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Please, we need a different Innovation narrative

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation “fights” to attract resources, gain management attention or understand its difficulties in the time it takes, its potential risks and its need for a more ambitious and bold commitment of support. Often innovation activity frustrates senior management. It is knowledge-based and well-grounded.

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30-Year Perspective: Seven Traits of Successful Digital Marketers

Brunner

Thirty years ago, I was working as a software engineer and a systems analyst for an IT consulting company. Much of what we did was custom software development in nature and usually operations related. For instance, an early project I was given was to develop an inventory control software system for a consumer packaged goods company.

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What the Cannabis Business Needs in Order to Thrive

Business and Tech

Finding technology solutions that allow dispensary owners to focus on running their businesses effectively is key to succeeding as competition heats up in the industry. If clinicians cannot answer these basic questions, then they are certainly not equipped to guide their patients on the therapeutic use of cannabinoid-based products.

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Understanding innovation's past leads to incredible insight

Jeffrey Phillips

Other than the military and the emerging railroad business, there were few large organizations and even fewer models for how to build and manage a business. The 1960s through the 1990s were boom years (discounting the Oil embargo) mostly due to dividends we reaped from the investments in technology and the space race.

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The Secret Ingredient to Operational Excellence Success

Qmarkets

The whirlwind of discussion surrounding this subject includes terms such as Performance Excellence, Business Process Management, Process Improvement , Economic Efficiency, and Incremental Innovation just to name a few. While Scientific Management represented a significant development in management theory, it also had a bad side.

LEAN 49
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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

These two yahoo software engineers would go on to become the founders of Whatsapp. This is a prime example of why, when learning how to be innovative, it's crucial for companies to utilise the knowledge of their employees. Both of these examples shows how crucial an idea management platform can be in the pursuit of success.

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The Secret Ingredient to Operational Excellence Success

Qmarkets

The whirlwind of discussion surrounding this subject includes terms such as Performance Excellence, Business Process Management, Process Improvement , Economic Efficiency, and Incremental Innovation just to name a few. While Scientific Management represented a significant development in management theory, it also had a bad side.

LEAN 40