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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

Reinvention through business model innovation. Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the pervasion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. That means high integration costs – and another reason to be wary of new innovation.

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He-Man can Teach You Powerful Lessons about how to Successfully Manage Continuous Innovation

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The whiplash journey of Mattel’s beloved kids’ toy range perfectly sums up the fundamentals and key challenges of managing continuous, successful corporate innovation. The post He-Man can Teach You Powerful Lessons about how to Successfully Manage Continuous Innovation appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Digital Innovation Units: Recommendations, Trends and Conclusions

Integrative Innovation

Company builders that operate decentralized isolated to explore and develop disruptive innovations that are beyond the core business have been a rarity so far. SMEs meanwhile concentrate with more limited funds on one or a few small units that take on multiple functions of digital innovation internally and externally.

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