Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

(including one that makes Radical Innovation easy) GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You are a rolling stone, and that means you gather no moss!

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 26, 2014

There is a lot of dicussion around how customer orientation effects innovation. The most extreme assertion is to “ignore the customer” in order to not becoming distracted from true innovativeness by getting too close to customers, limiting innovation to incremental new offerings. A research paper by V.

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Defining innovation. Economist Joseph Schumpeter famously defined the term as, “Innovation is creative destruction where entrepreneurs combine existing elements in new ways.” Many people view innovation as spontaneous, unorganized and unpredictable. Building a culture of innovation. Why do we innovate?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

I believe we need a new way to manage risk within our innovation activities. This post here is the third and last part , part three, where I lay out different mechanisms and framing of risk and innovation. We need to formulate a more robust risk innovation framework. Risk is becoming an evolving capability.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

I believe we need a new way to manage risk within our innovation activities. This post here is the third and last part , part three, where I lay out different mechanisms and framing of risk and innovation. We need to formulate a more robust risk innovation framework. Risk is becoming an evolving capability.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 7, 2019

CPG brands aren’t always associated with innovation, though they may be associated with innovation on a small scale. This could be where you’ll find exciting new consumer innovations in coming years. Here are some of the challenges that CPG brands face with innovation and how to overcome them.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 4, 2019

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. What about innovation, how does it get applied if the focus is on best practices? What kind of culture do I want to create and sustain and why?

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Qmarkets

JULY 18, 2024

Companies with structured innovation processes significantly outperform their peers in implementing new ideas and driving business growth. McKinsey’s findings suggest that companies fostering a strong culture of innovation excel in leveraging technology and accelerating their competitive differentiation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 20, 2016

All too often strategy is not influencing the behaviours and outcomes around innovation, it is simply allowing them to be left to chance. Innovation is being ‘pushed down’ the organisation for others to interpret and offer their answers. This poor strategic understanding creates a lack of alignment and directing innovation.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 6, 2019

Just about everyone wants more creativity and innovation these days. While most companies agree that innovation is vital, few actually spend time creating structures or devising rewards systems hinged on creativity. Bahcall’s book argues that the first step is to balance innovation with execution.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

At the beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts.

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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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Integrative Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

Recently, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has published key findings of their latest “ Most Innovative Companies 2014 ” survey. Beside the annual ranking, headed by the top three companies Apple, Google and Samsung, some insightful outcomes with regard to organizational and cultural requirements have striked my eye.

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Innovation 360 Group

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Innovations are infinite, even within a finite market. However, not all innovations start with the same chance at a fully productive lifecycle. Culture is the key to any successful organization but by itself is not enough to stay on top in a hyper-competitive world. Next Level of AI-Driven Innovation Management.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

What is Discontinuous Innovation? An innovative product, service, or process that dramatically transforms an existing market by introducing a groundbreaking concept or technology. Innovation Strategy is the foundation for company growth and adaptability in the ever-changing environment that is business today.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

The first time I was advocating the idea of a dual innovation approach, here also referred to as organizational ambidexterity, is now more than 5 years ago. As recently outlined, I consider organizational ambidexterity to be a key innovation issue for organizations in 2016 and beyond.

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Innovation 360 Group

MARCH 10, 2019

While much has been written on choosing the most promising innovation project and helping it succeed in the market after implementation, one crucial step in the middle hasn’t received enough attention: how to actually get the job done and done well. Radical Innovators more adaptive. Leadership styles used deliberately.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 25, 2024

It’s natural to consider education and innovation as mutually compatible. It’s surprising, then, that many academic institutions still lag when it comes to implementing well-structured innovation processes. Innovation in Education: A Proud History DNA, Genetic Fingerprinting, CDs, Computers, and the Internet.

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Integrative Innovation

JUNE 15, 2017

Research shows that growth fueled through organic innovation is more profitable than growth driven by acquisition, in part because the organizational capability required is vastly different. Enabler programs can support efforts to enhance a company’s culture.

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Cris Beswick

JULY 10, 2024

Having written several books over the past decade and contributed small snippets of thought leadership or entire chapters to over a dozen other books, I still return to the book I wrote with Derek Bishop and Jo Geraghty of Culture Consultancy fame. This is a shocking delta and what I refer to as an innovation growth gap!

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 5, 2016

I’m a little tired of the lack of original thinking that goes into measuring innovation. Leaders want to hear this, the sad true is getting a ‘decent ROI’ for innovation constructed (note constructed) is really hard. If the innovation is new to the world, how can it have a clear financial return on investment until much later?

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 28, 2016

Originally from India the game is a simple race contest based on sheer luck and I am beginning to wonder if we are playing a new version of this with innovation? It just all depends on our luck in rolling the dice, a serendipity with a darker twist that many companies seem to be playing with their innovation capability building.

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Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

This is part three of a three-parts article co-written with innovation-3 ‘s Frank Mattes. The first part highlighted that radical and incremental innovation build on two different innovation set-ups (exploration and exploitation, respect. Analyzing ambidexterity: the “extended innovation funnel” model.

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Integrative Innovation

MARCH 16, 2014

The corresponding integration of incremental and radical innovation can basically be achieved in different ways: Building ambidextrous and lean startup capabilities. Established organizations with larger size usually target at extending their core business by incementally innovating their existing business model.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Innovation — a necessary component of any successful business in the modern world. Regardless of the industry your business falls in, innovation can keep your team ahead of the trends and competitors and foster stability and consistency within your strategy. Building a Robust Innovation Strategy: The 5 Innovation Misconceptions 1.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Every successful company has one thing in common: a deep-seated commitment to innovation. Innovation isn’t just about the next big idea; it’s a multifaceted strategy that businesses employ to navigate through the twists and turns of today’s dynamic markets.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Innovation — a necessary component of any successful business in the modern world. Regardless of the industry your business falls in, innovation can keep your team ahead of the trends and competitors and foster stability and consistency within your strategy. Building a Robust Innovation Strategy: The 5 Innovation Misconceptions 1.

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Wazoku

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

A quick glance at the Most Innovative Companies [1] list at Forbes sees the top three places taken by Salesforce, Tesla and Amazon respectively. It’s perhaps safe to say, therefore, that they’ve mastered the art of innovating to derive a competitive advantage. Building a culture of innovation.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Recently, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has published key findings of their latest “Most Innovative Companies 2014” survey. Beside the annual ranking, headed by the top three companies Apple, Google and Samsung, some insightful outcomes with regard to organizational and cultural requirements have striked my eye.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Our cultures are deep-rooted; we resist those winds blowing into us “full on,” well beyond being reasonable or smart enough to avoid them before they confront us. When an organization decides to change its culture, set about constructing a different climate or environment so innovation can thrive.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In the past week or so, I have been looking a little harder at the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry relating to innovation, it left me a little frustrated. I felt that warm and fuzzy feeling, as I read all too often those comforting words or platitudes of how “innovation is vital to us” and one of the “highest areas of focus.”

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Wazoku

APRIL 5, 2018

The innovation spectrum. Innovation is not one specific thing, it is a spectrum. It can start with small, incremental changes and expand to radical innovation, creating brand new solutions or disrupting an entire industry. How to move up the innovation spectrum? Incremental. Incremental. On the contrary.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Product innovation teams that wish to create radically new products can use six processes to help them. Continue reading →

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InnovationManagement

APRIL 1, 2020

There is no “one size fits all” formula for innovation management success. Demystifying innovation takes experiments and practices. The post Five Innovation Practices appeared first on Innovation Management.

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HYPE Innovation

MARCH 30, 2016

How much focus should innovation efforts and capabilities have in the boardroom? I have been thinking about this after two recent interactions. First, I stumbled over this short intro in a press-release. Three quarters (74%) of employees say their company does not have a strategy, process, and tools in place to encourage the sharing of ideas.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

It’s no secret that in today’s dynamic business landscape, for some, innovation is still just a buzzword – but for others, it’s the lifeblood of their organisation and an antidote to remaining relevant. Undoubtedly, transformation in pursuit of innovation within established corporations is a significant challenge.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 18, 2016

It is tapping into an internal need for everyone involved, to innovate in different and more radical ways. Intrapreneurs and management alike need to be utterly vigilant in attacking these antibodies if they really see value in promoting this intrapreneurial culture. There is no single way to do intrapreneurship.

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