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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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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.

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

Hence, I gave it some thought, starting by revisting an earlier reflection: Beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. Recently, experimentation in innovation management is particularly facilitated by intinsified use of (rapid) prototyping.