Tag: Innovation
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Empowering Small Enterprises with Lean Manufacturing: Achieving Autonomy, Innovation, and Competitiveness
Unlocking autonomy through Lean manufacturing Lean Manufacturing isn’t just about efficiency; it’s about finding the best way to do things. It’s like a secret recipe that saves money, improves quality, and makes customers really happy. That means spending less, making fewer mistakes, and winning people over. Lean Manufacturing, often linked to big industries, has something…
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The secrets to building a successful team?
How to harness the power of cognitive diversity in teams You may have heard of the DISC (Red, Blue, Green, Yellow) or Hermann (Left, Right, Brain, Lymbic) psychological models and tests which are theories about individual preferences (1) (2). These tests are based on a simple idea: that each of us has a different way…
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The secrets of long-term innovation strategies of market leaders
Leading companies are increasingly adopting more social and environmental concerns in their long-term (2030-2050) corporate innovation strategies, such as employee well-being, humanism, carbon neutrality, and sustainable development goals. “We have the capacity to create a remarkably different economy: one that can restore ecosystems and protect the environment while bringing forth innovation, prosperity, meaningful work, and…
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Lean strategies for SMEs
How SMEs can boost their agility and innovation with Lean strategies Agility is not a goal in itself, but a result of continuous improvement. Innovation is not a random event, but a disciplined process. For small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that face fierce competition and limited resources, these two principles are essential for survival and…
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Agile strategy. Be flexible to embrace uncertainty and complexity.
With accelerated globalization and the hyper-connectivity of the economy, businesses, especially SMEs, now have to contend with global competition and increasing technological complexity. Being creative, innovative while being able to simplify their processes allows the most agile companies to manage their strategies more effectively and to export better, further and faster. According to Séverin Legras…
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Crises, a catalyst for change and innovation.
Schumpeter’s creative destruction theory. Beyond the need to adapt the management of organizations to the threats of crises, Joseph Schumpeter showed us that these periods of transformation are above all conducive to innovation. Toyota’s organizational model, itself born at the end of the Second World War in a devastated Japan, is one of the most…
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Introduction to crisis strategic transformation
Leaders have to deal with strategic management in times of crisis. Current company strategies emphasize the use of continuous improvement, lean management, as a key success factor. They seek to mitigate the threats associated with the crisis. They are also looking for a relevant management control tool to measure the impact of continuous improvement actions.…
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The Reason-based choice method for export
A unique marketing approach and methodology had been developped based on 3 fundamental axes. This method, called the Reason-based Choice method, allows to minimize as much as possible the risk-taking inherent in a strategy of differentiation through innovation. It enable managers to make the most effective choices. Differenciate differentiation and innovation. Innovation is one of…
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Techniques for developing a successful international strategic positioning.
What is a strategy ? It is the art of coordinating the action of all the forces to achieve an objective. Think about the advantages that will give your offer a credible, different and attractive position in export markets and in the minds of your customers. Analyze your strategic positioning The positioning will be associated…
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Export. Reasons for failure.
Business failure Financial failure Technical failure Human failure “Failure is an option here. If you’re not failing, you’re not innovating enough.” Elon Musk
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