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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

They point out that since 2014, only four types of innovation and that are all related to digital, have grown increasingly in importance in their pursuit by companies. The importance of big data, the speed of technology adoption, mobile products, digital design, and technology platforms are at the heart of innovation.

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Why we should focus on Innovation Governance

Paul Hobcraft

Often our innovation activity is hard to defend , as it is often entering uncharted territory or we lack “hard” quantifiable data to seek more money, additional resources and justify it. It encourages agility, adapting, being fluid and dynamic in the way to undergo innovation.

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Mapping the customer journey is the top driver for digital transformation

Paul Hobcraft

So that you are aware, the data and insights in this report are based on the input of more than 500 digital transformation strategists and executives who are leading change within their organizations. Knowing the why of your customers is something that keeps many marketing and C-level executives up at night.

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50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Open Innovation EU

The course was based on the following model: The following list is a selection of the business cases they found, mostly based on the Lean Startup, Lean Enterprise, Corporate Entrepreneurship and agile/Scrum – all available freely and online for use at your disposal, so I decided to share them with you. A Brief History of Lean.

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Innovation Insights from Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Destination Innovation

Traditional bookstores responded with their own websites but none was as appealing, as agile or as successful as Amazon. After the dot.com crash in 2000 Amazon found itself with excess IT capacity in its data centres. In 2014 Amazon entered the smartphone market with the release of the Fire Phone.

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

Let’s sum up some relevant findings of these studies, making the case for dual innovation management: BCG: Most Innovative Companies 2014 . Breakthrough innovators are willing to make decisions and choices as much on the basis of intuition and insight as on data and forecasts – they bet on people rather than manage a process.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

Rather than on delivering mass-scaled products or services, the focus is on creating data-based platforms that enable a number of stakeholders, such as customers, partnering companies and third party contributors, to participate in co-creating highly contextualized solutions. Winner-takes-all dynamics play out.