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Innovation, ecosystems, platforms and the promise of more to come

Paul Hobcraft

In the course of several interrelated blog posts Paul and I will be talking about innovation, the necessary “ecosystem” for success, why good innovators won’t think about products, services and business models in isolation, and how platforms contribute to greater innovation success. Open Innovation.

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

However, by developing an innovation strategy that anticipates a downturn, you can help your enterprise weather the storm and even uncover lucrative ways to gain a competitive edge. In the interests of futureproofing your enterprise, it’s important to ensure your innovation strategy can accommodate the privations of turbulent economic times.

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Innovation, ecosystems, platforms and the promise of more to come

Paul Hobcraft

In the course of several interrelated blog posts Paul and I will be talking about innovation, the necessary “ecosystem” for success, why good innovators won’t think about products, services and business models in isolation, and how platforms contribute to greater innovation success. Open Innovation.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

To my opinion, Mintzberg’s work was a refreshing change to the world of organization design that until then has been largely influenced by Taylor’s Scientific Management Approach and Henry Ford’s efficiency-based adaptation of that. Figure 1: Typology for Innovative Organizations. Organization Design in their eyes.

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Choosing the right strategy handling uncertainty

Innovation 360 Group

Imagine you ask your management team or your employees to figure out, design and launch something that will replace your current business, and give them a deadline and a budget. It’s also here you find a lot of brave innovations driven by high ambitions and technology (decoding the Enigma, going to the moon, and developing tanks).

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Choosing the right strategy handling uncertainty

Innovation 360

Imagine you ask your management team or your employees to figure out, design and launch something that will replace your current business, and give them a deadline and a budget. It’s also here you find a lot of brave innovations driven by high ambitions and technology (decoding the Enigma, going to the moon, and developing tanks).

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).