Last night Manchester Knowledge Capital hosted an event at Innospace on innovation – the presenter was Michael Cusumano from MIT. Michael presented the six enduring features of innovation – all of which can be found in his latest book, Staying Power. The talk was interesting, engaging and stemmed from many years of research into some of the most innovative businesses of our time. There are lessons to be learnt for businesses of all sizes about how you can focus on innovation as a core business activity – be flexible and think about scope, services and platforms of interlinked thought leadership and broad marketplace activity (i.e. not just products).
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