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Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innovators Alliance

And its iPad was introduced during the 2008 downturn. While many leaders invest in innovation when times are good, it’s valuable to learn lessons from the lean times and leverage them to help us move forward, regardless of the economic environment.

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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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How To Succeed With Purpose

Innovators Alliance

Phillip founded PUBLIC in 2008 to disrupt the way companies think about doing “good”. So now they are doubling down with A Million More , their latest safety platform to save another million lives through new technologies like a speed cap and driver monitoring to turn off the car when intoxicated. 4 – Take a stand .

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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. Jens started as a technology writer. Find or Post New Jobs! Support our sponsors!

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Innovation – Are you aware of how critical it is to your business?

Wazoku

If you then think about the actual physical enablers of innovation you have to embrace technology, especially if you want to scale capability across a large dislocated workforce or embrace the wisdom of the crowd by opening up innovation challenges. However, a word of caution as I see many organisations focusing on ‘shiny’ new ‘enablers’.

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Innovation – Are you aware of how critical it is to your business?

Wazoku

If you then think about the actual physical enablers of innovation you have to embrace technology, especially if you want to scale capability across a large dislocated workforce or embrace the wisdom of the crowd by opening up innovation challenges. However, a word of caution as I see many organisations focusing on ‘shiny’ new ‘enablers’.

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Four Innovation Paradoxes driving disruption

Innovation 360 Group

In 2008, I systematically started to collect, analyse and use data to understand, invest, consult and lead firms based on their capabilities for innovation, simply because innovation seems to be what best describes the disruptions we see. Technology is often developed by large successful corporations but they lack runways for landing it.