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Innovate your way through tough times

Values Centered Innovation

Our habitual sources of entertainment, access to healthcare, ways of working, supply chain management… all put aside. Our habitual ways of living and doing business have been disturbed and unfrozen. That means the opportunity for innovative change is both ripe and necessary.

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IDEA 2008: An Interview with Andrew Hinton

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2008 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. But I’d say my first real challenge was when I had a job at a small medical office as their office manager, and all they had was a typewriter and a telephone.

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Innovating Out of Crisis

Innovation in Practice

In its recent fiscal year ending March 31, 2015, FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation reported a record profit, in spite of the loss of its core business several years ago, brought on by a rapid increase in the digitalization of photography as well as the world financial crisis in 2008. The hair stood up on the back of my neck.”

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The enemy is already within. The flood gates are open. Can GE recover?

Paul Hobcraft

Managing cash, balancing this out with your liabilities and obligations, knowing your market dynamics, and equally, having a good understanding of where the future growth lies, are all essential for managing any healthy business. These disciplines and skills burnish your reputation and are the bedrock of good corporate management.

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The 8 Hidden Venture-Killers

Peer Insight

Case Example : When Kimberly-Clark healthcare wanted to help hospitals reduce preventable readmissions , they had a treasure trove of life science IP to draw upon. They ignored it and instead looked at the problem from a frontline healthcare worker standpoint. Know what will make your venture win, and only focus on that.

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Future Trends 2021: Purpose & Co-creation

Be-novative

Such findings have implications for your company’s talent-management strategy and its bottom line. The next 5-year outlook on the way we work and manage projects ?? The reconstruction of the economy, healthcare, social care, and society at large after the devastating global pandemic crisis, will be unprecedented in human history.

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