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Parkinson’s Law and the Peter Principle – are they relevant to innovation?

Idea to Value

This is why “lean” and “agile” have become buzzwords today. There are assessments for nearly everything and big data will probably provide more on the less tangible things like creativity and likeability. From an innovator’s standpoint, it is better to have a culture of meritocracy and good systems to support it.

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

These are big data analytics, the fast adoption of new technologies, mobile products and capabilities and digital design.See the above for the complete list on where innovation is heading, it makes interesting viewing. This agility needs the tools of testing, feedback, and adaptation to accelerate the innovation process.

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Nine Questions CEO’s Should Ask About Innovation

Gregg Fraley

Does your culture support innovation? Is your culture supporting innovation? It’s a cliché, but you have to get the culture right. There are several ways to thoroughly assess if you have an innovative culture, but let’s keep it simple here. Is it a “pitch” culture where ideas for projects get a chance to be put into play?

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

Culture of experimentation (and speed). It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives. We are headed towards a co-creative platform economy.

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Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it

Steve Blank

Their most profitable segment is very high-end processors used in data centers in servers and the cloud. Today that’s built on the premise that an x86 architecture is the one best suited for big data. It’s possible that by the end of this decade history might repeat itself in Intel’s most profitable segment.

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7 Habits of Highly Innovative Companies

ITONICS

Large corporations have taken steps towards being more agile and adapting to the rapid pace of digitization by improving their oftentimes long innovation processes and giving more autonomy to employees. In startups, where experimentation is rooted in work culture, failing is often called “pivoting”. Adapt or die.

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A New Way of Thinking About the Automotive Industry

Qmarkets

and Europe , people are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting less driver's licenses, suggesting a major cultural shift away from individual car ownership. Govindarajan explains how older organizations often fall into the complacency and legacy trap, i.e. focusing too much on their past successes and existing structures and cultures.