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VUCA is a matter of perspective

Jeffrey Phillips

Not too many people seem to remember the stock market crash of 2008, but of course that was a decade ago. VUCA is, however, more relevant than ever to people who refuse to take the long view, or who refuse to prepare. We innovators and purveyors of future insight talk about VUCA like it's a problem.

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How much luck do you need to be creative?

Idea to Value

However, this is an example of survivorship bias , where for every successful person, there will be a multitude of others who did almost the exactly same things but did not succeed, so you never hear about their efforts or failures. Some people who are successful will acknowledge how luck played a role in their success.

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Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innovators Alliance

We often jump to cost-cutting in an effort to preserve profits and cash flow. The logic is simple: we need to stay afloat. As a result, we focus internally, at the expense of forward-looking innovation. And its iPad was introduced during the 2008 downturn.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | As we seem to heading towards economic downturn, leaders find themselves trying to reduce costs and foster growth at the same time. We have seen this happening during the last economic crisis, when merely 10% of companies performed better at the end of the crisis than they did before it.

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Life Lessons from the Game of Golf

Tullio Siragusa

Playing as often as possible, reading how to books, and taking as many clients on the course as possible. The more open we are to learn, the humbler we remain, the more fulfilled we become as we grow and become better than we were the day before. Life Lessons from the Game of Golf.

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Covering Innovation My Way

Paul Hobcraft

Just trying to stay your own course is tough enough but with all the diversity of views it must be even more overwhelming for others who are asked to take on a role within innovation. Where and who do you turn too must be a real dilemma ? I have two established businesses, one started in 2000 and one in 2008.

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IDEA 2008: An Interview with Bill DeRouchey

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2008 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. We’re going to need a lot more product UI designers in the coming years, and they’re going to come from onscreen UI designers. RU: Who do you look to for inspiration? This fascinates me too.