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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

job losses skyrocketed during the peak recession years 2008-2010 Given the devastating impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis, it’s little wonder that companies worldwide are sensitive to omens of a new “great recession”. During the 2008 financial meltdown, the coffee shop giant launched its “My Starbucks Idea” platform.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

As innovation managers or as someone working with innovation, it’s essential to discuss with leadership and show how your work and the projects envisioned for the organization can help achieve the goals even in the new context. Here’s where an idea management software can again help you.

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THE QUESTION: Who Created "The Year of Living Creatively?"

Idea Champions

Sold my shares in 2008. FREE THE GENIE : A deck of cards to help aspiring innovators originate, develop, and manifest bold new ideas and possibilities. CREATIVE THINKING GUIDEBOOKS : A set of five 16-page guidebooks to help aspiring innovators originate, develop, and implement new ideas. Now migrating its services online.

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How to Run the Ultimate Corporate Hackathon

Qmarkets

Programmers and software professionals squeezing time in against packed evenings and weekends to accelerate productivity.” He continues to describe the hackathon format as one of “decentralized, disintermediated, distributed computer programming [that] proves an industry standard for software development.”. Think again. Its origins?

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How to Run the Ultimate Corporate Hackathon

Qmarkets

Programmers and software professionals squeezing time in against packed evenings and weekends to accelerate productivity.” He continues to describe the hackathon format as one of “decentralized, disintermediated, distributed computer programming [that] proves an industry standard for software development.”. Think again. Its origins?

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“Embrace Open Innovation or be Destroyed by it…” – A Case Study on Lego & Bagels

Qmarkets

Mugglestone, 2005) Now if this task were to be attempted using a contemporary Idea Management platform , it could be completed in days rather than decades. In 2008 they launched an Open Innovation platform called Lego Ideas which allows anyone to submit proposals for new construction sets. The Innovation Gamble.

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“Embrace Open Innovation or be Destroyed by it…” – A Case Study on Lego & Bagels

Qmarkets

Mugglestone, 2005) Now if this task were to be attempted using a contemporary Idea Management platform , it could be completed in days rather than decades. In 2008 they launched an Open Innovation platform called Lego Ideas which allows anyone to submit proposals for new construction sets. The Innovation Gamble.