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Choosing your direction of travel

Paul Hobcraft

They are not yet at the point of being digitally effective to turn what they have into real competitive advantage as they lack the capabilities in big data analysis and those algorithms that reveal ground-breaking innovations, Are they hanging on in the belief they will become digitally transformed eventually or just deluding themselves?

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

Operating in unpredictable environments relies on an agile organization , following an adaptive, evolutionary and more bottom-up approach, resembling complex adaptive systems, e.g. in biology. Incremental innovation : Even in highly mature industries, such as automotive, experimentation gains ever more importance.

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Capabilities and Leadership Close the Skills Gap in Manufacturing

Innovation 360 Group

Most importantly, they will need the right cultural matrix to support agile operations and flexible work. Productive innovative thinking is not inspired or sporadic. It emerges from the practical application of structured innovation processes. It’s also strongly rooted in leadership and culture.

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The Challenges being Faced by Innovation Consultants

Paul Hobcraft

There also seems this perpetual dilemma of clients’ wishes that are hard to reconcile with operational realities to turn their organizations from being focused on effective and efficient into agile and adaptive ,required for innovation. Also innovation itself is going through really a massive change.