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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive process.

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What do most innovative companies have in common?

hackerearth

However, having leaders who drive and foster innovation accelerates a company’s growth. Top-tier managers handling innovation roles in successful companies set an example for the company’s employees to contribute to the innovation process. It also shows the company’s interest in investing in innovation.

Company 77
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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. Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Toyota Production System, Quality Circles, and continuous improvement all stemmed from that quality approach. Figure 1: Innovation process map (Courtesy: IDEO).

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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.

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7 Habits of Highly Innovative Companies

ITONICS

Nevertheless, many market participants still face the enormous challenge of figuring out the blend of all necessary elements and the right mix for a successful innovation process. Even fewer have persistently developed and implemented habits and processes that foster sustainable innovation.

Company 57
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Five Things You Should Measure about Your Innovation System

The Inovo Group

A-priori and post-hoc – Predict what future outcomes or wait to get actual data. This is a constant tension in any innovation management system and an area in which new, AI-based tools will have significant impact in this area. You don’t have to wait 10 – 20 years for your own innovation pipeline to produce results.

System 40
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The Perfect Conditions for Entering A New Innovation Era in 2017

Paul Hobcraft

So I am exploring here each of these conditions that I believe are coming together for a really important transforming storm built around a new innovation management, increasingly making it the core to the future for growth. If we do recognize all the above forces are converging, then innovation does become central to what we do.