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Are you Ready to use this Economic Downturn to Become Recession Proof?

Daniel Burrus

A brief example of an organization that capitalized on the 2008 recession in remarkable ways is Lego. As economic uncertainty looms ahead, companies of all sizes have begun their transition to a strictly lean, agile operation, often choosing to wait out the stormy waters of the next year and keep the status quo. The short answer is no.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

The Lean Startup (Ries). The Lean Enterprise. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2008 more…. Innovation Strategy (Goffin). Please drop a comment if you would like one or more methodologies included in this overview. The list is almost random. Innovation Cycle (Avans). Focus stage: Growth Published: 2013 more….

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How To Succeed With Purpose

Innovators Alliance

Phillip founded PUBLIC in 2008 to disrupt the way companies think about doing “good”. Driven by a passion to prove that social and environmental impact is a key business driver to achieve profit with purpose, he set out to build a social impact agency – designing social and environmental purpose brands, strategies, programs and campaigns.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Are lean innovation and the Startup Way a failure in large companies?

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Take Smarter Risks through Discovery Driven Planning

KindlingApp

This is why the principles found in lean methodology have been so widely accepted and applied; the ability to be agile and adjust are the characteristics of top-tier organizations. There’s an old saying many may be familiar with: "haste makes waste" (we really do become our parents…).

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Information Architecture for Audio: Doing It Right - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

Boxes and Arrows

Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design Register or Log In Search Stories Ideas Forums People Events Jobs About December Issue, 2008 Jens Jacobsen 32 Reputation points Jens likes writing for multimedia and loves tracking down usability issues. passive/reclined or active/leaning forward) Expectations (i.e. Find or Post New Jobs!

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

2008) have written an excellent paper on the discussion of what entrepreneurship competence actually. Koppl, 2008; Lewin, 2011). From an educational point of view it is therefore more obsolete to teach entrepreneurship through the determinants of entrepreneurship – in education often called the entrpreneurship competence. Lans et al.