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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

Executing this shift to digital is central and very complex, as it is involving the whole Enterprise. They point out that since 2014, only four types of innovation and that are all related to digital, have grown increasingly in importance in their pursuit by companies. So the need to innovate comes from digital as the source.

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Innovation cannot expand without the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

To do this, technology adoption and diffusion across the ecosystem needs to improve dramatically. The WEF wants to create a neutral, learning platform, which provides the best technical and organizational insights with respect to 4IR technologies in manufacturing to accelerate the delivery of the benefits, to give a sort of safe harbor.

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

The BMI Lab Blog

In 1994 Peter Drucker defined business models as “stories that explain how enterprises work” and answer the age-old questions of Peter Drucker’s Theory of Business – “Who is the customer? Business Models in the context of Innovation A common way to differentiate innovations is the categorization according to two generic characteristics: 1.

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Digital Transformation Combines Customer Experience and Operational Efficiency

Integrative Innovation

Woerner surveyed several hundred enterprises, examining both the capabilities needed for digital business transformation and the impacts on performance. Becoming ‘future-ready’ requires changing the enterprise on two dimensions – customer experience and operational efficiency.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

Reinvention through business model innovation. Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the perfusion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. Let’s remind: One size does not fit all.

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Bringing better Ideas to market faster with AI

Innovation 360 Group

Using Technology to Push the Boundaries of Creativity . The clustering process is a crucial step in finding interesting idea combinations, and it is often in this step that we discover the seeds for what has the potential to become radical innovations (those that bring significant change).

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Organizing for Simultaneous Innovation Capability – key findings from +1,000 companies, republished from Drucker Forum 2016

Innovation 360 Group

A fter collecting and studying innovation data from over 1,000 companies in 62 countries, I’m often asked whether Small and Midsize Enterprises (SME) are more innovative and entrepreneurial than larger corporations. H3 is the explorative style: needs are investigated on a deeper level and new technology used to disrupt.

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