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8 Types of Innovation in Business: A Comprehensive Guide

Qmarkets

It’s the secret sauce that has transformed startups into tech giants and turned traditional businesses into market leaders. Innovation isn’t just about the next big idea; it’s a multifaceted strategy that businesses employ to navigate through the twists and turns of today’s dynamic markets.

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The power of agile innovation

Wazoku

Just a few examples of high-profile market leaders that publicly attribute their ongoing innovation successes to their commitment to digital experimentation. Google understands that an innovator wants to see his/her idea all the way through to completion. Incremental innovation over radical 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.

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We are searching for new pathways

Paul Hobcraft

It requires a radical redesign of the organization, as it significantly increases complexity and where any digital transformation has to center upon as the critical enabler to enable this shift. It is identifying the critical capabilities and being adept and agile enough in learning from these, to embed them into the changing culture.

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

We need to short-circuit our innovation development process, we must have as much visibility (and controls) into our value chain, we need to develop a riskier mindset to explore, validate and experiment to bring our products and services to market. The road you take will decide where innovation is heading for you.

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Innovation needs the power of completing the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

It shifts our thinking and the management of innovation dramatically. The ability to have a more “rapid response, adaptive designs and flexible manufacturing” can align more to market shifts earlier. We can reach far more into underserved markets through greater customer connections and engagement, we can co-design with them.

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Overcome resistance and capture growth in the Financial Services Industry

Innovation 360 Group

Innovative ideas are purchased externally and often not well integrated. Difficulties with speed to market. It drives innovation to a transactional level and leads organizations to seek the perceived lower risk of acquiring new ideas vs developing them in house. Often agile development initiatives are not ‘agile’ at all.