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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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The General Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

This is an excerpt from from Kim Goodwin’s excellent Designing for the Digital Age. Project Management for Stakeholder Interviews. Note that it’s as important for in-house teams to ask most of these questions as it is for consultants; you may know one answer, but do you know this particular stakeholder’s answer?

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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. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. 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.

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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. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. 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.

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. 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.

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The Engineering Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

This is an excerpt from from Kim Goodwin’s excellent Designing for the Digital Age. Project Management for Stakeholder Interviews. Try to speak with engineering management as well as the design engineer(s), if such a role exists; it’s seldom a good idea to involve the entire engineering team at this point.

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IA Summit 09 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

IA Summit 2009 Podcasts The IA Summit was held in Memphis, TN from March 20-22. See the Slideshare “IA Summit 2009&# :[link] page for up-to-the-minute lists of available presentations. – Karl Fast Do we have the conceptual tools necessary for designing with next-generation technologies? Is Interaction Necessary?