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2024: A Pivotal Year

Digital Tonto

In 2009, it felt like the world was ending. GDP would fall by 14% and the ad market, which fueled the media business I ran, fell by 85%. In 2009 I started my blog, Digital Tonto, which turned my life in a new direction. I was still living in Ukraine then and the financial crisis hit there especially hard.

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Origin Story: How IdeaScale Grew from a Simple Idea to a Leading Idea Management Company

IdeaScale

IdeaScale provides this space with a cloud idea management platform that has helped businesses and customers connect in a way that is truly engaging. IdeaScale was launched in 2009 by founders Vivek Bhaskaran, Jessica Day, Josh Folk and Rob Hoehn. Those ideas then become public policies, products, marketing campaigns, and much more.

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The Next Supply-Chain Challenge Isn’t a Shortage — It’s Inventory Glut

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, the financial crash left manufacturers with excess inventory when consumer buying power suddenly dropped. And now, the high-tech industry is feeling the weight of a volatile market that has led to excess component inventory. Inventory challenges aren’t new. Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst.

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InnovationOps: the Next Evolution of Innovation Management

Innov8rs

Not in terms of failing fast during experimentation, but failing after launch in the market. Paul navigates the technology landscape for both Sopheon and its customers and identifies the business values linked to investments in innovation management systems and processes. On average 35% to 50% of innovations fail.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

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

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Crowdsourced Innovation: Three Things I Learned

IdeaScale

During my first two weeks as a Marketing Intern for IdeaScale, I learned about how the business world operates, particularly how an organization uses crowdsourced innovation with tools such as IdeaScale. This means that companies need to continuously innovate if they want to remain competitive in the market.

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What Somalia’s Impending Famine Teaches Us About Addressing Donor Fatigue

Christensen Institute

In 2009 , for example, fears that Islamist insurgent Al-Shabaab was benefiting from the influx of food aid led the U.S As I explored in my recent blog , development should focus on creating markets that will pull in the resources needed to create sustainable economic growth. It creates prosperity and thus combats donor fatigue.

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