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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

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You may have heard that Europe is in a state of crisis. The crisis we speak of has even more severe consequences for Europe’s global competitiveness. and China take the lead in tech innovation. Telecommunications, marketplace platforms, payment services, and postal and logistics systems are balkanized. billion).

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The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable

Harvard Business Review

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

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The land reforms triggered a series of events that spiraled into a major economic crisis and caused formal unemployment to soar to 90%. Zimbabwe’s largest telecommunication company Econet Wireless has found success with its online payment platform that helps Zimbabweans manage the challenges of its multi-currency system.

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How CMOs and CROs Can Be Allies

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But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. Use risk data as an avenue for innovation. The ability to offer financing gave the technology vendor a point of differentiation that helped it beat its revenue projection for the year.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

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In turn, reflection becomes the rocket fuel for experimentation, the lifeblood of high-level innovation, the spark of deeper meaning, and the wellspring of enduring purpose. If youre here to "innovate" sugar water, then thinking in terms of orthodox buyers and suppliers might do the trick. So throw Frederick W.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

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and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding. Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. Economists and finance.