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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. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwhile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives.

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8 Types of Innovation in Business: A Comprehensive Guide

Qmarkets

A real-life example of process innovation is the Toyota Production System (TPS), which was developed by the Japanese automotive manufacturer Toyota. Implemented first in Toyota manufacturing plants, this innovative production system dramatically reduced costs while improving product quality and production flexibility.

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Krishnan Naganathan

Innovation 360 Group

Krishnan have over 25 years of varied industry experience spanning steel, automotive, FMCG and business consulting. Innovation management. Operational performance improvement (manufacturing & service domains) using methods such as Lean, TPM, Six Sigma. Performance management system. Quality management.

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Max Groppfeldt

Innovation 360 Group

Additional areas of expertise lie within entrepreneurial activities from starting and scaling up an international venture at one of Sweden’s most prominent business incubators by utilizing the lean startup methodology. Additional areas of interest are global issues and trends, macroeconomics, technology, and the automotive industry.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Design Thinking

InnovationTraining.org

What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? Innovation managers: Innovation managers use design thinking to drive innovation within the organization. This may involve leading design thinking teams, facilitating workshops, and developing innovation processes and strategies.

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Scaling-Up: Crossing the Internal Chasm in Corporate Innovation

Integrative Innovation

The business units of the core organization are operators and incremental innovators. They are based on lean / efficient and 0-mistakes principles. They excel at keeping supply chains and factories humming and at managing complex networks of suppliers, distributors and business partners. Automotive. Telecommunication.

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A New Way of Thinking About the Automotive Industry

Qmarkets

Recent trends suggest that the automotive industry might be next on Silicon Valley's disruption list. Besides a surge of auto tech startups and Tesla's success, Silicon Valley's new affair with the automotive industry is heightened by chatter about a secret car project by the most prominent disruptor of them all: Apple. In the U.S.