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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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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. We need both informal mechanisms and formal ones. What we know today.

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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. initiative in radically different ways to explore and exploit. The internal change is slow.

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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.

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Balancing Large and Small Firm Capabilities

Integrative Innovation

The corresponding integration of incremental and radical innovation can basically be achieved in different ways: Building ambidextrous and lean startup capabilities. Established organizations with larger size usually target at extending their core business by incementally innovating their existing business model.

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Rethinking the measuring of innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Some of these initial suggestions of course are inter-changeable or become reliant on each other, but it gives a decent understanding of what makes up the balance sheet needs we all must have in place to have a thriving innovation organization. It needs to address the creative, engagement and relationship part that innovation always needs.

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Treating Innovation Risk Differently, Dealing with Uncertainty

Paul Hobcraft

They are quiet rightly suggesting “ with risks well-managed, companies can then use rapid experimentation and the techniques of agile development—an iterative process closely linked to customers and markets—to boost their chances of coming up with a truly profitable innovation portfolio”.