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Building Capacity for Breakthrough Innovation

Innov8rs

This distinction is crucial because the management systems, support structures, and resources required to nurture breakthrough innovations differ significantly from those needed for more incremental changes. Organizations must develop a capability for breakthrough innovation that goes beyond traditional R&D functions.

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8 Types of Innovation in Business: A Comprehensive Guide

Qmarkets

Radical & Disruptive Innovation On the flip side, radical and disruptive innovation challenges the status quo by introducing new concepts, products, or models that shift market dynamics. Radical innovation is about making significant leaps forward, often creating new industries or reshaping existing ones.

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Knowing Your Innovation Pathway Curve – A methodology

Paul Hobcraft

Our methodology takes you through a structured approach, a way of climbing up this innovation understanding curve so the different needs you are trying to achieve (distinctive, radical, disruptive) can be managed in a clear way to support any future innovation initiative.

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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

It is all about the fit of innovation and the tensions between the design, function, structure, and process needs to manage innovation management. We relate this specifically within our Executive Innovation Work Mat. The ability to manage innovation design, function, structure and process.

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The power of agile innovation

Wazoku

Google understands that an innovator wants to see his/her idea all the way through to completion. Incremental innovation over radical innovation. There is a growing trend across businesses towards rapid, low-risk innovations. Innovation agility enables reduced times to market.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

At the beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts. A well-suited way to govern this approach is to manage a portfolio of initiatives.

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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.