IdeaScale

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Every company says they want to be “innovative” and some of them use “crowdsourcing” to do so. In simple terms, it means that a company has their employees and sometimes customers brainstorm new ways to make the company better, whether it is improving small processes or creating a whole new product.

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Destination Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Why did the company halt the presses after 244 years in print? Encarta was discontinued in 2009 by which time a new and mighty competitor was dominating the market – Wikipedia. First published in Edinburgh in 1768, Encyclopedia Britannica became a trusted reference work in homes, schools and offices around the world.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In study after study , companies with more diverse workforces, from the C-suite and board down to the interns, show more growth, productivity, and efficiency. Diversity increases collective intelligence, that is, the overall skill and talent base from which the companies draw. Diversity Challenges Assumptions.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 22, 2009

As IDEA 2009 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. Because this project centered on the makers of Second Life, Linden Lab in San Francisco, to a certain extent the familiar form of face-to-face ethnographic participant observation and interviewing was possible.

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Destination Innovation

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A friend had dared Hsieh to start a company with the name Venture Frogs so that is what he did. The company gained a reputation for extraordinary customer service. By 2009, he had grown revenues to $1 billion. Hsieh made at least $200 million from the sale but stayed on as CEO to lead the company. This proved successful.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

All this changed however, with the popularisation of the internet, and since then there have been hundreds of different companies which have sought to profit by facilitating communication using this network. One of the first companies to offer their own chat service was Yahoo, who launched Yahoo Pager in 1998. Picture Perfect?

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 1, 2023

Innovation is still not treated company-wide holistically, as recognition of the dependencies is poorly understood. Paul Hobcraft and Agility Innovation Specialists, all rights reserved, a journey that continues to pursue the innovation dynamics studies and suggested frameworks 2009 – 2023.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 6, 2023

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. Understandably, finding the best ways to cope with financial pressure while investing in the future during difficult times is one of the biggest challenges for companies.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Sometimes companies are afraid to launch a crowdsourced innovation program, because they’re afraid that they’ll have to deliver on an avalanche of ideas. Even if the participant didn’t want to hear “no,” they had felt heard and they had a reason why their idea hadn’t progressed and they moved on to other ideas.

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Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Harvard Business School Module Note, August 2009 (revised November 2021). Companies that make money in these industries are the ones that facilitate the effective operation of the network. Social media companies are examples. Christensen and Mark W. Johnson, “What Are Business Models, and How Are They Built?”

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Christensen Institute

JULY 28, 2022

We discovered those that can make an impact in DOH don’t look like traditional health care companies. In their 2009 HBS Module Note, “What are business models and how are they built?” Harvard Business School Module Note, August 2009 (revised November 2021). Source: This graphic was originally published in Clayton M.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This can certainly be viewed as a positive feat: For a company like Citibank to withstand so many outside disruptions, they have to be doing something right! However, for many other older companies, being around for decades and in some cases, centuries , causes them to more quickly protect and defend the status quo.

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Innov8rs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Mike has thirty years of experience in building and leading cross functional teams and organizations to successfully define, develop and bring new companies and products to market. The companies that already have embraced InnovationOps are reporting promising outcomes. Of course, every company is fundamentally different.

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Christensen Institute

MAY 17, 2022

Harvard Business School Module Note, August 2009 (revised November 2021). Business models determine an organization or company’s capabilities (what it can and can’t do) and its priorities (what it must accomplish). This defines how the company will maintain viability and sustainability to support its cost structure over time.

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Destination Innovation

DECEMBER 7, 2015

She had never run a company before and had little financial experience, having worked mainly in Sales and Human Resources functions. She took over the reins of a company which was close to bankruptcy. She took over the reins of a company which was close to bankruptcy. She saved the company. She invested in innovation.

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Matthew May

JULY 24, 2015

Contributor: The New York Times, Strategy+Business, Fast Company. Author, IN PURSUIT OF ELEGANCE: Why The Best Ideas Have Something Missing (Crown Business, 2009). Author, THE LAWS OF SUBTRACTION: 6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess (McGraw, 2012).

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Stephen Shapiro

JUNE 27, 2022

LG Electronics (2009) was looking to “design their version of the next revolutionary LG mobile phone.” Here’s how it works: A company has a problem they want solved. Cisco, LG Electronics, and GE have all used the “find a winner” model as a way to develop ideas. Their tournament had 835 submissions from 324 individuals.

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Innovation 360 Group

JANUARY 25, 2011

Today Hey Group release their Global Top 20 companies for leadership, top five at the list was: General Electric. Two European firms formerly outside the 2009 top 20 – Siemens and Banco Santander – have jumped straight into the 2010 top 5. The post The world’s best company to work for appeared first on Home of Innovation.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 29, 2016

A fter collecting and studying innovation data from over 1,000 companies in 62 countries, I’m often asked whether Small and Midsize Enterprises (SME) are more innovative and entrepreneurial than larger corporations. The first Horizon 1 (H1) is about incremental innovation in today’s business, extending the existing S-Curve of the company.

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Innovation 360

MAY 29, 2016

A fter collecting and studying innovation data from over 1,000 companies in 62 countries, I’m often asked whether Small and Midsize Enterprises (SME) are more innovative and entrepreneurial than larger corporations. The first Horizon 1 (H1) is about incremental innovation in today’s business, extending the existing S-Curve of the company.

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Innovation 360 Group

APRIL 1, 2016

By studying over 1,000 companies in 62 countries and all continents over the past years, we have not only built the largest 360-database with multiple respondents in each company (external and internal stakeholders as respondents for a full 360°) but we have also been able to refine and develop our methods for analysis and management of innovation.

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Innovation 360

APRIL 1, 2016

By studying over 1,000 companies in 62 countries and all continents over the past years, we have not just built the largest 360-database with multiple respondents in each company (external and internal stakeholders as respondents for a full 360°) but we have also been able to refine and develop our methods for analysis and management of innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 1, 2018

This of course follows on Kodak's decision to stop manufacturing film for most cameras, which occurred in 2009. Both companies had long and profitable runs from these original products, and both experienced a sudden and rapid transition.

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Yet2

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Our key takeaways were: Finding a business champion inside the Goliath (big company) is vital to assist David (small company) navigate the inner workings of large corporations. Champions oversee idea diffusion to the appropriate groups within a big company. All companies have a mix of internal and external innovation.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 21, 2022

In line with the trend towards whole-health care in the US, an innovative company, Veracity Selfcare , is taking a different approach to skin health: looking underneath the customer’s skin at the role hormones play in one’s skin symptoms. Dermatologists don’t generally cross-specialize in endocrinology.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2020

That’s certainly how it felt to me in November, 2008, when I was leading a media company in Kyiv. In our case, that meant restructuring the entire company over the next 36 hours in order to bring our costs somewhat back in line with revenues. We found something similar during the Ukraine economic collapse of 2009.

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Commodore Innovation

MARCH 23, 2020

If you’re interested in how companies are adjusting future spending plans for the remainder of 2020, sign up below for further information about our forthcoming benchmarking report. Great Recession (late-2007 to mid-2009): R&D spending didn’t decline until 2009 (by 5.2%), but the decline continued into 2010 (0.4%).

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Leanstack

JUNE 10, 2021

Crises have historically resulted in a massive redistribution of the value chain from incumbents to new challenger companies and products. the Great Recession of 2009: Uber, Slack, Airbnb. Post Dotcom bust 2000s: Apple launches iPod and the iPhone, Mailchimp.

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 18, 2015

Angry Birds was released in 2009. It was the 52 nd game that Rovio had launched since the company was founded in 2003. The product is produced by the Rocket chemical company and is distributed in over 160 countries. It sold over 20 million copies on various mobile platforms. The spin-off products include books and a Sony film.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

They both led their companies to the brink of oblivion. In his 2009 book A Colossal Failure Of Common Sense , Larry McDonald wrote that Fuld’s “smouldering envy” of Goldman Sachs and other banking competitors led him to ignore warnings from Lehman executives about the impending crash.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

On November 2, 2009, we launched Brainzooming as a new company helping organizations across industries imagine and implement strategy, branding, and innovation initiatives. I’m not sure when it first became clear that helping people realize and use their God-given talents to innovate strategically is my life’s work.

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ITONICS

AUGUST 26, 2019

ITONICS was born 10 years ago in 2009. On August 20, the company celebrated the important milestone: its 10th Anniversary, by gathering a large crowd of friends, partners, colleagues, and clients at the rooftop of the Design Offices in Nuremberg. The journey of these 10 years is summarized here by the Founder and CEO Dr. Michael Durst.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 18, 2017

Amer Sports is a large, international, Nasdaq-Helsinki-listed sporting goods company with both B2B and B2C focus in 34 countries. Founded in 1950, with origins and history in several industries, Amer has a robust background in adapting to new transnational markets and shape-shifting to refocus company efforts.

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Brian Arthur, well-known economist who described the phenomenon of increasing returns and wrote the excellent 2009 book, “ The Nature of Technology ”. There is much more that Arthur touches on in the article and it well worth reading and contemplating as you think about the digital transformations your company is undertaking.

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Innovators Alliance

JUNE 19, 2020

While COVID-19 is unprecedented, the Great Recession that took place in Canada from 2008-2009 also had a severe impact on businesses. Is your company innovative? They candidly discuss their insecurities and concerns, which is not always easy when they sit at the top of an organization. This is when the true value is realized.

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ITONICS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Evolving markets, new demands, standards, and values, as well as ever shorter product life cycles, require a high level of adaptability on the part of the companies. However, given the complexity and the fast pace of their market environment, companies are in many cases no longer able to understand it in sufficient detail. Köpernik, K.

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100%Open

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Of course, proprietary innovation is the lifeblood of large companies. A company’s value largely rests on its ability to create and protect intellectual property, doesn’t it? It turns out that company staff like the involvement with the outside world and this has the effect of opening up the culture internally too.

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