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Has innovation changed over the last ten years?

Paul Hobcraft

From linear to systemic : Innovation used to be seen as a linear process where ideas were generated, tested, and implemented in a sequential manner. Today, innovation is recognized as a systemic phenomenon, where multiple actors interact and collaborate across different domains and levels 1.

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Three Ways Work From Home Sparks Innovation

IdeaScale

Especially, when they are involved in collaboration, brainstorming, and ideation, innovation is critical to your success. You would think that innovation would falter when people transitioned to working online, and sometimes while working remotely people can feel disinterested or uninvolved in their workplace. Flexibility.

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation has gone from being islands of knowledge, developing new products and services exclusive to that one company, then quickly copied by the competitors, into something radically different. There are needs to explore the ways of working, collaborating and engaging and that alone is a massive undertaking.

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Innovation cannot expand without the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

It is equally holding a new form of innovation back, one that is highly collaborative where partners come together to work on more complex problems. Collaborators can achieve solutions only by being “fully” connected up, comfortable with their data, understanding and contribution, both within their knowledge and insights.

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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

Today working in more open, highly collaborative environments, we are building ecosystems, networks and a rich diversity of partners who all can bring ideas, knowledge, diversity of opinion, different expertise and insights. We need both informal mechanisms and formal ones. For instance, some opening prompters. What we know today.

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Discontinuous Innovation: Transforming Industries & Creating New Markets

Qmarkets

This concept, often used interchangeably with radical and disruptive innovation, has nuances worth understanding. Defining Discontinuous Innovation Discontinuous innovation introduces significant technological leaps or entirely new business models , much like radical innovation.

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Co-innovation: the concept, its benefits, and why you need to embrace it

hackerearth

Traditionally, many organizations used their own knowledge monopoly to innovate and deliver dominant technologies and products to the market. However, businesses soon understood that innovation cannot take place in a vacuum and it requires different points of view, diverse skill sets, and collaboration. What is co-innovation?