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IDEA 2008

Boxes and Arrows

37signals’ products do less than the competition—intentionally. Information in Space – Elliott Malkin Artists and Information Architect Elliott Malkin discusses his new media projects installed in public space. 37signals’ products include Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, Campfire, Ta-da List, and Writeboard.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Innovators are forced to give up on initiatives, projects, and resources. In this context, innovators wonder how to get ideas across, how to continue projects, what back-up solutions to find and how to keep innovation afloat. Why shouldn’t you just give up on innovation when times are tough?

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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. It’s estimated that a loss of more than $2 trillion in world-wide economic growth occurred between the second quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009.

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Hacking Citizen Engagement – presented by Deloitte Pixel and Singularity University’s Global Summit

Betterific

We’re really excited to announce our newest innovation competition centered around hacking civic engagement. In a first for Betterific, we are also partnering with TopCoder to develop the best ideas that are submitted through the competition. Let’s involve more people with civic projects and the law-making process.

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Designing for Meaningful Social Interactions

Boxes and Arrows

Stackoverflow arrived on the scene in 2008 and solved the hostile environment brilliantly by applying gamification methods to encourage constructive participation on their platform. Most people there are just commenting on design projects as a way to ask others to like their work.

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Workplace Conflict: Statistics That Reveal Its Cost

CMOE

For example, a 2008 international study by CPP Global (the publisher of the Myers-Briggs Assessment) defined conflict as “any workplace disagreement that disrupts the flow of work.” But notice that healthy, positive conflict can include: Competition that motivates people to work harder toward goals. 9%: The failure of projects.

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

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? Koppl, 2008; Lewin, 2011). Do they tolerate mistakes?