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How to Keep Innovating During an Economic Crisis

Innov8rs

As long as innovation teams have a strategic approach to solving old problems with new solutions, organizations can expect to not only survive but also thrive. You may be constantly adapting to limited resources and pushed into a corner during a weak economic climate. It does pay off to go back to basics.

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How To Lead Through Crisis

Innovation Excellence

That’s certainly how it felt to me in November, 2008, when I was leading a media company in Kyiv. As if the real news isn’t bad enough, unimaginably crazy stories start getting passed around. I called my senior team into an emergency meeting and told them, “This is bad. Really bad. Certainly mistakes were made.

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Now’s the perfect time to plot a course for the future

Innovation 360 Group

With our on-line assessment tool InnoSurvey®, your team provides input remotely to generate a benchmark of your organization’s capabilities. Get the right team ‘on the bus’. It highlights your strengths and weaknesses relative to the patterns exhibited by global innovation leaders. Penker (2008-2011).

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

Qmarkets

However, by developing an innovation strategy that anticipates a downturn, you can help your enterprise weather the storm and even uncover lucrative ways to gain a competitive edge. It’s estimated that a loss of more than $2 trillion in world-wide economic growth occurred between the second quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. The title of this piece is ‘Great to Good’. Now, how about these?

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. The title of this piece is ‘Great to Good’. The question is “Why?”