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What is design thinking and how can it help you innovate?

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Today, the business world recognizes that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term sustainability and success. Design Thinking is NOT a New Concept. With all the hype around design thinking, one would think that it is a new concept. What is Design Thinking? Stages of Design Thinking.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

It has been a while since Henry Mintzberg developed his influential work that made us aware of the importance of structures in organization design. Structures are no longer of primary focus in design organizations. In fact, building blocks as ‘middle management’ might only still exist on paper today.

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The Ambidextrous Organization

Open Innovation EU

Bessant noted that organizations should always find a balance between innovators and innovation managers. Exploration: creating a long-term strategy; Exploitation: creating business models; Design meets Business. Among researchers, the intersection of design and management (science) has long been a topic of discussion.

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Organizing for Simultaneous Innovation Capability – key findings from +1,000 companies, republished from Drucker Forum 2016

Innovation 360 Group

Horizon 2 (H2) is about expanding and building new business (the next S-Curve) through innovations. Another source on the theme, O’Reilly III and Tushman (2004) , talks about being able working ambidextrously with incremental and radical innovation at the same time.

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Organizing for Simultaneous Innovation Capability – key findings from +1,000 companies, republished from Drucker Forum 2016

Innovation 360

Horizon 2 (H2) is about expanding and building new business (the next S-Curve) through innovations. Another source on the theme, O’Reilly III and Tushman (2004) , talks about being able working ambidextrously with incremental and radical innovation at the same time.

Company 40
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Organizational Pathways to Business Model Innovation

Integrative Innovation

Companies exploring new business models may not fully recognize that these tensions will almost inevitably emerge and thus may be ill-prepared to manage them. A useful taxonomy for addressing this issue has resulted from research by Costas Markides and Costas Charitou (2004).

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

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Apple’s breakthrough innovations laid the base for upgrades, which are routine innovations, raking in billions. Apple has refashioned consumer experience with its iconic branding, stylish design and a diverse product range, its own retail stores, and important partnerships with the competition.