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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. In the precarious economic climate, a global recession is an ever-present danger. But don’t panic just yet.

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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. They operate under the misguided belief that getting more ideas leads to better innovation.

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Overcome resistance and capture growth in the Financial Services Industry

Innovation 360 Group

. “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. Combatting uncertainty demands innovative ideas. Often agile development initiatives are not ‘agile’ at all.

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Going Lean, Again

etventure

I complimented the team on how calm the assembly line seemed to run – and how clean the workshop looked. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.” Secret Worries. The company was losing its technology leadership. Break the Rules.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

The entrepreneur is an innovator and disturbs the economy (De Jong & Marsili, 2010; Schumpeter, 1934). Whereas causation is more oriented at a managerial, Kirznerian, perspective on entrepreneurship, effectuation is oriented at a more experimenting, Schumpeterian, perspective on entrepreneurship (De Jong & Marsili, 2010).