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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. 2009, stating: “the vast majority of real-life entrepreneurs around the world aren’t innovators.

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Why World Water Day should focus on more than just water

Christensen Institute

Understanding how push and pull strategies differ provides a clue as to why this happens and how to solve the water problem once and for all. So, until a different strategy is employed, water stakeholders will continue to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on water projects that don’t solve the water problem.

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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. Nikon is a crown jewel of Japanese engineering and imaging technology, and yet a lack of diversity resulted in a camera Japanese people couldn’t use. Many voices lead to stronger teams.?. Diversity Spots Problems.

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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. The rapid advance of technology Both Canon's exit and Kodak's exit from film are examples of the ever-accelerating pace of technology. And here's an interesting point about both innovation and strategy.

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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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Choosing the right strategy handling uncertainty

Innovation 360 Group

In H2, the strategy is not to understand and respond to the market, but instead to understand needs and use technology in new ways. It’s also here you find a lot of brave innovations driven by high ambitions and technology (decoding the Enigma, going to the moon, and developing tanks). processes) and externally (e.g.

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Choosing the right strategy handling uncertainty

Innovation 360

In H2, the strategy is not to understand and respond to the market, but instead to understand needs and use technology in new ways. It’s also here you find a lot of brave innovations driven by high ambitions and technology (decoding the Enigma, going to the moon, and developing tanks). processes) and externally (e.g.