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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

I am working through what I think this should become in design and application, involving providing the key innovation building blocks as components of the innovation stack, using the innovation stack to guide platform development and the platform to support this innovation stack.

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Parkinson’s Law and the Peter Principle – are they relevant to innovation?

Idea to Value

The reasoning is that first, managers crave power and more people to order about and, second, more people create more work for each other. This is why “lean” and “agile” have become buzzwords today. How many incompetent managers do you see? These classics of management theory are surprisingly contemporary too.

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Sorting through our Innovation Management Tools

Paul Hobcraft

We all are caught up in handling and understanding different management tools. There are management tools that have become ‘enshrined’ in organizations and many of the executives become settled on the ones they have bothered to learn or seemingly do the job. Tracking the trends on Management Tools.

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From end to end: why the union of Design Thinking and Agile has been so successful

mjvinnovation

Design Thinking: Think of solutions, solve situations and problems, close the gaps that need filling in. It is Design Thinking that will pave the way to traveling assertively. Since you have a well-defined idea (through Design Thinking), Agile will clear a path towards your idea by removing obstacles that stand in your way.

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 2

Tim Kastelle

In addition to these still highly topical issues, we’d like to raise another four points which we personally foresee key for innovation management in the time to come – making no claim to completeness: Organizational Ambidexterity. It doesn’t always translate to managers, however. Who wants to be an exploiter?

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Building a case for managing innovation

hackerearth

“Building a startup is an exercise in institution building; thus, it necessarily involves management.”- Eric Ries, Lean Startup. This article builds the case for managing creativity and innovation with a similar discipline and rigor as any other management function, and the way more successful firms manage to manage innovation.