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Barriers to innovation, the cause and effect.

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation is one of those activities that constantly “swim against the currents of the dominating culture of the organization” We cripple our creative process as it is often not visible or transparent; the innovative process can be seen as a “black box” by many in the organization; they only can judge the end result.

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Six million dollar innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar man, was in a horrific test flight accident, and government scientists rebuilt him with bionic legs and a bionic arm and eye, which made him far more powerful than other normal humans. Which says something about Honda and its marketing targets, but I digress. This isn't hyperbole. This is a fact.

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

They point out that since 2014, only four types of innovation and that are all related to digital, have grown increasingly in importance in their pursuit by companies. So the need to innovate comes from digital as the source. It will fundamentally change the type of resources innovation requires.

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Needing To Think Applied Innovation Services

Paul Hobcraft

We can simply go on and on in the many ways we have evolved our problem-solving techniques or methodologies, as those help the innovation and discovery process; incremental, piecemeal and experimental. We have never ‘cracked’ the full innovation management system. A new cycle of innovation.

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Choosing your direction of travel

Paul Hobcraft

For instance, earlier engagement with governments, with research institutes, publishing new findings in more open ways, less restrictive on a sharing data all might allow the communities to search for a different model of discovery to commercialization. Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics and Algorithms beckon hugely.

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Technology leads, innovation exploitation is lagging

Paul Hobcraft

This merging of cloud, big data, social, and the internet of things is becoming the new system of discovery according to some. Digital matters, in its raw innovating power and its potential business impact. The balance in innovation activity is changing. The Need to Automate the Innovation Process.

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

A well-suited way to govern this approach is to manage a portfolio of initiatives. Incremental innovation : Even in highly mature industries, such as automotive, experimentation gains ever more importance. Even fewer are actually investing in them. (…).