Innovation Blog

Flawed strategies put business recovery at risk as recession ends

Friday, March 12, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: New Business Models | Tags: innovation, financial, recession, entrepreneur, research, car, economist, New Business Models, business models, Alysoun Stewart

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Nearly two thirds (63%) of UK businesses are hamstrung by their own business models and unprepared for the recovery according to new research from leading financial and business advisers, Grant Thornton.

How is your business responding to the recession?

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10 ways to put business models on the board agenda

Thursday, March 11, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: New Business Models | Tags: financial, recession, research, strategy, New Business Models, Board, EIU, Economist, M%A

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Our research shows that most companies need to review, and possibly renew, their business models.

Here are some suggestions from our own experts on the areas that you might wish to table:

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Solar-powered bras, slump-time inventions and a 2010 events calendar – innovation roundup

Thursday, January 14, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Business, Environment, Healthcare, Technology | Tags: innovation, links, recession, patents, patent, teamwork, NHS, solar power

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Ingenious solar-powered designs, successful products from recessions past, radical innovation in the NHS, innovation events around the UK, and more – the Grant Thornton Innovation team aims to bring you the most popular business stories and useful links each month. Here’s what we’ve been reading…

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Nick Robertson, CEO ASOS plc: From recession to recovery through innovation

Thursday, November 12, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Business | Tags: innovation, recession, awards, National Business Awards, online, ASOS, Nick Robertson, Retail, Mid-Cap Business of the year

Find out what Nick Robertson, CEO of ASOS plc, winner of Grant Thornton’s Mid-Cap Business of the Year Award, thinks about the UK’s ability to recover from recession and how innovation will help us ‘work our way out of this recession’. Filmed interview courtesy of The National Business Awards.

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