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Incremental or Radical Innovation?

IdeaScale

It’s more about maintaining competitive parity than gaining competitive advantage. The problem with incremental innovation is that it feels safe and means you can be blindsided by disruptions. Surely, we should work towards that, but that doesn’t mean incremental innovation should, or can, be ignored.

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8 Types of Innovation in Business: A Comprehensive Guide

Qmarkets

Razors have undergone incremental innovations over time Source: The Hustle Incremental innovations may not make headlines, but they’re the steady pulses that keep businesses competitive and responsive to market demands.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive. Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation. Cases in point: Lego and Burberry.

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Innovation Success Requires Integrated Approaches

Integrative Innovation

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. Interestingly, it looks like others support the idea of balancing and combining elements of both innovation approaches, too. It really seems to have hit a nerve! The lack of intent makes it easy to get lost.

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The core principles of Leading FOR Innovation

Cris Beswick

Leaders who champion innovation understand its role in driving competitive advantage, increasing market share, and, often, creating entirely new markets. This balance is essential for organisations to remain competitive and adapt to changing market conditions. Horizon 1 activity has lower risk but also lower return.

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Digital Technology MoshPit

Gregg Fraley

The MoshPit system seeks to find combinations of concepts that lead to innovation. Digital technology holds promise to improve, or radically innovate, many areas of an organizational value chain. To discover radically new applications for digital tech what’s needed is taking a comprehensive look across all operations.

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages. Source: Accenture.