Innovation Management
Innovation usually relies on various methods like focus groups, interviews, surveys, and customer feedback to identify customer needs that haven’t yet been met.…
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Many organizations struggle with aligning their innovation activities with their strategic business goals. More often than not, innovation efforts fail to align…
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The culture and atmosphere in a team can either stimulate a spirit of innovation or destroy the thirst for it. How can you create and positively influence your …
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For decades, crowdsourcing has been an important idea-generation method for many companies. By bringing together a diverse and broad community of people, this t…
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Rowan Gibson wrote a book called “The Four Lenses of Innovation: A Power Tool for Creating Thinking”. This is a book well worth obtaining and working through. W…
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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 ‘p…
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We are caught up in a polarizing world. Technology is either thrilling or frightening. Robots, automation, and intelligent systems can take over thousands of jo…
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Innovation capital is one of the primary catalysts to value creation. And while understanding and investing in innovation capital is crucial, building innovatio…
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“Design thinking draws on logic, imagination, intuition and systemic reasoning to explore the possibilities of what could be, and to create desired outcomes tha…
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It always amazes me how we limit growth by not investing fully in innovation. While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them …
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There are twin forces at work, feeding off each other. We are facing greater disruption and an increasing innovation pace. These are constantly combining, relen…
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Imagine this: You're new to your department. Your boss walks in, stares you in the eye, and, as your palms start to sweat, tasks you with improving the port…
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Let's start with some defining statements and then explore Absorptive Capacity, as it has an important role to play in innovation. Innovation is dependent o…
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We have seen an incredible rise of platforms that have become part of our everyday lives. Whether it's Apple, Google, eBay, Amazon, Android, Facebook, Micro…
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The history of management is littered with outmoded fads, those tools that seem to have a short shelf-life. There are a few that are seemingly enduring, but one…
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Business digital transformation, it can get your pulse racing as you look for the nearest exit. It is being asked of everybody to get involved but have we a suf…
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Innovation stands in service to strategic goals such as growing market share, differentiation and disrupting adjacent markets, serving the consistent changing a…
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Our whole understanding of innovation is changing; there are numerous shifts occurring. We are evaluating and changing our existing focus from closed (internal …
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The pressure for designing a new business core is building- so why do we need to change? From what I have been reading in my research or equally being thinking …
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Anyone who has felt the ‘full force of the wind’ will know the feeling of how hard it is to keep on your feet, to stay determined to stay upright and true, to h…
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It seems so simple doesn’t it - “bringing final ideas to market”. So easy to say, yet it does seem so very hard to achieve. Everything we should be aiming at is…
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