Posts Tagged ‘increasing productivity’

Recession and Innovation

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

In challenging economic times, there is a natural tendency to retrench.  Rather than investing in innovation, corporate decision-makers look for ways to cut costs and stretch resources.  After all, if there isn’t a good likelihood that innovation will yield substantial new revenue in the near term, why invest in it?

I would like to suggest a few reasons why such investment is not only wise, but actually essential in our current business climate—especially when it comes to Information Optimization (IO).

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