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8 Types of Innovation in Business: A Comprehensive Guide

Qmarkets

Radical & Disruptive Innovation On the flip side, radical and disruptive innovation challenges the status quo by introducing new concepts, products, or models that shift market dynamics. Radical innovation is about making significant leaps forward, often creating new industries or reshaping existing ones.

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The power of agile innovation

Wazoku

Google understands that an innovator wants to see his/her idea all the way through to completion. Incremental innovation over radical innovation. There is a growing trend across businesses towards rapid, low-risk innovations. Innovation agility enables reduced times to market.

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Knowing Your Innovation Pathway Curve – A methodology

Paul Hobcraft

When we build capability and capacity we cannot build this simply overnight, we need to systematically build this, partly depending on what you want to achieve; incremental, distinctive or radical innovation as these are a growing set of competencies to drive you up the innovation pathway.

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

Digital is demanding so much in new processes that need to be more agile, responsive, reflective of new insights at increased speed and fluid in the design of those undertaking the solution to react. This agility needs the tools of testing, feedback, and adaptation to accelerate the innovation process.

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We are searching for new pathways

Paul Hobcraft

It requires a radical redesign of the organization, as it significantly increases complexity and where any digital transformation has to center upon as the critical enabler to enable this shift. It is identifying the critical capabilities and being adept and agile enough in learning from these, to embed them into the changing culture.

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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

I would start by saying innovation should always be in “creative tension”, and as we operate and manage innovation, this tension should also apply within any design. The ability to manage innovation design, function, structure and process. Innovation needs to have a system that is constantly adaptive and flexible.

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Innovation needs the power of completing the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

We can build and connect different supply chains that read and react, we can create new ecosystems where we share a common goal and value, we can enable more agile systems that can adapt and respond to changes in real-time to reconfigure the ‘connected factory’. Innovation emerges out of the Industrial 4.0

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