Sentences with phrase «business innovation despite»

OTTAWA — The Conference Board says Canada has been spinning its wheels in the critical area of business innovation despite a decade of trying.

Not exact matches

Hearty laughter greeted the innovation and echoed through the winter, so loudly that Wrigley last month released to the press a 21 - page booklet explaining in detail the club's new philosophy (everything will be directed towards developing better players), comparing it to modern business - management ideas (IBM computers have replaced blackboards), defending it (the Cubs have not been out of the second division in 14 years despite their use «of every type of manager from inspirational leader to slave driver»), and chiding the press for its sarcastic criticism of the experiment.

Despite huge opposition, Selfridge built his store to be a new model for the industry — he literally redefined certain aspects of the business, including such innovations as moving the perfume counter out onto the main floor of the store, and encouraging shoppers to browse rather than forcing them to either buy or get out.

The problem is that corporate publishers (particular the five in question here) clung to a business model despite innovations that could have helped lower their costs.

Despite his original career as a train conductor, Drake would eventually be regarded as being responsible for revolutionizing the fledgling «rock oil» business with his game - changing innovation: the oil drill.

I also wonder if the existing model isn't more powerful than it appears since there is clearly room for business structure innovation despite limited actual innovation.

You may find it comforting to know that, despite all the talk about innovation and disruption in the business of law, some of the long - standing tactics of legal marketing and business development remain effective.

The department for business, innovation and skills followed up with a press release earlier this month repeating those seemingly damning stats and stating that, despite the low success rate, cases refused at the first stage in 2011 took an average of 83 days to be dealt with and cases which went through to a hearing took 275 days.