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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

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”. To gain that all-important edge, it’s advisable to survey the marketplace – through crowdsourcing projects, ?

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IDEA 2008

Boxes and Arrows

Where work processes have become so involved, and so digitized, that we need new processes to manage those processes. Information in Space – Elliott Malkin Artists and Information Architect Elliott Malkin discusses his new media projects installed in public space. —from the “IDEA Vision Statement&# :[link].

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IDEA 2008: An Interview with Bill DeRouchey

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2008 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. I had been an information architect working strictly on web projects from 2000-2004, either within an agency or as a consultant, respectively before and after the tech collapse. So I had many angles on "tech."

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How to Manage Complexity in Strategy

Cascade Strategy

The thing is, there isn’t always a definitive solution, rather, some problems require continuous management. Next thing you know, the recession in 2008 rolls around and your revenue gets cut in half… Is your thorough strategic plan with all its detailed projects and goals still viable?

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

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. Innovators are forced to give up on initiatives, projects, and resources.

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IDEA 2008: An Interview with Elliott Malkin

Boxes and Arrows

Part family history, part science project, part home-movie, his projects span genres that, initially, seem incidental. Taking on the invisible and the imagined, his projects invite viewers to imagine things that operate beyond their perception. How does this project fit within the larger evolution of your work, if at all?

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Alignment Diagrams

Boxes and Arrows

Indi Young developed this technique and detailed it in her book Mental Models (Rosenfeld Media, 2008) [2]. Often designers aren’t called in until after a project is already set up. Alignment diagrams, however, really need to impact decisions much earlier in the process—before a project even starts. Footnotes. [1]