Qmarkets

JANUARY 21, 2020

job losses skyrocketed during the peak recession years 2008-2010 Given the devastating impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis, it’s little wonder that companies worldwide are sensitive to omens of a new “great recession”. During the 2008 financial meltdown, the coffee shop giant launched its “My Starbucks Idea” platform.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 14, 2008

As IDEA 2008 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. But that weekend seriously changed my career because I got to meet 40 incredible people, many of which I now consider friends. For this interview, I was fortunate to draw Bill DeRouchey’s name.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 7, 2017

I have two established businesses, one started in 2000 and one in 2008. These site includes our thoughts on what makes up innovation ecosystems and the changes these can offer us in innovation opportunity. I thought I’d outline the six here in this post as the sum of the parts that contributes to the whole.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2019

The “travel-tech” sector has attracted over $19B+ since 2008. Some of these start-ups are fast becoming the next big thing: TripActions : TripActions is a corporate travel management company which recently raised $154 million in VC funding at a $1 billion valuation.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

As IDEA 2008 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. Millennium Park for example is a great example of a space that’s changed the face of Chicago. Where work processes have become so involved, and so digitized, that we need new processes to manage those processes.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Managing cash, balancing this out with your liabilities and obligations, knowing your market dynamics, and equally, having a good understanding of where the future growth lies, are all essential for managing any healthy business. These disciplines and skills burnish your reputation and are the bedrock of good corporate management.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 6, 2023

This dichotomy delivered by the financial pressure is unfortunately pushing many leaders and top managers towards suboptimal decisions that tend to focus more on survival and not enough on investing in the future. For example, Delta Air Lines, one of the leading airlines, managed to get back to their leading position even after bankruptcy.

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BrainZooming

MAY 19, 2017

Titles change; it’s a fact of Western business life. But in this space, that’s not all that’s changed. We’re managing SEO and Google Analytics, editing images and graphics in PhotoShop and InDesign, sending and tracking emails via a CMS or two. Things have changed, and that means we have to change.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 12, 2020

For example, during the 2008-09 financial crisis, most companies cut their technology budgets by 20-30%. I recently heard of a large organization that managed to save huge amounts of money simply by switching to a less expensive brand of toilet paper in all of their hundreds of locations. And remember that speed is of the essence.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 21, 2020

Remember that the Millennials were leaving college during the 2008-2010 financial recession, so many ended up with jobs and paychecks that were less valuable and less challenging than they may have deserved. Just as they gain real traction in their careers, COVID introduces another setback.

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Adam Hartung

MARCH 30, 2016

It is not shy about seeking action at the Board level to change the direction of a company – by changing the CEO, seeking downsizings and reogranizations, changing dividend policy, seeking share buybacks, recommending asset sales, or changing other resource allocations. Activists have been around a long time.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Indi Young developed this technique and detailed it in her book Mental Models (Rosenfeld Media, 2008) [2]. When communicated to decision makers, this can have real business impact by changing the focus from how products are made to the experience customers have. Find a champion in management. Who Creates Alignment Diagrams?

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 30, 2010

The brief In 2008, we were tasked with resurrecting a tired, old, and ineffective site. To bring these teams and disparate elements together requires a launch manager or ‘boundary spanner’ Rizal Sebastian wrote about boundary spanners in Design Issues in 2005 1. People make or break any project.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 23, 2023

For many people, it evokes brands that created something so new that it changed the way we interact with certain products or services forever: Uber. Having a single dedicated tool to manage all this will inevitably save you huge amounts of time and effort, and lead to better outcomes.

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Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

In the Schumpetarian view, opportunities arise from the internal willingness to change the industry. Therefore, entrepreneurs should not learn from large corporations’ best cases on (innovation) management, but learn entrepreneurial thinking in a more Schumpeterian way. Are managers prepared to allow experimentation? Lans et al.

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Values Centered Innovation

MARCH 19, 2020

Our habitual sources of entertainment, access to healthcare, ways of working, supply chain management… all put aside. That means the opportunity for innovative change is both ripe and necessary. Now is not the time for business to sit on the innovation sidelines.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 25, 2018

General Management. Innovation Management. Strategic Change. In the Private Sector, he’s been a pioneer Consultant and founder—associate of several Data, Software and Business, and IT initiatives. He’s passionate about music and Hispanic literature. Area of expertise: Strategy. Design Thinking. Geointelligence.

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Innovation 360

JUNE 26, 2018

General Management. Innovation Management. Strategic Change. In the Private Sector, he’s been a pioneer Consultant and founder—associate of several Data, Software and Business, and IT initiatives. He’s passionate about music and Hispanic literature. Area of expertise: Strategy. Design Thinking. Geointelligence.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2020

That’s certainly how it felt to me in November, 2008, when I was leading a media company in Kyiv. In many ways, our business never really recovered, but the lessons I learned while managing through it will last a lifetime. That all changed in November though, when ad sales, our primary source of revenue, dropped precipitously.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

From managing remote workers, to internal communications dominated by video platforms, to the devastation of small business buyers and consumer budgets, the ‘new normal’ would have been barely recognizable at the beginning of 2020. The very structure, processes, and the way we manage people inside society’s institutions are changing.”.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 12, 2009

Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design Register or Log In Search Stories Ideas Forums People Events Jobs About December Issue, 2008 Jens Jacobsen 32 Reputation points Jens likes writing for multimedia and loves tracking down usability issues. Walsh 31 Reputation points Posted 2008/09/21 @ 13:52PM with Really enjoyable article.

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The BMI Lab Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

However, very few managers are able to explain their company’s business model ad-hoc, and even fewer can define what a business model actually is in general. 2008), or, more simply, the value proposition (Teece 2010). Disruptive innovations are innovations that radically change existing structures and markets (Pisano, 2015).

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Stackoverflow arrived on the scene in 2008 and solved the hostile environment brilliantly by applying gamification methods to encourage constructive participation on their platform. We had terrific discussions with Instagram celebrities about how they manage their cooperation with brands. Then a weird thing happened.

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Norbert Bol

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The future impact of sustainability on real estate investments is expected to increase due to the visible effects of climate change, government regulation, tenant and user demand, benchmarking on sustainability performance and also by opportunities driven by technology. Investment opportunities and threats for offices.

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Cris Beswick

JUNE 22, 2023

As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, “a team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to information, resources, knowledge and skills and who seek to combine their efforts to achieve a common goal”. [1] References: [1] Thompson, Leigh (2008). 7: Total Quality Management”.

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Be-novative

JUNE 16, 2021

In 2020, the world changed. Dan Riley stated that organizations need to move beyond traditional employee engagement, performance management, and leadership development that happens only once a year. Managers have been shifting from an annual questionnaire towards doing virtual pulses and 1on1s weekly / biweekly / monthly.

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Commodore Innovation

APRIL 26, 2021

Christensen and colleagues 1 called them “innovation killers” in a 2008 HBR article and earlier work 2 highlights similar issues. Change the norms you benchmark against, not necessarily the metric. R&D Management , 27/4: pp. Financial metrics (e.g., Princeton University Press. Christensen, S.P. Kaufman, and W.C. and Cook, A.

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Boxes and Arrows

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Putting content at center stage means changing some of the fundamental ways we think about content in the design process and how it helps conversion. Users’ behaviors and habits change. If Google changes their algorithm, suddenly the traffic from organic search is different. 2008, December 16). Gualtieri, M. Halvorson, K.

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eZassi

MAY 27, 2022

CPG embraces constant change and ceaseless innovation to keep up with consumer demands while building brands customers rely on in their daily lives. How do the major companies’ research and development teams build and manage a portfolio of innovative products while ensuring long-term market success and consistent brand loyalty?

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Innovators Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

And its iPad was introduced during the 2008 downturn. But of course not all of our organizations are as flush with cash as Apple, which gives the company the luxury to invest in creating the future while managing through the uncertainties of the present.

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mjvinnovation

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Market conditions for financial service providers are changing more and more rapidly. The 2008 financial crisis was decisive. Numerous experts point to the 2008 global financial crisis as an epicenter. Fintechs arrive to change the game. In this way, they absorb knowledge and manage to innovate even further.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

Google went public 10 years ago today, and since then has dramatically changed the way the world accesses information. It has also helped shape the practice of management. How Google manages. If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management.

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ImagineNation

DECEMBER 5, 2018

I outlined some of my many mis adventurous occurring in the first ten years in the management consulting & learning & development space. From the second ten years 1998-2008. Mindsets are foundational to any change process. I also shared details describing my first three learning’s as a serial female entrepreneur.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 2, 2025

In a recent Innov8rs Learning Lab session, Sarah Thurber, Managing Partner at FourSight and co-author of Good Team Bad Team , explored the team dynamics and cultural forces that shape innovation efforts. Even strong, cohesive teams must operate within systems that often resist change.

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Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As a result, too much time and investment is spent on efforts at the periphery that have no link to value—and the opportunity to create true change within the companies is missed, once again.” (Accenture, Discover Where Value’s Hiding, 2018). Penker (2008-2011). Improve your innovation ROI with “The Wheel of Innovation”.

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KindlingApp

AUGUST 19, 2015

Traditionally, many organizations have relied on the tried and true methods applied to project management, commonly referred to as stage-gate process: a process whereby each stage or phase of a project is managed independently, and the project only progresses to each successive stage after clearing the last. DDP vs. Stage-Gate.

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Adam Hartung

AUGUST 16, 2015

One major finding is that the makeup of Boards is changing, for the betterment of investors – and most likely everyone else in business. Boards once had members that almost never changed. And there was nothing investors could do if a Board “checked out,” even in the face of poorly performing management.

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