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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Competitive Advantage In all circumstances, leaders will and should have strategic priorities on top of their minds. Usually, you need innovation for that, which means that you either adapt to current challenges or lag behind the competition. Why shouldn’t you just give up on innovation when times are tough?

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Innovation and the rapidly changing world of photography

Jeffrey Phillips

We've reached a couple of interesting milestones in a very short period of time, and it behooves us to pay attention to the changes in what has been an important industry - photography. This of course follows on Kodak's decision to stop manufacturing film for most cameras, which occurred in 2009.

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Innovative Businesses Prioritize Creativity

Daniel Burrus

What many don’t realize is that as time has passed and the world has changed, their traditional products and services may continue to sell well, but the margins are much lower and there is much more competition. And why might a company lack innovation? Keeping Your Organization Comfortably Creative.

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The new ROI for digital innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation has had a bigger brother moving into the house next door; Digital Technology and between them, they have been busily knocking the walls down, to share the future going forward. Data specific, technology driven, innovation invigorating. The two have become interlinked, you seem to always need the one to respond to the other.

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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. The topic of the conference is centered on internet technology and I went looking for multiple innovation angles and left actually disappointed. I am not a techie, geek or seeking to compete in the technology Olympics.

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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

Advances in mechanisation, mass production and, more recently, technology have shaped where and how we work, as well as what we produce. 1945 – Producing skilled workers to rebuild after the war At the end of the Second World War, courses were again adapted to the needs of post-war reconstruction to provide training for the building industry.

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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

With the number of users on this platform reaching 100 million in 2009, this venture could be seen as a success. Launched in 2009, this app was designed to fulfil the purpose of SMS messaging on mobile phones and it quickly became very popular. Part 2: A Messenger Ascends. Part 2: A Messenger Fails. Picture Perfect?