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The Ten Types of Innovation

Destination Innovation

Incremental innovation is an improvement in an existing thing (e.g. Radical innovation is finding an entirely new way of doing something. For example if you had been making spectacles in the 1950s then plastic lenses instead of glass lenses would have been an incremental innovation. product, process or service).

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Eight Ways to Adopt Radical Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

Eight Ways to Adopt Radical Innovation. At the heart of true innovation, however, is the need to continually birth new ideas, and new ways of doing things. Radical Innovation. Innovative leaders use creative problem solving to achieve the new vision of the future. They question everything. Focus on Details.

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Monitor Your Innovation Capability in these Three Areas

Destination Innovation

Of these how many are incremental new products or extensions of existing lines and how many are radical innovations? Other useful metrics include: What is the innovation cycle time i.e. how long does it take for an idea to go from conception to implementation? How many people are engaged in innovation activities?

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The Many Types of Innovation

Destination Innovation

Incremental innovation is an improvement in an existing thing (e.g. Radical innovation is finding an entirely new way of doing something. For example if you had been making spectacles in the 1950s then plastic lenses instead of glass lenses would have been an incremental innovation. product, process or service).

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Eight Ways to Adopt Radical Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

Eight Ways to Adopt Radical Innovation. At the heart of true innovation, however, is the need to continually birth new ideas, and new ways of doing things. Radical Innovation. Innovative leaders use creative problem solving to achieve the new vision of the future. They question everything. Focus on Details.

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Breaking the patterns for innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

These innovations are primarily based on the old models and patterns but with a new, compelling value proposition. Even what we might consider really radical innovations either build or adopt concepts from the previous pattern or they are well-conceived and relatively complete and holistic new patterns.

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15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using

Idea to Value

What it is: One of the most important theories of innovation, but one which is usually completely misunderstood. But I would also recommend the following books: 8 – Effective Brainstorming. What is it: Every company knows about brainstorming. This should always be done instead of traditional brainstorming.

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