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Has innovation changed over the last ten years?

Paul Hobcraft

Today, innovation is seen as an open process, where organizations leverage external sources of knowledge, ideas, and feedback to enhance their innovation performance 1. Open innovation is the practice of sharing and using external and internal ideas to create value 2.

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

This needs significant process redesign and the redesign into small, nimble teams and cross-trained groups who collectively gather around a problem to solve it and then disperse and reform in different shape and form to address the next need. It does seem we all need to pursue disruptive and radical innovation designs.

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Discontinuous Innovation: Transforming Industries & Creating New Markets

Qmarkets

This concept, often used interchangeably with radical and disruptive innovation, has nuances worth understanding. Defining Discontinuous Innovation Discontinuous innovation introduces significant technological leaps or entirely new business models , much like radical innovation.

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Innovation cannot expand without the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

This new innovative approach is building greater complexity into our final innovation offerings, yet it is providing increased customer value or societal needs, on problems that require this combined thinking.

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Rethinking the measuring of innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Some of these initial suggestions of course are inter-changeable or become reliant on each other, but it gives a decent understanding of what makes up the balance sheet needs we all must have in place to have a thriving innovation organization. It needs to address the creative, engagement and relationship part that innovation always needs.

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Balancing Innovation via Organizational Ambidexterity – Part 3

Integrative Innovation

As Geoffrey Moore [2] has pointed out, breakthrough innovations need to “cross the chasm” between the initial customers and the majority of the market. Actively managing the market introduction therefore increases significantly the likelihood of success for radical innovations.

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Spotting Innovation Opportunities

ITONICS

A strategic innovation field, let’s call it “ opportunity space ”, can be found by connecting all the dots between bits of diverse information you already know and put them together in a way that breaks a pattern. So why is it so very important to take this upstream step in the innovation process?