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There are Knowns and Unknowns in Innovation: Let’s Manage Them Differently

Paul Hobcraft

Secretary of Defense Donald Henry Rumsfeld, who mentioned: “unknown unknowns” (Rumsfeld, 2002). For innovators so much of innovation is hard to detect, it needs discovery and working through these quadrants of knowledge as well. Our pursuit in life is often the same as our innovation efforts, the search for discovery.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

In fact, building blocks as ‘middle management’ might only still exist on paper today. But times are changing and organizations are emerging, scaling and managed completely differently. Each type of organization exists in three different levels of innovation. Why this typology: innovation management in organizations.

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Can creativity and innovation be managed?

hackerearth

Does “managinginnovation limit creativity, thus stifling innovative ideas? Samuel Palmisano, the former CEO of IBM, said, “We treat innovation as if it were magical, not subject to guidance or nurturing much less planning. If we study history, however, we know that’s simply untrue.

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How Failure does or does not impact Innovation

ITONICS

Let’s face the facts: failure is becoming a trendy thing due to the ever-increasing speed of innovation. More and more we hear entrepreneurs say “ It’s OK to fail ” or “ Failure is a must for success ”. In fact, failure itself doesn’t lead to innovation, it’s more about how you deal with failure that matters.