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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

The first was setting the scene for these conversations on the “fundamental building blocks for innovation success” ( LINK ) and then the second into “the essential alignment of innovation to strategy” ( LINK ). The ability to manage innovation design, function, structure and process.

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

Digital is demanding so much in new processes that need to be more agile, responsive, reflective of new insights at increased speed and fluid in the design of those undertaking the solution to react. This agility needs the tools of testing, feedback, and adaptation to accelerate the innovation process.

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Overcome resistance and capture growth in the Financial Services Industry

Innovation 360 Group

This can be both good and bad – good, because the acquirers get access to new ideas which can add revenue, and bad because it tends to discourage the development of internal innovation capability, in particular radical innovation which, in our view, is a critical aspect of long term success. The importance of radical innovation.

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I keep arguing we all need to seek out innovation alignment

Paul Hobcraft

If an organisation lacks top leadership engagement it becomes, for many, the reason why they seem to just simply ‘limp’ along in their innovation activity, delivering ‘simply’ incremental outcomes. Innovation needs a well-considered framework. Agility Innovation / Ovo Innovation All rights reserved.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

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. A well-suited way to govern this approach is to manage a portfolio of initiatives.

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Innovation cannot expand without the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

There is a strategic resistance, there is a lack of organizational agility and still not the level of commitment this is required, driven from the top. Such a learning platform will also facilitate collaborative action and the new partnership between companies and governments. The internal change is slow.

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Choosing your direction of travel

Paul Hobcraft

For instance, earlier engagement with governments, with research institutes, publishing new findings in more open ways, less restrictive on a sharing data all might allow the communities to search for a different model of discovery to commercialization. We do need a new radical innovation redesign to take hold?