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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. To achieve this innovation has gone digital, pure and simple. So the need to innovate comes from digital as the source.

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What do we expect from Innovation? Mostly disappointment

Paul Hobcraft

So where does innovation sit within your organization? Both are I feel “painting” a realistic picture of where innovation does sit within organizations. Am I happy with this, no of course not but in my view “nothing can change until something does change” What do I mean by that? Customers and employees are driving innovation.

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The trough of innovation disillusionment

Paul Hobcraft

Over time our organizations are finding increasing reasons to put off the more radical innovation that is needed. Incremental innovation is safe and contains all the risks within acceptable levels, so it allows the organization to keep its fixation on the short-term as its only line of site (and executive pay-off).

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Rethinking the measuring of innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Shown below are a list of the factors I feel can be major contributors (far from exhaustive), firstly into the soft side of our balance sheet that is made up of culture, climate and environment as our creative and engagement capacity. It needs to address the creative, engagement and relationship part that innovation always needs.

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

Evaluating breakthrough innovation cultures and organization s, BCG concludes in their annual 2014 study: By definition, breakthrough innovation is the introduction of new ideas that drive a different way of doing things. This requires risk taking, of course, since no one can foresee the outcome or results of such initiatives.

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Balancing Large and Small Firm Capabilities

Integrative Innovation

The corresponding integration of incremental and radical innovation can basically be achieved in different ways: Building ambidextrous and lean startup capabilities. Established organizations with larger size usually target at extending their core business by incementally innovating their existing business model.

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Treating Innovation Risk Differently, Dealing with Uncertainty

Paul Hobcraft

They go on to suggest with product lifecycles across industries shortening, successful innovation often hinges on speed. We need to that prompt more on risk and innovation, reflecting why and how it should be treated in different ways and this might encourage a greater top management engagement.