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8 Types of Innovation in Business: A Comprehensive Guide

Qmarkets

Razors have undergone incremental innovations over time Source: The Hustle Incremental innovations may not make headlines, but they’re the steady pulses that keep businesses competitive and responsive to market demands.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

At the beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts. Cases in point: Lego and Burberry. Culture of experimentation (and speed).

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Discontinuous Innovation: Transforming Industries & Creating New Markets

Qmarkets

The power of discontinuous innovation lies in its ability to transform not just business operations but also market landscapes, offering immense opportunities for companies that dare to lead the charge. This concept, often used interchangeably with radical and disruptive innovation, has nuances worth understanding.

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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

It is all about the fit of innovation and the tensions between the design, function, structure, and process needs to manage innovation management. We relate this specifically within our Executive Innovation Work Mat. Then it needs full support and resourcing. We need both informal mechanisms and formal ones.

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Treat Your Innovation Pipeline just like your Sales Pipeline

Destination Innovation

Who is the competition? What additional resources are needed to win the deal? They contribute ideas and resources to help close sales. This is reasonably straightforward for incremental innovations but particularly hard for radical innovations. What is the dollar value of each item in the pipeline?

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What do we expect from Innovation? Mostly disappointment

Paul Hobcraft

Much of the innovation discovery journey is a disappointing one. Resources constantly “churn” and get depleted, waiting for others to be brought up to speed. Those not involved directly within the innovation project constantly remain skeptical or require more proof. A hunch or insight becomes a dead end.

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PESTLED360: Iron Out Key Driving Forces in Your Current Environment and Anticipate Future Ones

Innovation 360 Group

This could for instance be future competitors or collaborators and the force could be competition from new entrants. Operational Strategic Initiatives (those initiatives that need to be executed now) are prioritized by using Impact-Feasibility mapping, making sure to optimize resource usage. This is what we call incremental innovation.