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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Innovators are forced to give up on initiatives, projects, and resources. In this context, innovators wonder how to get ideas across, how to continue projects, what back-up solutions to find and how to keep innovation afloat. The long-horizon projects are the first to go and this leads to an unbalanced innovation portfolio.

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Is vertical integration the next value-based care?

Christensen Institute

Harvard Business School Module Note, August 2009 (revised November 2021). In it, executives will find a strategy primer and decision tool to help them determine the best strategy for their organization, based on their current and projected future contexts. Christensen and Mark W.

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COVID-19: Business R&D Spending Will Fall by at Least 5-6%

Commodore Innovation

As individuals we are grappling with the fear, disruption and uncertainty brought about by COVID-19. Innovation teams are not, of course, immune to this disruption. 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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Vitamins Don't Have a Triggering Event

Leanstack

Like a lot of entrepreneurs, you probably hit the brakes on your project or put your new ideas on the back-burner in order to conserve resources and ride out the uncertainty. the Great Recession of 2009: Uber, Slack, Airbnb. Yes, no matter how disruptive your offering, there is always an old way.

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Qmarkets & Amer Sports – An Innovative Partnership that Created Unprecedented Employee Engagement

Qmarkets

Amer’s R&D team grew from 487 people at the close of 2009 to 802 people at the close of 2016 – amounting to 9% of all employees and 9.5% of all operating expenses, making R&D an irreplaceable core competency for the company. What were the Innovation Challenges Facing Amer Sports?

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Choosing the right strategy handling uncertainty

Innovation 360 Group

Both situations are more common than we’d like to admit, simply because we try to apply what we know (how to run projects and operations with performance models, ROI and budgets) to something we don’t know. Platform and design thinking, prototyping, ideation, project selection, and speed are imperative capabilities.

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Choosing the right strategy handling uncertainty

Innovation 360

Both situations are more common than we’d like to admit, simply because we try to apply what we know (how to run projects and operations with performance models, ROI and budgets) to something we don’t know. Platform and design thinking, prototyping, ideation, project selection, and speed are imperative capabilities.