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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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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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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. Customers and employees are driving innovation.

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Mitigating risk with a balanced innovation portfolio

Innovation 360 Group

Assume that you have a number of projects that you want to execute, and you have a number of resources that can be used to execute them (resources such as innovation managers, or programmers). If the resources can be organized so all projects can be optimally executed without any interdependencies (i.e., Interdependency.

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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.

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The core principles of Leading FOR Innovation

Cris Beswick

Leaders who champion innovation understand its role in driving competitive advantage, increasing market share, and, often, creating entirely new markets. The ultimate manifestation of this is to figure out how to disrupt yourself inside the safety of an innovation process before a competitor (existing or new) does it for you.

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5 Misconceptions to Avoid When Building Your Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

However, there are also several implicit practices that your company may have in place that are showing employees that innovative ideas are not valued. These are not as easy to see from the surface so it may be wise to involve your Human Resources department to truly dissect the root of these implications.