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2010-07-02T23:49:01.283-04:00

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Another reference: Use the Downturn to Your Advant...

2009-08-15T13:01:49.049-04:00

Another reference: Use the Downturn to Your Advantage
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/baldoni/2009/08/use_the_downturn_to_your_advan.html

- "Make tough choices. Now is the time to get rid of anything and everything that does not add value to the bottom line.

- Look for the up and comers. When times are flat or in a downturn, look for new ideas.

- Live resilience. This is the first significant downturn that younger employees have faced."

Here a reference about Innovation also: http://blo...

2009-08-12T12:56:08.585-04:00

Here a reference about Innovation also:
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/bigshift/2009/04/four-ways-to-spur-innovation-a.html

"At minimal cost to SAP--relative to push models--SAP harnessed the collective power of hundreds of thousands of talented individuals to help achieve the company's strategic goals. In effect, Shai Agassi was "pulling from the top" to increase the rate at which SAP could learn, innovate, and perform.

How can other institutional leaders follow suit to foster the emergence of creation spaces and collaboration curves? Here are four broad suggestions:

1. Re-frame the institutional challenge and opportunity.
2. Identify and mobilize passionate individuals.
3. Re-orient institutional activities.
4. Embrace new forms of information technology. "

Here another reference to read: http://blogs.harva...

2009-08-12T12:32:41.343-04:00

Here another reference to read:
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/05/unnovation.html

"Most innovation, well, isn't: it is "unnovation," or innovation that fails to create authentic, meaningful value. The biggest stumbling block to innovation is unnovation: most companies are too busy unnovating to ever learn how to truly innovate."