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How Innovation Is Completely Different in Established Organizations than in Startups

Leading Blog

New startups appear out of nowhere and challenge not only established companies, but entire industries. Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing.

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Robots for Health Care from Toyota

Curious Cat

This increases the need for health care and for assistance with everyday tasks from the elderly. Japan is also among the leading countries for developing robots for health care and living assistance. This is difficult for companies to pull of successfully. Japan has an extremely rapidly aging population.

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The Flexible Method: How to Survive and Thrive Through the Next Crisis

Leading Blog

They are more likely to do this if they are being valued and supported in a people-focused company.” Have the confidence to innovate, think, and experiment. Care For Your Team’s Mental Health. Mind Your Own Health. “For teams to be resilient, they have to feel it is worthwhile to make the effort to be so.

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How to Matter: The 5 Key Ways Companies Win

Leading Blog

I N TODAY'S ECONOMY of volatility and velocity, the lifespan of a Fortune 500 company has plummeted from an average 50 years to a mere fifteen. When constant disruption is the new normal, how do companies succeed? Here are five key ways that winning companies stay on top: 1. Great companies recognize disruption and face it.

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For Whom Do We Innovate?

Mills Scofield

If you ever wondered about the power of innovation to radically change lives, wonder no more. For Whom Do We Innovate? As an engineer, I''m as enthusiastic about innovation as anyone. The sleek, frictionless future sold by our most successful tech-media companies says, "You deserve better than to lift a finger."

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How to Win in Africa

Leading Blog

Authors Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga and Georges Desvaux of McKinsey and Company, take a different view in Africa’s Business Revolution. There are one-hundred companies with annual revenues of a billion dollars or more. In the next 20 years, 80 percent of its population growth will occur in cities. And technology?

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World Innovation Forum - Clay Christensen

CEO Blog

Today I am blogging live at World Innovation Forum (#WIF11). Attending and listening to speakers helps plant the seeds of innovation in my mind. Of course he spoke about disruptive innovation. Disruptive innovation often happens at the low end of the market. A good company ends up weaker and a new one takes over.