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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. So, you need to review and fine-tune the existing innovation strategy to match the new priorities.

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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

Is innovation a superfluous fad that just won’t go away, or is learning how to be innovative crucial for futureproofing an enterprise? With the number of users on this platform reaching 100 million in 2009, this venture could be seen as a success. These two yahoo software engineers would go on to become the founders of Whatsapp.

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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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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization.

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The Engineering Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

If there are no design engineers, a system architect and GUI lead may be the best option for software expertise. However, any technical group’s reluctance to give up control over design is usually due to the fact that so far, they’ve been the most competent to do it. Programmers and engineers may initially be wary of designers.

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What is idea management and why is it important for any business

hackerearth

To learn how you can introduce idea management software in your business, Click here. Keep good ideas for future use; implementation for learning. Järrehult, 2009). It is just that now companies use idea submission software, and not boxes, that get all the ideas into a central repository. Idea implementation.

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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. Portable Research: Observing Users on the Go – Nate Bolt As technology becomes increasingly portable, mobile, and ubiquitous, new challenges to traditional ethnographic user research arise. and “Why should I care?&#