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8 Types of Innovation in Business: A Comprehensive Guide

Qmarkets

Broad Categories of Innovation At the heart of the innovation spectrum lie two broad categories that encapsulate the range of strategies businesses can deploy: incremental innovation and radical (including disruptive) innovation.

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3 Ways to View Your Innovation Basket

Innovation Excellence

(including one that makes Radical Innovation easy) GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You are a rolling stone, and that means you gather no moss!

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. In particular for industrial products this, in turn, has been stimulated by maturing 3D printing technologies. Incremental innovation : Even in highly mature industries, such as automotive, experimentation gains ever more importance.

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Does culture eat strategy for breakfast?

Innovation 360 Group

The perception of a gang of wired people in white coats doing the “innovation thing” is widespread, but nothing, based on data from 6,000+ companies in 62 countries, could be more wrong. In fact, strategy, leadership and capabilities are the foundation but culture is the enabler. Finally, do not buy into oversimplified messages.

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Getting started with Innovation Metrics

Strategos

We define: Input metrics – measure those variables which set the preconditions for successful innovation. We measure these in terms of money, talent, and time devoted to innovation. Align your metrics with the goals of your innovation program. Are you seeking game-changing, radical innovation or incremental innovation or both?

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Is it REALLY disruptive? It matters.

Innovation Excellence

At the recent ISPIM conference, I sat in several presentations ostensibly describing approaches to disruptive innovation when, in reality, it was difficult to see what (a market or a company) was actually being disrupted. They were really talking about breakthrough or radical innovation.

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Why organization matters for Innovation Success

Innovation 360

The perception of a gang of wired people in white coats doing the “innovation thing” is widespread, but nothing, based on data from 6,000+ companies in 62 countries, could be more wrong. In fact, strategy, leadership and capabilities are the foundation but culture is the enabler. Finally, do not buy into oversimplified messages.