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		<title>Why Innovation?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.steveshapiro.com">Business Innovation Speaker and Consultant Stephen Shapiro</a></p><p>Yes, innovation can help you develop new products. But it can also be a useful tool for helping you: recession-proof your business, reduce costs, increase service levels to customers, increase overall employee performance – and retention, and de-commoditize a commodity business.  Innovation can help your organization adapt, evolve and grow so that you don’t become [...]</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.steveshapiro.com">Business Innovation Speaker and Consultant Stephen Shapiro</a></p><p>Yes, innovation can help you develop new products. But it can also be a useful tool for helping you:</p>
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<li>recession-proof your business,</li>
<li>reduce costs,</li>
<li>increase service levels to customers,</li>
<li>increase overall employee performance – and retention, and</li>
<li>de-commoditize a commodity business. </li>
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<p>Innovation can help your organization adapt, evolve and grow so that you don’t become irrelevant. When the pace of change outside your organization is greater than the pace of change within, you will be out of business. </p>
<p>Please read our <a href="http://www.steveshapiro.com/books-and-articles/innovation-articles/" target="_self">innovation articles </a>and other resources to help you get started with your innovation efforts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.steveshapiro.com" target="_self">[Return to the home page]</a></p>
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