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Continuous Improvement and Breakthrough Innovation: Why You Need Both

IdeaScale

The iPhone was considered a true innovation back in 2007, opening up an entirely new approach to telecommunications and changing how people used phones forever. Yet even that breakthrough innovation was built upon decades of smaller innovations in telecommunications, internet technology, and computing technology.

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Innovative Businesses Prioritize Creativity

Daniel Burrus

Most notably, older organizations are the ones that place creativity in one column and positive disruptions via innovation in another. Some have been through the Great Depression, world wars, the Great Recession of 2007–09, and now, most recently, the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent economic downturn.

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The New Game Or Is It? Asset Orchestration

Paul Hobcraft

Now Amazon is far from “asset heavy” when you compare them to the Industrial companies like GE but asset orchestration is seemingly getting far greater management time for all companies it seems. So is asset orchestration becoming increasingly critical in the age of ecosystems, platforms and managing technology and data?

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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

Advances in mechanisation, mass production and, more recently, technology have shaped where and how we work, as well as what we produce. 1945 – Producing skilled workers to rebuild after the war At the end of the Second World War, courses were again adapted to the needs of post-war reconstruction to provide training for the building industry.

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The Role of Innovation in New Product Development: Three Approaches for Success

Qmarkets

According to to f3fundit “the iPhone itself was a result of incremental innovation, coupled with the foresight to exploit a market need” When the first iPhone was launched in 2007 there were already variations of the smartphone available, but none had been as popular.

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PLAYING IT SAFE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING YOU CAN DO

Innovation 360 Group

Companies disappear all the time without a word, due to changing cultural values, changing technology, or changing audience demographics. It’s really not as hard as you think to read the signs of a rapidly approaching upheaval in your industry. Taxis, Records, and Toys: A tale of three industries.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

Eric Gabas-Varini is the Partner and Co-Founder of Innovation Framework Technologies, a consulting firm which was founded in Paris, but has since established regional offices in the United States, South Korea & Japan, with a network of associate offices in Latin America and the Middle East. Merging Theory and Practice. Pitfalls to Avoid.