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Archives for June 2016

Are There Really Just Ten Types of Innovation?

June 29, 2016 By Bill Kline

As companies are challenged to deliver growth and profitability, they are looking to the emerging field of innovation for insights to achieve these higher levels of performance. The book Ten Types of Innovation by Larry Keeley reports on years of research and identifies ten main patterns or drivers of innovation. These drivers span all aspects […]

Filed Under: Innovation, Product Design & Development Tagged With: Delivering Innovation, Strategy, Success, Value Creation

Agile Systems Engineering as a Model of Innovation and Adaptation

June 28, 2016 By Bill Schindel

“Innovation” is not limited to the context of introducing new commercial products, services, and technologies. We can learn from the study of innovation in more general settings. Human-engineered, human-kludged, and living biological or other natural systems not originated by humans are frequently under pressure to adapt. Those pressures originate in opportunities or competition, predators or […]

Filed Under: Innovation, Strategy & Business Development Tagged With: Corporate Strategy, Delivering Innovation, Portfolio Management, Success

Innovation Made Simple

June 21, 2016 By Bill Kline

The word “innovation” appears everywhere in mission statements, strategy documents, and CEO speeches.  As recognized by Wired, innovation is “the buzzword of the decade in the worlds of business and education.” Innovation may seem simple in concept, but creating a more innovative organization is far from simple in practice. Let’s cut through the blizzard of blog posts […]

Filed Under: Innovation, Leadership, Mindset Tagged With: Delivering Innovation, Leadership, Organizational Competency, Value Creation

Achieving Innovation Success in Phases and Frameworks

June 15, 2016 By Bill Kline

A Boston Consulting Group survey reported that 75 percent of executives surveyed ranked innovation as a top three priority with 22 percent selecting it as their top corporate priority. Despite the importance and priority, many organizations are still early in their work of establishing innovation as a competency as the same executives express a need […]

Filed Under: Innovation, Mindset Tagged With: Corporate Culture, Innovation, Leadership, Organizational Competency

The Magic of the Canvas

June 14, 2016 By Bill Kline

Both business and academic communities have embraced the concept of a one-page canvas as a way to conceptualize new ventures, create innovative designs, and teach entrepreneurial thinking. The popularity of the canvas approach has been sparked by Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas (BMC) [1].  Introduced in 2010, the BMC has been widely adopted in entrepreneurship classrooms, […]

Filed Under: Innovation, Mindset, Product Design & Development Tagged With: Corporate Strategy, Delivering Innovation, Employee Engagement, Value Creation

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