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The Ten Types of Innovation

Destination Innovation

Incremental innovation is an improvement in an existing thing (e.g. Radical innovation is finding an entirely new way of doing something. For example if you had been making spectacles in the 1950s then plastic lenses instead of glass lenses would have been an incremental innovation. Channel – how you get to market.

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The Many Types of Innovation

Destination Innovation

Incremental innovation is an improvement in an existing thing (e.g. Radical innovation is finding an entirely new way of doing something. For example if you had been making spectacles in the 1950s then plastic lenses instead of glass lenses would have been an incremental innovation. Channel – how you get to market.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

2005) that the ´failure to adequately define the market is a key factor associated with venture failure´, we identify the definition of the target customer as one central dimension in designing a new business model. Radical innovations are similar to evolutionary innovations - but the leap of innovation is more comprehensive.

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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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What do we expect from Innovation? Mostly disappointment

Paul Hobcraft

I mean anyway “we really don’t believe in innovation, it all is full of risk, uncertainty and those unknowns and that is the last place to go when you are fighting in a different set of market conditions, isn’t it?”. So where does innovation sit within your organization? Two reports recently came out. In Summary.

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The innovation spectrum and where to start

Wazoku

The innovation spectrum. Innovation is not one specific thing, it is a spectrum. It can start with small, incremental changes and expand to radical innovation, creating brand new solutions or disrupting an entire industry. How to move up the innovation spectrum? Incremental. Differentiated.

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Four reasons why corporate startups fail (and how yours can be succesful)

whataventure

BONUS : Download our guide on how to successfully find your first paying customers ). For corporates, radical innovations are, in most cases, a nice-to-have or the cherry on top of the cake. Rarely innovation projects are being prioritized over the daily business. DOWNLOAD GUIDE.