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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

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. Often this era of change is not as well-recognized or being faced up to, as you would expect. To achieve this innovation has gone digital, pure and simple.

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The trough of innovation disillusionment

Paul Hobcraft

We are already in or heading for a trough of innovation disillusionment. We are witnessing even more incremental creep; we have lost the effect of serendipity, the “wow” factor, the moment something happened that changed our world. Innovation gets exciting when you stumble across something, totally unexpected. So we stay bored.

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What do we expect from Innovation? Mostly disappointment

Paul Hobcraft

Those not involved directly within the innovation project constantly remain skeptical or require more proof. The status quo of the existing places an increasing drag on the forces of change. Both are I feel “painting” a realistic picture of where innovation does sit within organizations. Will something change?

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Seeking fresh winds and new directions

Paul Hobcraft

Anyone who has felt the ‘full force of the wind’ will know the feeling of how hard it is to keep on your feet, to stay determined to stay upright and true, to hold the course, whatever happens. When you feel the force of change running through the organization, you tend to have that same sensation, to resist the force with all your energy.

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Rethinking the measuring of innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Why do established businesses ignore the investment rationale for delivering real innovation winners that can change the fortune of the business and leave this ‘venturing’ to others to gain transformational solutions or even radically alter existing business value propositions and then ‘cry’ over being disrupted?

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

Evaluating breakthrough innovation cultures and organization s, BCG concludes in their annual 2014 study: By definition, breakthrough innovation is the introduction of new ideas that drive a different way of doing things. This requires risk taking, of course, since no one can foresee the outcome or results of such initiatives.

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Treating Innovation Risk Differently, Dealing with Uncertainty

Paul Hobcraft

They go on to suggest with product lifecycles across industries shortening, successful innovation often hinges on speed. Organizations stay locked into far too much “me too” innovation- why? At a time when capital is not scarce, it is abundant and cheap, we still see a lack of bolder investment in game-changing innovation.