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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 2

Tim Kastelle

Tim’s Comment: I can’t tell you how often I come back to exploration/exploitation as a key concept. One of the key issues in innovation management is figuring out how to frame these important ideas in ways that make sense to managers – finding the right story, metaphor or phrase. Who wants to be an exploiter?

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How to Set Up a Corporate Innovation Outpost That Works

Corporate Innovation

After its initial success in “sensing” the Innovation Cluster and partnering, the Outpost team has to assess how to “respond” to these threats and opportunities. Do we have a Lean Startup Methodology in place? Figure 1 : Three Stages of Corporate Innovation Outposts. Should the corporation invest, invent, incubate, or acquire?

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How to Set Up a Corporate Innovation Outpost That Works

Corporate Innovation

After its initial success in “sensing” the Innovation Cluster and partnering, the Outpost team has to assess how to “respond” to these threats and opportunities. Do we have a Lean Startup Methodology in place? Figure 1 : Three Stages of Corporate Innovation Outposts. Should the corporation invest, invent, incubate, or acquire?

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How to determine when customer feedback is actionable

Boxes and Arrows

Although product leaders can propose numerous ‘lean’ methodologies to experiment inexpensively with new concepts before fully engineering them, anything short of launching a product or feature and monitoring its performance over time in the market is, by definition, not 100% accurate. Insights should.

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Projects Are How Innovation Happens

Gregg Fraley

Lean is not innovation. Big Data is not innovation. If you want proof of this idea that it’s all about projects just see what Min Basadur , Edwards Demming , and Joseph Juran say about how to innovate and change and improvement in organizational culture. Guided visualizations are not innovation.

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Sinking the unthinkable

Paul Hobcraft

There is the increasing need for ecosystems, platforms, the greater use of analytics, big data and reliance on technology are all crowding in on innovation delivery. There are such changes occurring. I feel we can go on foolishly believing innovation will simply cope with all that is coming towards her?

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How to Avoid Innovation Theater: The Six Decisions To Make Before Establishing an Innovation Outpost

Corporate Innovation

They may require the utilization of technologies that are prevalent in the ecosystem, (big data or 3D printing) or specialized business models, (on-demand services) or specific innovation practices (design thinking and lean startup) or the development of a particular type of partner ecosystem ( IBM’s Watson partner ecosystem.).

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