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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

To look forward, I would argue we always need to look back and account for the progress made in managing innovation over the years. So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years. Briefly, I summarize what these have been bringing into innovative thinking.

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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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Building a case for managing innovation

hackerearth

“Building a startup is an exercise in institution building; thus, it necessarily involves management.”- Why should creativity and innovation be given such a high position in the hierarchy, to an extent that it should be reserved for a select few? Shouldn’t creativity and innovation be for all? Eric Ries, Lean Startup.

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Jumping to a fresh cycle of innovation design

Paul Hobcraft

I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. We design the innovation system we need after we know what we are trying to achieve in the challenge or idea. We “pull down” what is needed.

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Six million dollar innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

As markets, technologies and competitors accelerate, as customers increase their demands, you'll be faced with either speed up the innovation process and generate more new products and services at greater speed or you will be the dinosaur. This isn't hyperbole. This is a fact.

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Industry 4.0

eZassi

With Innovation Management In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, staying ahead of the competition requires embracing Industry 4.0 and leveraging the power and adaptability of Innovation Management and strategy. innovative manufacturing methods must be developed. Improving Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0

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Needing To Think Applied Innovation Services

Paul Hobcraft

We have never ‘cracked’ the full innovation management system. Many of those innovation tools that have been emerging in recent years have now built up a powerful body of validation, and they become necessary to know and practice yet often miss the basic building block needs of innovation.