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In my opinion, it needs to be based on the thinking around the shift from products to solutions, from transactions to building far more value-adding ongoing relationships, from a supplier of product services into highly valued network partnerships, exploring innovation across all options. We “pull down” what is needed.
Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovationprocess to be explored and exploited. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive process.
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. It will fundamentally change the type of resources innovation requires.
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Many of those innovation tools that have been emerging in recent years have now built up a powerful body of validation, and they become necessary to know and practice yet often miss the basic building block needs of innovation. A new cycle of innovation. Innovation is seemingly more complex today.
We also know today that innovation management itself must become “fluid” in design, in adaptation so the right approach is to be constantly ‘adaptive’ and put together what is needed to tackle the challenge that needs resolution. Where is innovation within this? We need to design our systems to be highly agile.
We need to consider how bigdata and analytics, technology and a far more creative thinking needs to be applied collectively but in greater constellations of partners. We need to be more agile, iterative , to be encouraged to be extracting, experimenting and exploring. Impact and Intensity become the new mantra.
They are not yet at the point of being digitally effective to turn what they have into real competitive advantage as they lack the capabilities in bigdata analysis and those algorithms that reveal ground-breaking innovations, Are they hanging on in the belief they will become digitally transformed eventually or just deluding themselves?
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So I am exploring here each of these conditions that I believe are coming together for a really important transforming storm built around a new innovation management, increasingly making it the core to the future for growth. If we do recognize all the above forces are converging, then innovation does become central to what we do.
Why is this challenge so different from previous innovation challenges? AI, Analytics, IoT, BigData, Cloud, Mobile, Social Media, Sensors, Robotics, Augmented Reality, Voice Recognition… and the list goes on. Don’t be held back by a restrictive innovationprocess model; be flexible on new ways to innovate.
This shaping of vague ideas into resource-worthy innovation projects is the final step of the MoshPit process. MoshPit integrates well with other innovation frameworks and methods. Digital tech examined as part of the Digital MoshPit process: Blockchain. Data Analytics. Artificial Intelligence. Augmented Reality.
Nevertheless, many market participants still face the enormous challenge of figuring out the blend of all necessary elements and the right mix for a successful innovationprocess. Even fewer have persistently developed and implemented habits and processes that foster sustainable innovation.
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“Open innovation presupposes that companies can and should use external ideas as well as internal paths as they seek to move forward in their innovationprocess. It is the use of intentional inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation and expand markets for external use, “the researcher wrote.
Even if a new innovation structure and strategy is successfully implemented and continues to produce results, ongoing coaching can help companies adapt as new challenges arise. Staying aware and agile can ensure that innovation is a continued process and not a one-off project. ” Virginia Bush.
Operating in unpredictable environments relies on an agile organization , following an adaptive, evolutionary and more bottom-up approach, resembling complex adaptive systems, e.g. in biology. Incremental innovation : Even in highly mature industries, such as automotive, experimentation gains ever more importance.
Most importantly, they will need the right cultural matrix to support agile operations and flexible work. Being unable to successfully select the right projects and kill the wrong ones only clogs the innovation pipeline. This makes the other parts of innovationprocess inefficient.
So, it covers a twenty-five-year period but recognizes that the last five years have seen a very different set of innovation accelerants. The second post , coming next, focuses on how organizations have become more collaborative, open and agile and deal with ideation and what tools and technologies seem to have emerged as the leading ones.
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