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Innovative Businesses Prioritize Creativity

Daniel Burrus

For Citibank, a technological disruption came in 1975 when ATM machines exploded onto the banking scene, allowing individuals to withdraw their own money without the face-to-face contact with a teller needed prior. Often it takes a crisis to make us step back and rethink our products, services, and even our culture.

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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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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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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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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

This lightweight, technologically proficient reinvention of existing MP3 players was an global phenomenon that has since sold more than 400 million units since 2001. First and foremost you need to identify the most popular product or service which currently exists within your field of industry and then scrutinise its strengths and weaknesses.

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A whole-health approach to skin care: Could hormones explain your skin issues?

Christensen Institute

Does the offering have a technology that enables it to improve and capture a larger market over time? Veracity is currently the only hormone-based skin care solution on the market, enabled by its testing technology combined with its database and recommendation engine.

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Innovation & Strategy Conference: Driving Home Disruption

Yet2

Karen Madden , VP Technology and Innovation of PerkinElmer, provided first-hand experience and advice on how big corporations can drive impact by cooperating with startups: “It’s not an option anymore, if you don’t team up with the disruptive, you’re going to get disrupted.” All companies have a mix of internal and external innovation.