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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. We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design.

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What do we expect from Innovation? Mostly disappointment

Paul Hobcraft

Good innovation is notoriously hard to achieve. Others looking at the innovation progress keep demanding tangible evidence and quantifiable guarantees that the outcome provides clear returns. Others looking at the innovation progress keep demanding tangible evidence and quantifiable guarantees that the outcome provides clear returns.

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3 innovation types: evolution, preventative and creative

Jeffrey Phillips

I was thinking over the weekend that for years we've positioned innovation incorrectly. Too often we position innovation as creating a new and valuable offering or solution, ready when customers are ready to demand new products and services. Another approach is to use innovation to ferret out efficiency gaps.

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What Kipling has to say about innovation culture

Jeffrey Phillips

If is a poem about keeping your wits about you when others are losing theirs, and keeping your course and beliefs when others doubt you. I think If should be mounted on the cubicle wall or meeting space or prototyping lab of every person who claims to be an innovator. That alone does not make them an innovator.

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

The first time I was advocating the idea of a dual innovation approach, here also referred to as organizational ambidexterity, is now more than 5 years ago. As recently outlined, I consider organizational ambidexterity to be a key innovation issue for organizations in 2016 and beyond.

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Two strategic approaches to innovation: incremental vs radical

The BMI Lab Blog

There are two complementary approaches to innovation: incremental vs radical. When setting up an innovation strategy, there are many decisions to take. Should I choose an incremental innovation path? Or should I rather look for a radical, or disruptive, approach? Let us examine them in more detail.

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Treating Innovation Risk Differently, Dealing with Uncertainty

Paul Hobcraft

We need to open up our thinking about risk and innovation management. We should aim for a really healthy construct that does help all involved or associated with innovation and managing risk, that gives a better chance of pushing beyond the incremental innovation that avoids most risk and disappoints those seeking real growth.