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How to Manage Complexity in Strategy

Cascade Strategy

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? Take strategic planning for example, imagine you poured hours into crafting a thorough and detailed strategic plan in 2007.

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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. The long-horizon projects are the first to go and this leads to an unbalanced innovation portfolio.

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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 Personality of a Business: More Than Just a Brand Image

Tullio Siragusa

Case Study: Airbnb’s Personality Shift and Rebranding Background: Founded in 2008, Airbnb started as a platform that allowed homeowners to rent out their spaces to travelers. Implement & Evolve Implement your strategies. Periodically revisit your strategies, ensuring they align with your brand personality.

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Five Leadership Qualities that Motivate Others During a Crisis

CMOE

You could argue that in these times everyone in the organization needs to demonstrate leadership as enterprises adapt their strategies, business models, and operating systems to rapid change. Five strategies that inspire great work during a crisis. Empower them to lead projects and make decisions within their capabilities and talent.

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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]

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Case study of agile and UCD working together

Boxes and Arrows

People make or break any project. The brief In 2008, we were tasked with resurrecting a tired, old, and ineffective site. The new site was considered as an entirely new project with a separate budget and scheduled into longer term. The boundary spanner needs to be aware of the individual issues the project faces.