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Learning 5 Innovation Strategy Lessons as an Entrepreneur

BrainZooming

I’ll admit it: my views on innovation strategy have been dramatically shaped by working in a Fortune 500 corporation. Given that, moving to an entrepreneurial environment in 2009 was new territory when it came to learning innovation strategy lessons. 5 Innovation Strategy Lessons Learned as an Entrepreneur.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? But how much time would it have taken?

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Five Benefits of a Diverse Innovation Team

IdeaScale

Diversity and inclusion are good ideas on many levels, but they can also drive your innovation strategy. Diversity Stops Embarrassment In 2009, HSBC launched a campaign with the slogan “Assume Nothing.” To learn more about diversity in innovation, download our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper.

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Innovation and the rapidly changing world of photography

Jeffrey Phillips

This of course follows on Kodak's decision to stop manufacturing film for most cameras, which occurred in 2009. And here's an interesting point about both innovation and strategy. Strategy can either inform innovation or it can limit innovation. Canon was concerned about capturing and reproducing images.

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InnovationOps: the Next Evolution of Innovation Management

Innov8rs

He advises executives on how to be more successful in innovation and execution of strategies such as sustainability. Those units aren’t aligned nor working together to deliver upon the strategies, and there’s limited governance of the processes from start to finish and hardly any suitable tools to manage those processes.

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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. Organizations should make changes in their strategy, governance, engagement, and incentives.

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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. So which one is it? Part 2: A Messenger Ascends.