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The cost of delaying innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

What do companies that fail to invest in innovation miss? What the companies that make the decision to maintain cost containment will miss is the opportunity to put new products and services into the product development funnel. What work can be done to improve innovation and shorten time to market?

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The lost innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

The extract offers much for any innovation pathway we might be considering. The Innovation Pathway. ” Innovation fits with a designer’s definition of design: the ability to move from the existing to the preferred. Innovation is the path by which we seek the future we prefer.

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Conditions for innovation to succeed

Jeffrey Phillips

It's actually not possible to write a short post about innovation, much less the conditions necessary for innovation to succeed, but I've tried to simplify this into nine critical factors for success. With those basics in mind, you can do a lot of good innovation. And, the work isn't free and requires air cover.

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12 Types of Innovation You Should Know in 2021

IdeaScale

What are the different types of innovation? With so many types of innovation and even more definitions, it can be confusing to discuss innovation in your organization. It seems like new innovation types arrive at the scene all of the time, leaving people reaching for Google to get up to speed. Social Innovation.

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Innovation: management versus enablement

Jeffrey Phillips

Rather than attempt to fully explore the innovation possibilities, managers first attempt to get a handle on what they believe innovation is, and how it should be conducted, managed and governed. Large corporations cannot survive with wild hare ideas sprouting everywhere and little definitive structure or guidance.

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Innovation fundamentals: using time effectively

Jeffrey Phillips

I've written previously about having a bias for innovation in your culture , seeking and finding important and unmet needs or opportunities , and introducing discovery and exploration in your innovation process. Agile, lean and rapid methodologies meant to accelerate the innovation cycle?

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Innovation and N "X" D

Jeffrey Phillips

And you can have any innovation you like, incremental or disruptive, as long as it results in a tangible product. We've even got separate names for the different activities: "fuzzy front end" where ideas are generated, and "new product development, or NPD" for the activities where the ideas are converted into products.