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How To Lead Through Crisis

Innovation Excellence

That’s certainly how it felt to me in November, 2008, when I was leading a media company in Kyiv. By that time, the financial crisis was going full throttle, although things had been relatively calm in our market. As if the real news isn’t bad enough, unimaginably crazy stories start getting passed around. Really bad.

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Now’s the perfect time to plot a course for the future

Innovation 360 Group

With our on-line assessment tool InnoSurvey®, your team provides input remotely to generate a benchmark of your organization’s capabilities. Get the right team ‘on the bus’. Bring new ventures to market faster. It highlights your strengths and weaknesses relative to the patterns exhibited by global innovation leaders.

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Business Model Scalability: Internal vs External

The BMI Lab Blog

When I co-founded the online ebook platform PaperC back in 2008, I made an interesting discovery. Ten years ago, "old business" dominated the ranking of the most valuable companies in terms of market capitalization with PetroChina on the top, followed by Exxon and General Electric. customers, market and regulations).

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Why Activists Succeed – and Will Change Yahoo

Adam Hartung

He pushed the board to shut down expensive R&D and product development to improve short-term earnings. Many big investors say that activists are the only way shareholders can do anything about lousy management teams that fail to deliver, and Boards of Directors that let management be lazy and ineffective. Which takes us to Yahoo.

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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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The enemy is already within. The flood gates are open. Can GE recover?

Paul Hobcraft

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. More of his businesses were far more vulnerable than he realized to the changes taking place in theie markets.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co.