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Incremental or Radical Innovation?

IdeaScale

What Is Disruptive Innovation? Disruptive” boils down to a drastic shift in how your business or your entire industry changes. Think, for example, of how the Toyota Prius suddenly changed how we talked about ecology, or how Amazon is changing retail as you read this. That said, disruptive innovation is a gamble.

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8 Types of Innovation in Business: A Comprehensive Guide

Qmarkets

For companies, embracing incremental innovation means fostering a culture of continuous improvement where even the smallest changes are valued for their cumulative impact over time. Radical innovation is about making significant leaps forward, often creating new industries or reshaping existing ones.

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design. Often this era of change is not as well-recognized or being faced up to, as you would expect. So the need to innovate comes from digital as the source.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive. In either case, companies are frequently forced to reinvent themselves by changing the way they have been doing business so far.

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Innovation Success Requires Integrated Approaches

Integrative Innovation

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. Interestingly, it looks like others support the idea of balancing and combining elements of both innovation approaches, too. It really seems to have hit a nerve! The lack of intent makes it easy to get lost.

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The core principles of Leading FOR Innovation

Cris Beswick

At the helm of this radical evolution stand leaders who are pioneers, visionaries, and, most importantly, adept at catalysing novel ideas into reality. Above all, fostering the culture that innovation requires is an arduous undertaking, potentially the most demanding a leader may face. It’s for those that I write this article!

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages. Source: Accenture.