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Treat Your Innovation Pipeline just like your Sales Pipeline

Destination Innovation

Who is the competition? Estimates for each of these questions enable a total sales forecast to be assembled and reviewed. The pipeline is regularly reviewed at executive level. Can we crack the technology? This is reasonably straightforward for incremental innovations but particularly hard for radical innovations.

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Discontinuous Innovation: Transforming Industries & Creating New Markets

Qmarkets

In this article, we delve into the essence of discontinuous innovation, its impact on the competitive landscape, and how businesses can harness its transformative potential. Sustaining innovations are incremental improvements to existing products or services that cater to the needs of established customers.

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Innovation cannot expand without the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

To do this, technology adoption and diffusion across the ecosystem needs to improve dramatically. The WEF wants to create a neutral, learning platform, which provides the best technical and organizational insights with respect to 4IR technologies in manufacturing to accelerate the delivery of the benefits, to give a sort of safe harbor.

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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

Having rigid structure or processes and many good observations or concepts can be screened out far too quickly due to “imposed” metrics or a defined idea of how “anything” gets captured and evaluated. We need to remain “open” to what and how we process this. We need both informal mechanisms and formal ones.

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Overcome resistance and capture growth in the Financial Services Industry

Innovation 360 Group

Our digital capabilities have been at the forefront due to the increase in the level of acceptance of digital and virtual interaction with our customers and their relative experience across business lines and geographies. The importance of radical innovation.

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The New Innovation Need: Organizing within a Networks of Collaborators

Paul Hobcraft

Technology offers them the transforming means but can they, as leaders, take their people with them? Yet the prize can be a sustaining competitive position unable to be matched due to this ecosystem lock-in of vested parties. Today larger organizations are having to face the stark truth. Either they adapt or die.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the perfusion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive.