Qmarkets

MARCH 21, 2025

Breakthrough innovation isnt about minor upgrades or gradual improvements. Companies that achieve it dont just stay ahead of the competition; they set the direction for the future. But what exactly qualifies as breakthrough innovation? How does it differ from other forms of innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Yet, it is how flexible its design and function can allow a more prosperous environment to draw in, work through and evolve into final proposals that can make a huge (competitive) difference. This pressure from the top often conflicts with the bottom-up, who struggle in pushing for recognition of ideas, concepts, resources or support.

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Qmarkets

JULY 18, 2024

McKinsey’s findings suggest that companies fostering a strong culture of innovation excel in leveraging technology and accelerating their competitive differentiation. By strategically launching innovation challenges, companies can foster a culture of innovation and maintain a competitive edge.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 17, 2016

You Need an Innovation Strategy for it to really be seen as a critical resource of an organization. Gary Pisano had an excellent article “ You Need an Innovation Strategy” on HBR. “The first is to answer the question “How are we expecting innovation to create value for customers and for our company?”

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Even if they have agreed on the importance of innovation and have set up teams or departments to develop new value-adding, innovative products and services, these products may end up never being launched because nobody in the existing business units will take responsibility and take the risk of launching them.

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The BMI Lab Blog

AUGUST 3, 2017

This approach is very popular because it reduces the risk that radical innovation usually takes. Moreover, companies with great human capital, resources, and capital find that is much easy for them to follow this innovation path, which brings clear advantages, such as: Helps companies remain competitive.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive. Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation. Cases in point: Lego and Burberry.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 7, 2024

Innov8rs | Breakthrough innovations are characterized by their ability to disrupt or redefine the competitive landscape, often rendering existing solutions obsolete. They represent a radical departure from existing products, services, or processes, paving the way for new markets, industries, and value networks.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2015

There is a very strong case we need to rethink the whole management of our innovation activity, as innovation is failing to deliver on its potential promise in the current ways we are attempting to undertake it, highly constrained and under-resourced. I would suggest on the very way we manage innovation.

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Wazoku

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It’s perhaps safe to say, therefore, that they’ve mastered the art of innovating to derive a competitive advantage. If you can embody the spirit of innovation in one man, it’s perhaps that of Thomas Edison. That’s where differentiated innovation comes into its own.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

Interestingly, the pace of innovation stands among the top three risks in 2015 and tops along with regulatory risk, the list foreseen in 2018. With technology disruption, business model disruption and growing competition, social and customer engagement challenges the ability to manage innovation is growing as a concern and in risk management.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

Interestingly, the pace of innovation stands among the top three risks in 2015 and tops along with regulatory risk, the list foreseen in 2018. With technology disruption, business model disruption and growing competition, social and customer engagement challenges the ability to manage innovation is growing as a concern and in risk management.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Razors have undergone incremental innovations over time Source: The Hustle Incremental innovations may not make headlines, but they’re the steady pulses that keep businesses competitive and responsive to market demands.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

This could for instance be future competitors or collaborators and the force could be competition from new entrants. Operational Strategic Initiatives (those initiatives that need to be executed now) are prioritized by using Impact-Feasibility mapping, making sure to optimize resource usage. This is what we call incremental innovation.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 21, 2021

However, there are also several implicit practices that your company may have in place that are showing employees that innovative ideas are not valued. These are not as easy to see from the surface so it may be wise to involve your Human Resources department to truly dissect the root of these implications.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 21, 2021

However, there are also several implicit practices that your company may have in place that are showing employees that innovative ideas are not valued. These are not as easy to see from the surface so it may be wise to involve your Human Resources department to truly dissect the root of these implications.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

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 big data 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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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

New technologies can be deployed with a swipe of a finger, appearing across billions of devices all over the world, changing market dynamics in a heartbeat, while competition from emerging markets isn’t just producing cheaper goods and copycat products, but radically redefining the terms of production and distribution.

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Unlike chess, in a real battle you have no idea what capabilities the enemy has until you do a great deal of competitive intelligence. That might sound like common sense, yet countless businesses enter the competitive arena every year without even trying to inventory their own capabilities let alone what they are up against.

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Integrative Innovation

JUNE 15, 2017

Lippitz the term is defined as the process by which teams within an established company conceive, foster, launch and manage a new business that is distinct from the parent company but leverages the parent’s assets, market position, capabilities or other resources.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 1, 2024

It defines the types of innovations the company aims to pursue, whether they’re incremental improvements to existing products, disruptive technologies that can redefine the market, or entirely new business models. This strategy also specifies the resources, both financial and human, that will be allocated to support these initiatives.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 25, 2020

Assume that you have a number of projects that you want to execute, and you have a number of resources that can be used to execute them (resources such as innovation managers, or programmers). If the resources can be organized so all projects can be optimally executed without any interdependencies (i.e., Interdependency.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 1, 2024

Business innovation refers to the process of implementing new ideas, workflows, methodologies, services, or products to improve a company’s operations and boost its competitive advantage. This early adoption can lead to a competitive advantage, allowing businesses to offer cutting-edge solutions before their rivals.

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Cris Beswick

JULY 10, 2024

At the time of writing, our core argument was this; “in today’s global digital age, innovation has moved from being a “nice to have” to a strategic imperative for business success and survival. Innovation requires a balanced portfolio across incremental, differentiated and radical innovation.

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hackerearth

MARCH 28, 2018

Innovation is the key to gaining and sustaining competitive advantage, especially in today’s fast-paced, tech-fueled business ecosystem. Traditionally, many organizations used their own knowledge monopoly to innovate and deliver dominant technologies and products to the market. You can get more meaningful insights.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

This could for instance be future competitors or collaborators and the force could be competition from new entrants. The Operational Strategic Initiatives are prioritized by using Impact-Fesabilty mapping, making sure to optimize resource usage. This is what we call incremental innovation.

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ImagineNation

JUNE 3, 2024

It did not set me up for success, nor did it set me up for maximising the importance of self-efficacy and self-mastery when on an innovation roller-coaster ride. I had not undertaken sufficient research studies to determine if users wanted and were ready to accept a radical innovation.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 9, 2020

Those that follow this model often collaborate with FinTechs and start-ups through various means: innovation fairs, competitions, and small seed investments, to identify prospects. Evidence points to two areas in particular – capabilities surrounding radical innovation and the breadth of innovation culture.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 3, 2014

Competitive advantage comes from innovative ways of creating, capturing, and delivering value. Cross-disciplinarity and resource diversity. The innovation process aims at matching problems/needs and solutions. Think beyond the product to the full offering and business model. Act on the learning.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 18, 2016

The optimism, staying ready to adapt, be flexible but also the underlying ‘steel’ to be assertive, creative and determined to push something through, to overcome the many barriers and resistance that comes with exploring more radical innovation. These attributes need nurturing and supporting and this is where a clear sponsor comes in.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 18, 2016

The optimism, staying ready to adapt, be flexible but also the underlying ‘steel’ to be assertive, creative and determined to push something through, to overcome the many barriers and resistance that comes with exploring more radical innovation. These attributes need nurturing and supporting and this is where a clear sponsor comes in.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 14, 2022

Regardless of size or scale though, many businesses struggle to decide whether they should invest their resources in innovation or improvement. Innovation can happen quickly, (known as radical innovation), or it can take place over time, (incremental innovation). Product Innovation. The Five Whys.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 19, 2018

Every one of us has full access to an infinitely varied and vastly underused resource: Innovation. That is not only possible but inevitable, as Rosling proved, as long as we maintain our current pace of innovation. The problem is in assigning an intelligent priority to proposed innovations in a world of limited resources.

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Innovation 360

JUNE 20, 2018

Every one of us has full access to an infinitely varied and vastly underused resource: Innovation. That is not only possible but inevitable, as Rosling proved, as long as we maintain our current pace of innovation. The problem is in assigning an intelligent priority to proposed innovations in a world of limited resources.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

The MoshPit system seeks to find combinations of concepts that lead to innovation. Digital technology holds promise to improve, or radically innovate, many areas of an organizational value chain. To discover radically new applications for digital tech what’s needed is taking a comprehensive look across all operations.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 17, 2024

The power of discontinuous innovation lies in its ability to transform not just business operations but also market landscapes, offering immense opportunities for companies that dare to lead the charge. This concept, often used interchangeably with radical and disruptive innovation, has nuances worth understanding.

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Integrative Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The study authors differentiate between three types of Digital Innovation Units : Innovation Lab : Bundling of company-internal resources in one or more interdisciplinary. teams for repeated identification and prototyping of digital innovations. Recommendartions for action: Innovation Labs.

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