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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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Case study of agile and UCD working together

Boxes and Arrows

Large scale websites require groups of specialists to design and develop a product that will be a commercial success. To develop a completely new site requires several teams to collaborate and this can be difficult. Particularly as different teams may be working with different methods. People make or break any project.

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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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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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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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Alignment Diagrams

Boxes and Arrows

Bad experience. Indi Young developed this technique and detailed it in her book Mental Models (Rosenfeld Media, 2008) [2]. For designers in internal teams, you may have access to managers, product owners and other executives who could benefit from alignment diagrams at a strategic level. None of it seemed coordinated.

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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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