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Choosing your direction of travel

Paul Hobcraft

You know they are nowhere at the point of really understanding the potential of the changes that could take place within adopting a broader view on all aspects of innovation. The thinking through on the contribution around innovation needs to be changed. Can this change? You breed risk adversion. Industry 4.0

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What Will the Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 Be on Digital Transformation?

IdeaScale

Overview: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is still being felt in digital transformation, yet already we’ve seen changes, including expanded rollouts of remote working systems, more targeted deployment of IT resources, a more robust privacy and cybersecurity response, and more acceptance of mobile and web apps as productivity tools.

Meeting 244
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Innovation Department Best Practices: A Talk with Peter Berger

IdeaScale

As an innovation director, Berger is working on projects that include the development of an all-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft to be used for short-distance air travel with the ease of hailing an Uber. The Components of a Productive Innovation Department.

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The new ROI for digital innovation

Paul Hobcraft

The innovation funds are increasingly being switched to digital or technology solutions and the output of the discoveries from this digital technology need innovation to then be applied. The reliance on deeper insights, more data, greater communications is changing the way we undertake innovation. A virtuous loop.

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Finding the best innovators

Jeffrey Phillips

Any body won't do For too long, corporations have believed that "anyone" can innovate, and for the most part that assumption is at least partially true. Most people are reasonably good at creating small, incremental changes to existing products. Just focusing on product innovation is too limited.

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Overcoming fixedness before being locked in amber

Jeffrey Phillips

These entrants have little or no stake in how the industry or market is built or its existing business models, and in fact can profit by radically changing the business model. When multiple factors are changing, disruption is easier to accept. Conversely we can see why it is difficult to innovate in the airline industry.

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Why platforms and ecosystems matter for innovators

Jeffrey Phillips

I thought it would be interesting to take a step back and place the discussion of ecosystems and innovation in context by examining the history of innovation, to demonstrate why ecosystems and platforms become important as a market or industry matures, and why innovators must engage ecosystems and platforms as they compete in a market.