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Seven Strong Reasons not to Innovate

Destination Innovation

Innovation is risky. Most radical innovations fail so let’s just keep making our current products and services better. We have surveyed our customers and they like our current offerings. No customers have asked for a radical new approach. Everyone is very busy. We don’t like failure.

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Can AI Help Your Company Innovate? It Depends

Harvard Business Review

To investigate, we researched how companies are using AI for innovation and found that tools are just tools — success depends on how organizations use these new tools now at their disposal.

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Uncharted Waters Disrupting the Corporate Boardrooms

Paul Hobcraft

In this report, they surveyed 614 global board professionals from a total of 50 countries during the period covered from November 2015 through to February 2016 and then published in February 2016. A lack of understanding innovation in all its forms is coming back to haunt them. Is radical innovation a bulleted point at board meetings?

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What do we expect from Innovation? Mostly disappointment

Paul Hobcraft

The article was “ Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. ” The survey was conducted asking over 5,000 board members from around the world asking “do they do enough to support innovation?”. Innovation is well behind many other issues being focused upon by directors. So Why Isn’t It?”

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Are we playing snakes and ladders with innovation?

Paul Hobcraft

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. The game came to mind as I read through a recent survey on Innovation. We should be getting worried that many bigger companies are losing the innovation game.

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Innovation and Organizational Culture

Tim Kastelle

Recently, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has published key findings of their latest “ Most Innovative Companies 2014 ” survey. According to BCG’s research, successfully innovating companies approach innovation as a system. Breakthrough innovators (i.e. Tellis, Jaideep C. Prabhu and Rajesh K.

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages. More than 70 percent have a different organizational entity for managing radical innovation. (…). Accenture: 2015 US Innovation Survey.