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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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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

This not just comes from the research and development lab but far more to listening and observing customers, the market shifts and trends, to having customer conversations, gaining insights into potential gaps or opportunities in the marketplace or through those that have this market-facing role inside the organization.

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What do we expect from Innovation? Mostly disappointment

Paul Hobcraft

I mean anyway “we really don’t believe in innovation, it all is full of risk, uncertainty and those unknowns and that is the last place to go when you are fighting in a different set of market conditions, isn’t it?”. So where does innovation sit within your organization? Two reports recently came out. Lets briefly look at both.

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Balancing Innovation via Organizational Ambidexterity – Part 3

Integrative Innovation

This is part three of a three-parts article co-written with innovation-3 ‘s Frank Mattes. The first part highlighted that radical and incremental innovation build on two different innovation set-ups (exploration and exploitation, respect.

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Developing a new framework for risk and innovation.

Paul Hobcraft

Risk management for innovation needs to evolve to keep pace with the changing demands and pace of change we are undergoing in business challenges. Mark Johnson of Innosight wrote a great article some time back that still holds true today, in its observations, on how poorly the relationship between risk management and innovation is understood.

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The Pressing Need to Link Risk into an Innovation Strategy- part one

Paul Hobcraft

You Need an Innovation Strategy for it to really be seen as a critical resource of an organization. Gary Pisano had an excellent article “ You Need an Innovation Strategy” on HBR. “The first is to answer the question “How are we expecting innovation to create value for customers and for our company?”

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Developing a new framework for risk and innovation.

Paul Hobcraft

Risk management for innovation needs to evolve to keep pace with the changing demands and pace of change we are undergoing in business challenges. Mark Johnson of Innosight wrote a great article some time back that still holds true today, in its observations, on how poorly the relationship between risk management and innovation is understood.