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

Qmarkets

However, by developing an innovation strategy that anticipates a downturn, you can help your enterprise weather the storm and even uncover lucrative ways to gain a competitive edge. Read on to discover how you can transform a recession into a rejuvenation. Improvise, adapt, and overcome” is a mantra coined by the U.S

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Creating the Persuasive Pattern card deck

Boxes and Arrows

Starting in 2010, the collection has now grown large and mature. Having documented useful psychological design principles, I was still struggling to put them to practice with my development teams. Reading up on scores of articles of somewhat complicated psychological concepts was an incomprehensible task for most team members.

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Best Practices are Stupid

Stephen Shapiro

On April 20, 2010, the environment was dealt a horrific blow. For a company that stood to lose billions of dollars in cleanup costs, relief payouts, and lost sales due to bad publicity, this approach might indeed have been a good strategy. Google reportedly lets its employees use 20 percent of their time to develop new ideas.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

I’m going to talk about how, in the 21st Century, we need ‘Goodness’ more than ‘Greatness’ when it comes to innovation. Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. The title of this piece is ‘Great to Good’. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. The question is “Why?”.

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Overcome resistance and capture growth in the Financial Services Industry

Innovation 360 Group

In this blog post we talk about receptivity to change in Financial Services and some thoughts on how to move forward. “Companies that master the delicate balance between cutting costs to survive today and investing to grow tomorrow do well after a <downturn>” HBR 2010. Dealing with uncertainty demands innovative ideas.

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

I’m going to talk about how, in the 21st Century, we need ‘Goodness’ more than ‘Greatness’ when it comes to innovation. Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. The title of this piece is ‘Great to Good’. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. The question is “Why?”