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Our inabilities to adapt needs changing.

Paul Hobcraft

Erosion is everywhere, it just seems inevitable, we somehow get caught up in the process of time and our organizations seem to ‘freeze’ before our eyes, then simply age. We often give up and leave, moving on to better places and challenges. Can innovation and transformation combine and work together?

Change 100
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Case Studies: Learning from Failure, or Dying from it

Qmarkets

We frequently talk about how innovation is a crucial necessity for your enterprise company, and how the right innovation can be the difference between setting the market standards and being shunted aside as a new market leader makes the rules. What can we learn from their innovation failures? Toys Were Us.

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Uncertainty is the Innovator’s Friend

The Inovo Group

All four need to be managed during the innovation process. By using the ORL uncertainty framework, organizations can better manage innovation uncertainty. Efforts such as Six Sigma and business process design are specifically engineered to minimize uncertainty. A Necessary Part of the Innovation Process.

System 40
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Good Ideas Often go Nowhere: Here’s What You Can Do About It

The Inovo Group

Yuan was Cisco’s vice president of engineering and in 2011 he pitched a new smartphone-friendly video conferencing system to Cisco management. Companies can deal with technological and market uncertainty, even ecosystem uncertainty, using innovation processes, methods and tools developed over the decades. The idea was rejected.

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Digital transformation – the need to transform our innovation approaches

Paul Hobcraft

Digital transformation is being asked of everybody to get involved in but do we have a sufficient understanding of it? Add in the magic ‘need’ so innovation can benefit from this business digital transformation and we begin to shift around in our chairs even more. We needed to step back and ask, what is truly transformational?

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Digital transformation – the need to transform our innovation approaches

Paul Hobcraft

Digital transformation is being asked of everybody to get involved in but do we have a sufficient understanding of it? Add in the magic ‘need’ so innovation can benefit from this business digital transformation and we begin to shift around in our chairs even more. We needed to step back and ask, what is truly transformational?

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

New generations, societal change, sustainable goals and disruptive technology require organizations to be much more flexible, self-reinventing organisms that don’t fit above-mentioned design principles. Each type of organization exists in three different levels of innovation. Steve Blank (1995).