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Innovation needs the power of completing the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

We have to recognize the days of simple product innovation are dwindling. where technology, digital solutions, greater customer insights, where a new breed of designers, engineers, scientists, and software talent are combining built through a platform and new innovation ecosystems thinking, are all emerging.

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Building Capacity for Breakthrough Innovation

Innov8rs

This distinction is crucial because the management systems, support structures, and resources required to nurture breakthrough innovations differ significantly from those needed for more incremental changes. Organizations must develop a capability for breakthrough innovation that goes beyond traditional R&D functions.

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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. Even though this is a trend for all, there is a growing digital divide.

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Trends in Innovation Leaders: Greater Risk and Big Bets

InnovationManagement

The latest Innovation Leaders research shows that there is an increasingly number of high-growth companies that are prepared to take greater risk and make big bets. Rather than focus just on incremental growth, they are being bolder and are seeking to develop more radical innovation opportunities.

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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

This not just comes from the research and development lab but far more to listening and observing customers, the market shifts and trends, to having customer conversations, gaining insights into potential gaps or opportunities in the marketplace or through those that have this market-facing role inside the organization.

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

Breakthrough innovators are willing to make decisions and choices as much on the basis of intuition and insight as on data and forecasts – they bet on people rather than manage a process. Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Source: Accenture.