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Why are innovation ecosystems important?

Paul Hobcraft

Recently, I presented my framework to the GIMI think tank GIMI was initiated by a worldwide group of chief innovation officers, innovation executives, academics and consultants in 2009. Enhance Competitiveness: Rationale: Staying ahead in the competitive landscape requires constant innovation.

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We require a more dynamic view of Innovation understanding.

Paul Hobcraft

How do we know the critical skills, competencies and capabilities for innovation? We often miss or fail to ask which skills or attributes are critical to providing a more significant impact for a successful innovation solution. We stifle and lose the real potential of what having the correct dynamics of innovation can offer.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | As we seem to heading towards economic downturn, leaders find themselves trying to reduce costs and foster growth at the same time. We have seen this happening during the last economic crisis, when merely 10% of companies performed better at the end of the crisis than they did before it.

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Innovative Businesses Prioritize Creativity

Daniel Burrus

One problem we witness too often in society is the treatment of creativity and business innovation as mutually exclusive occurrences. One problem we witness too often in society is the treatment of creativity and business innovation as mutually exclusive occurrences. Human beings are meant to be creative.

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How To Lead Through Crisis

Innovation Excellence

Ukraine had been growing briskly in recent years and, while we expected a slowdown, we didn’t expect a crash. Our October revenues had come through fairly strong, so we were reasonably confident in our ability to weather the crisis. By mid-November it had become clear that we were going to have to take drastic measures.

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Overwhelmed, underwhelmed at the Web Summit, Lisbon

Paul Hobcraft

The Web Summit, originally Dublin Web Summit, is a technology conference held annually since 2009. After a robust and competitive tender process involving offers from over 20 cities across Europe, the company behind the world’s largest technology conference has come to a new agreement with the Portuguese government.

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Understand Trends, Identify Strategic Fields of Innovation and Create something entirely New

ITONICS

Change is the new normal. Companies who can quickly identify changes and even weak signals in their environment and react to them before the competition does will gain a decisive competitive edge (Pillkahn, 2007). A trend is an observable change or development towards something new or different.

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