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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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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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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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Innovation needs the power of completing the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

We can build and connect different supply chains that read and react, we can create new ecosystems where we share a common goal and value, we can enable more agile systems that can adapt and respond to changes in real-time to reconfigure the ‘connected factory’. Innovation emerges out of the Industrial 4.0

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Innovation cannot expand without the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

Equally the nature of much of production has been designed “on the fly” and the equally tough job of connecting the whole process up in a new integrated, fully connected system meets huge resistance. The system complexity, understanding and investment delays are often huge and difficult to unwind.

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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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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. Incremental innovation : Even in highly mature industries, such as automotive, experimentation gains ever more importance.