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

Christensen Institute

Falling costs in renewable energy is bringing it within Africa’s reach; yet minimizing the number of people lacking access to electricity, and modernizing and promoting sustainable clean energy across Africa will still require radical innovation improvement.

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Customer Orientation Effects on Innovation

Integrative Innovation

Danneels studies the effects of customer orientation on a firm’s innovativeness. For example, cordless telephones were a radical innovation relative to wired phones because they were based on a substantially new technology; however, their customer base was essentially the same. Kopalle and E.

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

And it looks like I have a point here… After being discounted by many innovation practitioners in my sphere for some time, the concept of organizational ambidexterity is now finally gaining traction with rising speed. More than 70 percent have a different organizational entity for managing radical innovation. (…).

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

Innovation 360

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. In my studies I divided the companies into two groups: SMEs and larger companies.

Company 40
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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

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., Disruptive innovations are innovations that radically change existing structures and markets (Pisano, 2015).

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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. In my studies I divided the companies into two groups: SMEs and larger companies.

Company 40
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Reinnovation of the Major Automotive Players Through Eco Systems, Openness and Platform Design

Innovation 360

For a deeper understanding of blockers and what you can do to innovate in conservative industries have a look at the blog post about the four paradoxes, including The Dr Winterkorn Paradox. is the average answer for R&D cost control for radical innovators and 3.07 Who are the winners – and what can we learn from them?

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