Innovation helps firm buck the recession

Copycats and ‘Me Too’ products [25 May 2012]
Epic fail: how to do really badly [15 May 2012]
Marketing analysis: the UK supermarket battleground [3 May 2012]
Technological change - manufacturing and innovation [20 Apr 2012]
Strategy - How Nokia was overtaken by Apple and Samsung [17 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Business & the Technological Environment [9 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Unemployment & Business [6 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Business Cycle and Economic Growth [6 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Retrenchment [4 Apr 2012]
Apple’s new CEO and a new iPad - A Change in Leadership [9 Mar 2012]
Pampering - demand booms as consumers seek an affordable treat [4 Mar 2012]
Start-ups - the Wooden Smartphone? [4 Mar 2012]
Pink bricks for girls?  Lego builds a new strategy [2 Mar 2012]
Economics for Business: Is an economic recovery underway? [28 Feb 2012]
Ideas not Hierarchy Makes a Business - Steve Jobs on Teamwork & Culture [13 Feb 2012]
Innovation in Business - Perspectives from Stephen Elop (CEO of Nokia) [12 Feb 2012]
Product innovation - extending the humble cupcake [10 Feb 2012]
The history of Apple’s product innovation - in 30 seconds [10 Feb 2012]
Private equity buyouts - Sunday Times supplement [5 Feb 2012]
Success for the Daily Mail’s online strategy [30 Jan 2012]
Leadership - Howard Schultz on the importance of leading an innovative culture [29 Jan 2012]
Strategic choice: What should Apple do for its investors? [29 Jan 2012]
Technological change: 3-D printing promises a new industrial revolution [28 Jan 2012]
Technological change: now you can have your own factory! [28 Jan 2012]
External influences: the threat that is China [22 Jan 2012]
What’s gone wrong for Kodak? [19 Jan 2012]
Business size and the innovation debate [11 Jan 2012]
Revision Presentation - Innovation [2 Jan 2012]
Business Innovation - where do good ideas come from? [2 Jan 2012]
Investment in People - Google and Human Capital [26 Dec 2011]
Strategies to revive the High Street: Mary Portas reports [13 Dec 2011]
A trip down memory lane for a great business studies resource [3 Nov 2011]
Technology and Business - Microsoft’s vision of the mobile future is astounding (video) [28 Oct 2011]
Batten down the hatches - strategies for the next downturn [24 Oct 2011]
Strategy case study - does Microsoft have a long-term strategy? [21 Oct 2011]
How PepsiCo are trying to control diseconomies of scale [18 Oct 2011]
Pining for Success - Heston’s mince pie innovation [13 Oct 2011]
Shoppers switch stores as income patterns change [11 Oct 2011]
Ansoff and the Boston Matrix can’t help Kodak [6 Oct 2011]
Invention in a Bottle [28 Sep 2011]
Insights on invention from Trevor Bayliss [14 Sep 2011]
Can investment in R&D provide a competitive advantage? [31 Aug 2011]
Where there’s muck there’s brass [6 Jul 2011]
Innovation and Persistence holds the Key for King of Shaves [4 Jul 2011]
Evan Davis ‘Made in Britain’ - and a new trade data tool to play with [21 Jun 2011]
The Chocolate Business Angel’s Views on Entrepreneurs [21 Jun 2011]
Technology & innovation - extending the humble contact lense [9 Jun 2011]
Organic growth strategy - the benefits if firms “believe in better” [24 May 2011]
Jaguar goes for NPD investment with £5bn plan [10 May 2011]
Is the golf business coming out of the bunker? [7 Apr 2011]
Recession?  Hair today, gone tomorrow [6 Apr 2011]
The UK Economy - Economic Growth GDP [15 Mar 2011]
The UK Economy - Unemployment [13 Mar 2011]
The Profit Margin Bloodbath of UK Recession [6 Mar 2011]
Michael Porter - Shared Value and the Limitations of CSR [15 Feb 2011]
An idea that’s a lot of hot air…. [11 Jan 2011]
Innovation and ideas - what makes a successful business concept? [8 Jan 2011]
Video case study - Harris Tweed prospers through innovation and international expansion [29 Dec 2010]
Innovation and Invention - the Toy Story [23 Dec 2010]
Innovative ice breakers to fill a market gap [2 Dec 2010]
Dominos Pizza - Growth & Strategy (Part 2) - Innovation, Service and Smart Operations [26 Nov 2010]
Euro Disney - an HRM & Finance Nightmare? [24 Nov 2010]
Recession-proof production at Fiat [20 Nov 2010]
JCB - A Great Case Study for Business Students [19 Nov 2010]
Cash flow Clue-doh! The Mystery is Revealed… [2 Nov 2010]
Start-ups - a surge in new businesses post recession [2 Nov 2010]
Strategy - The Challenges Facing Nokia [21 Oct 2010]
Google, Profits and Diversification [16 Oct 2010]
Google on the changing face of advertising [8 Oct 2010]
Who ate all the pies? [17 Sep 2010]
Businesses prepare for the double-dip [13 Sep 2010]
Can small firms shrug off their recession trauma? [2 Sep 2010]
A beginners guide to GDP [30 Aug 2010]
Recession Strategy - Manufacturing Emerges Leaner and Fitter [25 Aug 2010]
The technological wave in television - who will win the 3D battle? [30 Jul 2010]
Does Nokia’s Strategy Need An Upgraded CEO? [30 Jul 2010]
Nissan profits from a recovery in demand [30 Jul 2010]
Retail banking through the ages - a pictoral guide [29 Jul 2010]
Sony’s Product Development Timeline [13 Jul 2010]
Dark days for the UK nightclub market [21 Jun 2010]
Emerging Stronger - How UK Businesses Responded to the Recession [14 Jun 2010]
BUSS4 Recession Strategies - The Crucial Role of the Business Model [6 Jun 2010]
BUSS4 - Recession Strategy Lessons from Four Female Entrepreneurs [6 Jun 2010]
Emerging from Recession - Manufacturing Leads the Way [1 Jun 2010]
Some facinating data on research & development data at Apple, Google & Microsoft [25 May 2010]
Strategy Case Study - Vauxhall/Opel restructuring [24 May 2010]
BUSS4 UK Recession - Data Burn [15 May 2010]
Profit seeking paradoxes in an oblique world [15 May 2010]
Container shipping: the greatest business innovation of the 20th Century? [11 May 2010]
Book wars! [5 May 2010]
UK Recession - Hotels Suffer Despite the Trend towards Staycations [3 May 2010]
Why Coffee Shops did so well during the UK Recession [25 Apr 2010]
A good example to use when explaining what firms do as they come out of a recession [22 Apr 2010]
Starbucks - the Famous Strategic Change Memo from 2007 [21 Apr 2010]
Girl Power [12 Apr 2010]
Recession Survival Strategies Cost UK SMEs £16bn [31 Mar 2010]
UK Recession - What Happened to Redundancies? [30 Mar 2010]
Unilever in the recession - the CEO on strategy [25 Mar 2010]
How firms can make the most of the recovery [20 Mar 2010]
Wipeout Challenge - UK Recession [15 Mar 2010]