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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | As we seem to heading towards economic downturn, leaders find themselves trying to reduce costs and foster growth at the same time. We have seen this happening during the last economic crisis, when merely 10% of companies performed better at the end of the crisis than they did before it.

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Innovation & Strategy Conference: Driving Home Disruption

Yet2

The Innovation & Strategy Conference , held November 14 th in the hip-while-retro Innovation and Design Building in the Seaport area of Boston, offered attendees insights to corporate innovation from a wide variety of perspectives. Innovation groups need to show the rest of company that they are making progress.

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Building a Culture of Innovation

Fehmida Kapadia

We can take these pages from history and implement those lessons to build ecosystems of innovation and creativity. In his book Imagine How Creativity Works , John Lehrer has researched and documented these historical examples that created environments of innovation and creativity. Picasso Children create with abandon.

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How China Creates the Strongest Innovation System

The BMI Lab Blog

(This is the first in a series of two articles about innovation in China, where we share the insights gained from the research trip we made to China with some of BMI Lab’s clients in August 2017). Massive investments, a huge market and the hiring of worldwide talent has boosted the Chinese innovative ecosystem.

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

(Read WSJ ’s “Is a Peanut-Butter Pop-Tart an Innovation?” There are plenty of expert definitions of innovation out there. Companies are leaving no stone unturned in their attempts to drive innovation, be it radical, incremental, or breakthrough. The company encourages open innovation via Lego Ideas.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

New generations, societal change, sustainable goals and disruptive technology require organizations to be much more flexible, self-reinventing organisms that don’t fit above-mentioned design principles. They require openness, transparency, adaptability, co-creation, self-management and responsiveness. Steve Blank (1995).

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

It’s estimated that a loss of more than $2 trillion in world-wide economic growth occurred between the second quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009. In the interests of futureproofing your enterprise, it’s important to ensure your innovation strategy can accommodate the privations of turbulent economic times.