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Best Practices are Stupid

Stephen Shapiro

On April 20, 2010, the environment was dealt a horrific blow. For a company that stood to lose billions of dollars in cleanup costs, relief payouts, and lost sales due to bad publicity, this approach might indeed have been a good strategy. In fact, I’ll teach you why the key to innovating successfully involves innovating efficiently.

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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. In 2010 – a time when many fashion companies were still reeling from the economic crisis – Hermès opened its first and only men’s store on Madison Avenue.

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Going Lean, Again

etventure

I complimented the team on how calm the assembly line seemed to run – and how clean the workshop looked. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.” An Expensive Blind Spot. I thought a lot about what I saw and heard that day.

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Overcome resistance and capture growth in the Financial Services Industry

Innovation 360 Group

“Companies that master the delicate balance between cutting costs to survive today and investing to grow tomorrow do well after a <downturn>” HBR 2010. Dealing with uncertainty demands innovative ideas. Often agile development initiatives are not ‘agile’ at all. Perhaps the risk isn’t lower after all.

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

Open Innovation EU

The entrepreneur is an innovator and disturbs the economy (De Jong & Marsili, 2010; Schumpeter, 1934). Whereas causation is more oriented at a managerial, Kirznerian, perspective on entrepreneurship, effectuation is oriented at a more experimenting, Schumpeterian, perspective on entrepreneurship (De Jong & Marsili, 2010).