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5 Misconceptions to Avoid When Building Your Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

Regardless of the industry your business falls in, innovation can keep your team ahead of the trends and competitors and foster stability and consistency within your strategy. While innovation is pertinent, it is often misunderstood and as a result, many companies fail to reap the benefits of it at its best.

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5 Misconceptions to Avoid When Building Your Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

Regardless of the industry your business falls in, innovation can keep your team ahead of the trends and competitors and foster stability and consistency within your strategy. While innovation is pertinent, it is often misunderstood and as a result, many companies fail to reap the benefits of it at its best.

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Uncharted Waters Disrupting the Corporate Boardrooms

Paul Hobcraft

Corporations are under increasing attack and are really struggling to become more radical in how they can defend, secure and achieve growth. A lack of understanding innovation in all its forms is coming back to haunt them. They can’t seemingly handle radical innovation and there is even more of an imperative to learn.

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

There are significant shifts underway towards digital innovation in R&D and new-product development. Of course, this shift requires really big changes in strategy, operations, the organization and in each individuals orientation. Even though this is a trend for all, there is a growing digital divide.

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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

The first was setting the scene for these conversations on the “fundamental building blocks for innovation success” ( LINK ) and then the second into “the essential alignment of innovation to strategy” ( LINK ). The idea needs to “form, from observation, listening, engaging and data insights.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

There are various triggers for a business model innovation - companies may find themselves in limited growth areas due to market saturation and are thus forced to exit the core business with a new business model. According to the degree of innovation, innovations can be divided into evolutionary and disruptive innovations.

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What do we expect from Innovation? Mostly disappointment

Paul Hobcraft

The survey exposes the myth that innovation is not one of the three top challenges, innovation ranks fifth as it follows the more conventional concerns of managing talent as the top (and that did surprise me) and regulatory and competitive threats. Risk management is rated far more than innovation as a better process.

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