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Innovation and creativity: the lasting competitive advantage

Jeffrey Phillips

While I was in Dubai I was speaking with an executive of a firm that reviewed intellectual property. 20 years ago the firm had hundreds of US lawyers on staff, but shifted these jobs to a large Indian location where hundreds of Indian engineers and lawyers reviewed intellectual property claims and patents. What needs to change?

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Transform Your Organization with Process Innovation

IdeaScale

Finding a better way of accomplishing necessary business tasks is low-risk, can lead to other types of innovations, and helps companies maintain and sharpen their competitive edge. The problem, particularly with startups, is that early workflows may not be efficient due to lack of resources or personnel.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Competition aside, both face opposing physical forces that must be overcome to win. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput.

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Unlocking the Future of Value Stream Management: 5 Key Insights from VSMC’s 2023 Report

Planview

The State of Value Stream Management Report 2023 , in particular, stands out due to its inclusivity, drawing data from respondents across various organizational sizes, ranging from nimble startups with 1-99 employees to massive enterprises boasting 50,000+ personnel.

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Telehealth and COVID-19: The Global Rise of Telehealth and Advances in Digital Health Technology in the Post COVID-19 World

Yet2

A study which reviewed insurance claims data from 2005-2017 from a large private U.S. Telehealth has become a useful and affordable option for those seeking primary care physicians’ opinions but who do not want to travel or to expose themselves to the negative elements of a doctor’s office, in or outside a hospital setting.

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8 External Innovation Sources You should know

ITONICS

In addition to a software that automatically evaluates and clusters all trend and technology information, a dedicated team of external trend and tech scouts can deliver a continuous flood of data. Software and consulting companies. Software and consulting companies that provide solutions and services for innovation management.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive. The platform environment is mostly characterized by a tension between collaboration and competition of the participating companies, often referred to as coopetition. Cases in point: Lego and Burberry.