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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

To achieve this innovation has gone digital, pure and simple. There are significant shifts underway towards digital innovation in R&D and new-product development. Of course, this shift requires really big changes in strategy, operations, the organization and in each individuals orientation.

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Two strategic approaches to innovation: incremental vs radical

The BMI Lab Blog

Incremental innovation This is a common approach in many established companies, which focus on creating new products and services, with several goals: To grow sales and profits for existing products and services. This approach is very popular because it reduces the risk that radical innovation usually takes.

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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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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. I'm talking today about the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling.

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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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3 innovation types: evolution, preventative and creative

Jeffrey Phillips

Even if we can speed up innovation activities (we've run innovation programs from problem definition to fully developed prototypes in under a week) you've still got to go through the product development and launch cycle. Another approach is to use innovation to ferret out efficiency gaps.

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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? Two reports recently came out.

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