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Convergence of technologies creates the opportunity for disruptive business models, Steve Bone reviews an article in Prism which identifies a number of potential scenarios for the chemical industry.
Manufacturing companies have increasingly shifted towards offering industrial product-services. Authors of this paper report that although simple add-on services offer a limited impact, more advanced services are significantly associated with positive financial performance.
The practices of 100 innovative companies were reviewed in this paper, which looks at how innovation has become a major brand differentiator.
Orona-EIC made an analysis of the impact of particular Innovation Management Tools on its cooperative research model. It found the most valuable tools to be: collaborative project management, portfolio management, roadmapping, scenario techniques.
A ‘fast-start’ method for technology roadmapping discussed in this paper, provides a means for improved understanding of the architecture of roadmaps and for rapidly initiating roadmapping in a variety of organizational contexts, says Clare Farruk
The collaborative industrial-academic development of management toolkits is still a novel concept, writes Clare Farrukh. She introduces a paper that discusses the potential of these tools. Key principles for developing
Design thinking is challenging because it involves something more fundamental than managing change: It involves discovering what change is needed. Rick Mitchell has found this paper in Harvard Business Review of interest.
With the increase in use of online ideation platforms to harness creativity, it is important that ideas are fairly judged, without bias, and that the truly best ones bubble up to the top, comments Phil Kennedy.
The most effect bringers of new external ideas into an organisation, comments Phil Kennedy are individuals that are not only tech-savvy but business-savvy. He reviews a paper on absorptive capacity and offers learning points for new product development.
The leadership style of the innovation team leader – learning goal or performance goal – sets the team’s ambition for front-end innovation, Peter Robbins found; “for genuinely novel, original ideas a learning motivation is needed.”
Why do some industry standards become widely accepted and others sidelined? This was one of the questions addressed by Geerten van de Kaa and colleagues in a paper about the role of networks in supporting dominance of some standards.
By integrating strategic, tactic and operational perspectives of innovation a model can be developed that promotes a structured approach to innovation management
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