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Treat Your Innovation Pipeline just like your Sales Pipeline

Destination Innovation

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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Connecting innovating value comes from Ecosystem thinking

Paul Hobcraft

We are witnessing a very radical change, driven by technology, increasingly disrupting and breaking down past traditional boundaries, partly built to defend positions so as to achieve economic scale. These are: The constant exponential of technology and its power to change is forcing up to change.

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Can AI Help Your Company Innovate? It Depends

Harvard Business Review

To investigate what kinds of innovation AI worked with, the authors performed two studies: first, a survey of 331 firms for practices on process improvement and new technology development, and second, an archival analysis of patent data on new technology development for a broader sample of more than 2,000 publicly traded firms.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

Business Models in the context of Innovation A common way to differentiate innovations is the categorization according to two generic characteristics: 1. The object of innovation 2. A business model innovation is defined as the conscious change of at least two dimensions of the introduced “Magic Triangle”. Christensen C.

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Creative Construction – Book review

The Inovo Group

Every now and then a book on innovation is published that deserves to be put on the innovator’s bookshelf along with other seminal writings about innovation. Disruptive Innovation – Requires a new business model but not a technological breakthrough. Now the real work begins. [1]

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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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How to Reboot Your Innovation System

Cris Beswick

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. The fifth stage focuses on building innovation aptitude and developing a detailed implementation roadmap.

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