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Connecting innovating value comes from Ecosystem thinking

Paul Hobcraft

We are witnessing a very radical change, driven by technology, increasingly disrupting and breaking down past traditional boundaries, partly built to defend positions so as to achieve economic scale. These are: The constant exponential of technology and its power to change is forcing up to change.

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Treat Your Innovation Pipeline just like your Sales Pipeline

Destination Innovation

Estimates for each of these questions enable a total sales forecast to be assembled and reviewed. The pipeline is regularly reviewed at executive level. Lessons are learned, and changes are made to constantly improve the sales process. Can we crack the technology? What technology challenges do we face?

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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. The WEF wants to create a neutral, learning platform, which provides the best technical and organizational insights with respect to 4IR technologies in manufacturing to accelerate the delivery of the benefits, to give a sort of safe harbor.

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Discontinuous Innovation: Transforming Industries & Creating New Markets

Qmarkets

Understanding Discontinuous Innovation The term itself gained prominence through the work of scholars such as Clayton Christensen, who introduced the concept in his book “The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail” published in 1997.

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Overcome resistance and capture growth in the Financial Services Industry

Innovation 360 Group

Over the past few months, we have learned a lot about ourselves in the way we’ve been able to respond to external unplanned events. Evidence points to two areas in particular – capabilities surrounding radical innovation and the breadth of innovation culture. The importance of radical innovation.

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Successful Innovators Apply Multiple Leadership Styles Simultaneously

Innovation 360 Group

Leadership styles are critical to innovation efforts, especially when working with uncertainty. In the resulting report, they identified several factors that were positively correlated with the successful execution of innovative concepts. Radical Innovators more adaptive. The Spiral Staircase. The Explorer.

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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? Setting about changing any status quo is tough, seeing something totally different, in a larger context and in a more sharing partnership calls for radical shifts in thinking. Either they adapt or die. It needs bold leadership.