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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

As McKinsey points out , organizations that focused on innovation even during the 2009 crisis, outperformed the market average by 30% and their growth continued to accelerate the following years as well. You might have guessed that it depends on the industry, market, and specifics of the organization.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

For the hardware: A thousand songs in your pocket ; for the software: so easy that your Mother could do it ; and for the project: and on the shelves in eight months ! This lightweight, technologically proficient reinvention of existing MP3 players was an global phenomenon that has since sold more than 400 million units since 2001.

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Augmented Reality: The time has come

etventure

Thereby, the technology provides helpful context information or adds features to an existing application. AR, in general, requires a combination of hardware and software tools to connect the different levels. One reason is that one third of the world’s population already uses the technology behind it every day in smartphones.

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Surviving change: how law firms can innovate

Wazoku

Surprisingly, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis in December 2009, there were nearly 112,600 practising solicitors, a figure that climbed to nearly 135,000 as of April this year. Some say that in 10 years time one robot lawyer will deal with the tedious task of reviewing documents that is traditionally done by 10 associates.

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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. These two yahoo software engineers would go on to become the founders of Whatsapp.

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Surviving change: how law firms can innovate

Wazoku

Surprisingly, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis in December 2009, there were nearly 112,600 practising solicitors, a figure that climbed to nearly 135,000 as of April this year. Some say that in 10 years time one robot lawyer will deal with the tedious task of reviewing documents that is traditionally done by 10 associates.

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Innovate or Deteriorate – How Can Corporations Ensure That Billion $ Opportunities Don’t Slip Away?

Qmarkets

With the number of users on this platform reaching 100 million in 2009, this venture could be seen as a success, however in comparison to what it could have achieved, it should be considered an abject failure. Launched in 2009, this app was designed to fulfil the purpose of SMS messaging on mobile phones and it quickly became very popular.