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March 17, 2020

How your innovation team can survive a slowdown

Innovation teams are often the first casualty of a crisis when corporate budgets are slashed. Here are four techniques to avoid a cull.


Chris Locke

4 min read

As signs of economic slowdown are becoming impossible to ignore, corporate innovation teams will be getting nervous. So often these departments become the first casualty in a crisis when corporate budgets are being slashed.

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