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Building Capacity for Breakthrough Innovation

Innov8rs

This distinction is crucial because the management systems, support structures, and resources required to nurture breakthrough innovations differ significantly from those needed for more incremental changes. Organizations must develop a capability for breakthrough innovation that goes beyond traditional R&D functions.

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Case Study: Regional SME Development Project Brings Innovation Lift to Manufacturing Hub

Innovation 360 Group

While they don’t have the same resources as large corporations, SMEs can potentially be quite innovative. The EU funded-development project was launched in 2016 with 8.2 The project ran for 30 months, with the first half focused on assessment and strategy, and the second on implementation and value creation.

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Calling all innovators: Africa’s electricity market is ripe for market-creation

Christensen Institute

In 2021 , stimulus spending meant to spur investment in energy projects was still falling short of what was needed to ensure a sustainable recovery from the crisis. Tolarum provided their own power, built their own transportation networks, and invested millions in training their staff. A silver lining.

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Evolution of Hyperloop: Propelling innovation the Elon Musk way

hackerearth

While it will take another 6-9 months for the project to begin, we took a look at something similar and audacious he had proposed a few years earlier—the Hyperloop. The aim was to understand how Musk makes these radical innovations possible and how exactly he propels innovation. Evolution of the Hyperloop.

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

This needs significant process redesign and the redesign into small, nimble teams and cross-trained groups who collectively gather around a problem to solve it and then disperse and reform in different shape and form to address the next need. The road you take will decide where innovation is heading for you.

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PESTLED360: Iron Out Key Driving Forces in Your Current Environment and Anticipate Future Ones

Innovation 360 Group

Alternatively, Innovation Strategic Initiatives (those that need to be explored) are the hunting ground for innovation, which typically is what we call radical innovation. Incremental and radical innovations can be anything from services and products to business models and processes.

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Striking Gold: The $40m Idea Unearthed Through Crowdsourcing

Qmarkets

We recently caught up with Juan Fernando Correa, the Projects Analyst at Hochschild who is responsible for leading the company’s crowdsourcing initiatives. I am a Projects Analyst at Hochschild, but I trained as a mechanical engineer. Please could you start by telling us a bit about yourself and Hochschild Mining as a whole?