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Please, we need a different Innovation narrative

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation “fights” to attract resources, gain management attention or understand its difficulties in the time it takes, its potential risks and its need for a more ambitious and bold commitment of support. Often innovation activity frustrates senior management. What we see increasingly is “innovation ecosystems.”

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Barriers to innovation, the cause and effect.

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation is one of those activities that constantly “swim against the currents of the dominating culture of the organization” We cripple our creative process as it is often not visible or transparent; the innovative process can be seen as a “black box” by many in the organization; they only can judge the end result.

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Open Innovation: definition, what types and benefits

mjvinnovation

Keep reading to understand in depth what open innovation is and how it can be used in your business! The open innovation concept. In his book, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (Harvard Business School Press – 2003), researcher Henry Chesbrough coined the term Open Innovation.

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Establishing an innovative business platform adoption approach

Paul Hobcraft

” Recently in Stanford Social Innovation Review, an article on the “ Adoption of Innovation ” by Benjamin Kumpf & Emma Proud is well worth the read as adopting any innovation process is a tough, slow one. Diffusion and Adoption of Innovation- theory into reality.

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Accelerate Innovation? Change Your Velocity

eZassi

As a gentle reminder, the definition of acceleration is a change in velocity over time. Do we have the people we need with the skills and support to make an innovation organization flourish? Are they accountable for identifying, championing and developing external innovations through the organization as their primary business role?

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What goes around, comes around, in Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Jeffrey and I believed, even more so today , that the innovation space needs a common starting point – a collaborative reference model. We constructed a four-layered innovation model building around 1) strategy, 2) different necessary innovation approaches, 3) people and culture and 4) processes and platforms.

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Discontinuous Innovation: Transforming Industries & Creating New Markets

Qmarkets

Discontinuous innovation represents a seismic shift in how industries function and evolve. By definition, it refers to the introduction of groundbreaking products or services that fundamentally change market dynamics, often rendering existing solutions obsolete.