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Innovation cannot expand without the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

To do this, technology adoption and diffusion across the ecosystem needs to improve dramatically. There is a strategic resistance, there is a lack of organizational agility and still not the level of commitment this is required, driven from the top. We are facing greater disruption and an increasing innovation pace.

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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.

Design 130
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Overcome resistance and capture growth in the Financial Services Industry

Innovation 360 Group

Our digital capabilities have been at the forefront due to the increase in the level of acceptance of digital and virtual interaction with our customers and their relative experience across business lines and geographies. Often agile development initiatives are not ‘agile’ at all. The importance of radical innovation.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

Reinvention through business model innovation. Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the perfusion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. Let’s remind: One size does not fit all.

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The New Innovation Need: Organizing within a Networks of Collaborators

Paul Hobcraft

Technology offers them the transforming means but can they, as leaders, take their people with them? It ‘upends’ much, if not all, of how our business organizations have been organized around, mostly within themselves needing radical change. Today larger organizations are having to face the stark truth. Either they adapt or die.

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The New Innovation Need: Organizing within a Networks of Collaborators

Paul Hobcraft

Technology offers them the transforming means but can they, as leaders, take their people with them? It ‘upends’ much, if not all, of how our business organizations have been organized around, mostly within themselves, it is needing radical change. Today larger organizations are having to face the stark truth. Either they adapt or die.

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Balancing Innovation via Organizational Ambidexterity – Part 3

Integrative Innovation

O’Reilly and Michael Tushman review and condense the research done so far on the subject. One of the key findings of this paper is that “in uncertain [business] environments, organizational ambidexterity appears to be positively correlated with increased innovation, better financial performance and higher survival rates.”.