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The Villains Who Fight Change |
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Monday, 29 June 2009 00:00 |
 | Â THE VILLAINS WHO FIGHT CHANGEIt is an ancient tale, going back to the dawn of time a power struggle between those that drive change, and those that get in the way. All businesses need to innovate, but often œcreativity is
confused with œinnovation.
Niek du Preez, chief executive officer of business engineers Indutech, presents a ïeld guide to the
innovation super-beings that you know very well you meet them every day at the ofïce.
Is one of them you? |
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Wednesday, 08 April 2009 00:00 |
 | How ready is your company to innovate? You could be fooling yourself - or maybe the spirit is willing but the organisation is weak. Most companies see themselves as creative and pioneering, but often systems and culture actually favour entrenching the status quo. Great new ideas can die because there is no place to take root and grow.
Take a quick Cosmo quiz to see how innovative you really are, and find out where you can improve. A great idea is not innovation until it makes a bottom-line and
persistent difference to your business.
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Innovation in the Downturn |
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Monday, 30 March 2009 00:00 |
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The economic downturn provides an excellent opportunity for organisations to exploit their idle resources to maximise their innovation efforts.
This is the time for an organisation to assess their innovation capabilities and to reposition them for when the economic tides will change.
This slideshow shares how to determine your innovation capability, and what to do in these times with regards to being innovative. |
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Niek du Preez talks about Innovating in the Downturn |
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Monday, 16 March 2009 00:00 |
 | Niek du Preez, CEO of Indutech talks about Innovating in the Downturn at Afrivate on Thursday 26 March 2009.
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The Dualities of Innovation |
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Wednesday, 11 March 2009 11:04 |
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Proper innovation management is a concept which rarely bears the successful fruit of the effort put into it. Â This can be contributed towards two factors - uncertainty and complexity. This slideshow elaborates on the complexity factor by discussing four dualities which makes innovation management difficult.
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Bernard Katz talks about ICA on Classic FM |
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Friday, 14 November 2008 20:43 |
 | Indutech Business Engineering Services Manager, Bernard Katz, talks to Reuben Goldberg on Classic FM as part of the "Internet Economy" show. Bernard introduces the ICA tool and discusses Innovation challenges on various fronts in a difficult market.
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Businesses urged to hang on |
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Friday, 31 October 2008 20:48 |
 | "As the Rand struggles to recover from the assault by first world currencies, a local business consulting company has warned that the worst thing struggling businesses can do ... is fire their qualified workers."
CEO Niek Du Preez on KFM. | |
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Indutech launches a benchmark tool for SA business |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 20:44 |
 | Indutech launches free online innovation assessment tool to measure how fit and ready South African companies really are to innovate. The tool, gives business people a dose of reality that lets them know if they are truly moving their business in new directions, or just polishing the knobs.
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