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It’s Time To Upgrade Your Innovation Management System

Innov8rs

However, the business environment for corporate innovators has since shifted, and they are now being asked to do more with less. Following a more generic call to “stop innovation theatre”, the current assignment is to create new revenue streams that contribute to top- and bottom-line in the short term.

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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Over the years, so much has improved and understood by the explanations, case examples, suggestions, clarifications and ways they were “built into” the individual innovation processes that each company chose to construct their innovation process.

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Exploring frameworks and methods you need to know as an Innovator

Paul Hobcraft

Partly it seems executives don’t engage with their brand or business in the way that their customers do” The difference between DMAIC, DMADV, and Innovation Management (tackling a critical part of Six Sigma). Some contributions here were actually around my own framework or my specific focus of innovating work.

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Scaling-Up: Crossing the Internal Chasm in Corporate Innovation

Integrative Innovation

The business units of the core organization are operators and incremental innovators. They are based on lean / efficient and 0-mistakes principles. They excel at keeping supply chains and factories humming and at managing complex networks of suppliers, distributors and business partners. Construction. Telecommunication.

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L.I.V.E. (Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution): A new, more effective way to manage multiple innovation projects

Idea to Value

However, these processes are not designed to work with innovation projects, where there is no clear plan, or even a confirmation that the innovation idea will actually work once it is delivered. There is no clarity on what innovation teams need to do in order to successfully deliver a project. But do not fear. works: L.I.V.E.

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Scaling-Up: The Foundation

Integrative Innovation

In this part, we put Scaling-Up in the context of a foundational framework for modern corporate innovation management which we call ‘ Dual Innovation ‘ Dual Innovation is a new and unique framework that integrates the two corporate innovation perspectives : Operative Business Units (short: BUs) and Corporate.

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15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using

Idea to Value

In many cases (especially those listed in the book, such as Computer Storage, Department Stores and Construction Equipment), the small company releases a new technology which is inferior in quality or performance to that of the large company, but makes up for it in another way, like a lower price or convenience.

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