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12 Types of Innovation You Should Know in 2021

IdeaScale

Social Innovation. Social innovation refers to both the new strategies, concepts and ideas innovated to meet the social needs of society (including, but not limited to, working conditions, education, health, and community development) as well as the social processes of innovation, including open innovation techniques.

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8 Types of Innovation in Business: A Comprehensive Guide

Qmarkets

Innovation isn’t just about the next big idea; it’s a multifaceted strategy that businesses employ to navigate through the twists and turns of today’s dynamic markets. Whether it’s tweaking a product to perfection or revolutionizing an industry standard, innovation comes in many flavors.

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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.

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

The BMI Lab Blog

This notion is commonly referred to as the customer value proposition (Johnson et al. Evolutionary innovations are incremental improvements in the performance of existing products along the mainstream customer requirements in existing markets with existing competencies and the current business model (Christensen et al.,

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How Human Resources Can Drive Innovation?

Ankush Chopra

Borrowing from the Week’s podcast episode In this week’s podcast, I discussed insights from management science research on radical innovations. We talked how radical innovations are challenging because firms lack the needed absorptive capacity. One of the key lessons from the podcast was about absorptive capacity.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

Another example is the recently introduced strategy framework by Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha from BCG. Here, dedicated strategies and innovation approaches are defined for different business environments, characterized by the factors predictability, malleability and harshness (see figure below).

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

The first time I was advocating the idea of a dual innovation approach, here also referred to as organizational ambidexterity, is now more than 5 years ago. Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages.