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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. This infographic from TechTarget shows how a Kaizen cycle can help boost continuous improvement within an enterprise.

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The Engineering Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

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. For example, one client told us they had already sunk millions of dollars into a particular system as the basis of their development. Engineering stakeholders.

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Brands In Memoriam 2012

CorporateIntel

Recent memory had us bid adieu to such iconic enterprises as Palm, Saab, Lehman Brothers, Zenith, Compaq, Borders, Circuit City, Ritz Camera, CompUSA, Mervyn’s, Friendster, Tower Records, Polaroid, and Kodak. Can you imagine a good reason to continue two separate editorial teams? I don’t think that’s the whole story.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Research has shown that innovation is mostly linked to the Schumpetarian view: innovative companies are more likely to be started by Schumpetarian-type founders (Samuelsson & Davidsson, 2009), are more likely to be started by engineering students (Ilozor et al., Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? Shane, 2003).

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IA Summit 09 - Day 1

Boxes and Arrows

IA Summit 2009 Podcasts The IA Summit was held in Memphis, TN from March 20-22. Additionally, Nate identifies the key considerations when designing a mobile ethnographic study, indicating how technological developments in the future might be used to improve upon current methods.

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

That is the lesson learned at Lego — just in time,” says David Robertson, Professor of Practice teaching Innovation and Product Development at Wharton. If you thought GameCube was bad, Wii U was worse. Since 2009, Haier has been taking top spot on Euromonitor International’s major appliances global brand rankings.