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Treat Your Innovation Pipeline just like your Sales Pipeline

Destination Innovation

Who is the competition? Estimates for each of these questions enable a total sales forecast to be assembled and reviewed. The pipeline is regularly reviewed at executive level. Can we crack the technology? This is reasonably straightforward for incremental innovations but particularly hard for radical innovations.

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The New Innovation Need: Organizing within a Networks of Collaborators

Paul Hobcraft

Technology offers them the transforming means but can they, as leaders, take their people with them? Yet the prize can be a sustaining competitive position unable to be matched due to this ecosystem lock-in of vested parties. Today larger organizations are having to face the stark truth. Either they adapt or die.

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Innovation cannot expand without the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

To do this, technology adoption and diffusion across the ecosystem needs to improve dramatically. The WEF wants to create a neutral, learning platform, which provides the best technical and organizational insights with respect to 4IR technologies in manufacturing to accelerate the delivery of the benefits, to give a sort of safe harbor.

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The New Innovation Need: Organizing within a Networks of Collaborators

Paul Hobcraft

Technology offers them the transforming means but can they, as leaders, take their people with them? Today we do have this tantalizing prospect, full of innovation promise, well within our reach with today’s technology potential. Today larger organizations are having to face the stark truth. Either they adapt or die.

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What do we expect from Innovation? Mostly disappointment

Paul Hobcraft

The survey exposes the myth that innovation is not one of the three top challenges, innovation ranks fifth as it follows the more conventional concerns of managing talent as the top (and that did surprise me) and regulatory and competitive threats. Innovation is full of rhetoric and hot air.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the perfusion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive.

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Choosing your direction of travel

Paul Hobcraft

So from what I can see so far, change is highly constrained: Evolution is slow, revolution is seemingly non-existent due to narrow vested interests. Digital connections and technology platforms. Individual actions, however noble, does have other consequences pushed down the value chain.