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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. So the need to innovate comes from digital as the source. It will fundamentally change the type of resources innovation requires.

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The power of agile innovation

Wazoku

In a company structure such as Google, when someone has an idea, they don’t require approval from higher up to chase it – they let the data provided from the results of their experiments do the talking. Google understands that an innovator wants to see his/her idea all the way through to completion. Role of culture in innovation.

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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

I would start by saying innovation should always be in “creative tension”, and as we operate and manage innovation, this tension should also apply within any design. The ability to manage innovation design, function, structure and process. Innovation needs to have a system that is constantly adaptive and flexible.

Design 130
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Innovation needs the power of completing the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation is the unlocking mechanism. New materials are making our assets more durable and resilient, and data and analytics provide the valuable feedback needed to build even better services and performance in the future. Innovation emerges out of the Industrial 4.0

Industry 289
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Innovation cannot expand without the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

It is equally holding a new form of innovation back, one that is highly collaborative where partners come together to work on more complex problems. Collaborators can achieve solutions only by being “fully” connected up, comfortable with their data, understanding and contribution, both within their knowledge and insights.

Industry 213
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Choosing your direction of travel

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation has really opened-up through highly collaborative approaches explored through relationships, using a more holistic ecosystem approach and exploiting concepts and ideas on common platforms. Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics and Algorithms beckon hugely. We need to engage differently. We need to engage differently.

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Digital Technology MoshPit

Gregg Fraley

The MoshPit system seeks to find combinations of concepts that lead to innovation. Digital technology holds promise to improve, or radically innovate, many areas of an organizational value chain. To discover radically new applications for digital tech what’s needed is taking a comprehensive look across all operations.