build and manage a portfolio of innovative products while ensuring long-term market success and consistent brand loyalty? They also look to outside ideas in competitions like the P&G Ventures Innovation Challenge, sharing the stage of ideation with promising startups.

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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. Why shouldn’t you just give up on innovation when times are tough?

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When tough times are ahead, you should double down on innovation

Idea to Value

Disruptive innovation usually starts from the low-end of the of market , which means that these innovators are uniquely positioned for tough times. For example, during the 2008-09 financial crisis, most companies cut their technology budgets by 20-30%. That obviously meant quite a bit of trouble for most technology companies.

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How much is innovation costing your organization?

Innovation 360 Group

Openness is where market innovation truly takes place. Successful organizations use external resources in an open co-creation process to achieve a larger accessible market through building value nets and growing the total market. Penker (2008-2011). Be Open – share ideas with competitors.

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Preparing for recovery before it’s too late

Strategos

Discontinuities are significant, fundamental changes that have the potential to change industry dynamics, redefine the rules of competition. A slew of new players entered the market such as Transferwise, Revolut and Stripe, to name a few. Update the discontinuities. Lesson 3: economic downturns change the industry landscape.

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The New Game Or Is It? Asset Orchestration

Paul Hobcraft

They might be operating at the two ends of the current internet trading spectrum and are coming from different market maturity positions but it is the asset management that is becoming critical for delivering the profit or dragging performance. I quote “I’d say Amazon are “ asset heavy ” whereas Alibaba remains “asset light”.

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How To Lead Through Crisis

Innovation Excellence

That’s certainly how it felt to me in November, 2008, when I was leading a media company in Kyiv. By that time, the financial crisis was going full throttle, although things had been relatively calm in our market. Our goal was to do more than just survive, but to position ourselves to be more competitive in the future.