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Businesses face the dilemma dividing resources between protecting the current value chain and developing new value propositions that in time replace the old
Leaders are always in search of that
“Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the ‘things’ that we sell, rather than the individual, social, and cultural experiences that they engender and the value and impact that they have. Design that ignores this is not worthy of the name.” – Bill Buxton Every day, innovation accelerates as technology blurs the borders between physical products and virtual experiences. Society is increasingly mediated by technology. Never before has there been such impetus to be everywhere and do everything all at once. The design process can reconcile technology’s practical function and its influence upon society, helping us to imagine the art of the possible.
Via Stephania Savva, Ph.D, Mark E. Deschaine, PhD
It’s an old line, but David Skok said it bears repeating: Skok is digital advisor to the editor-in-chief of the Boston Globe, and a former Nieman Fellow. He spent his year at Harvard studying and collaborating with the creator of disruptive innovation theory, Clayton Christensen. They co-authored an article about disruption in the news industry. …
Via Marielvi Piñero
Digital innovation is giving rise to new business models. Uber and Airbnb are household names today, when not so long ago we were all learning about the sharing economy. The regulations don’t always evolve as quickly as technological change — at least that’s the perception. So what should policy makers and regulators do? Wharton legal studies and business ethics professor Kevin Werbach, who wrote a policy brief about the topic for the Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative, recently shared his insights into that question with Knowledge@Wharton.
You need that space to come up with the right questions before you apply all of your energies to answering them.
In the fast paced environment of global business, mobile technologies, and ever-expanding expectations of customers - clients and stakeholders developing and sustaining innovation is key to success. How you encourage and promote a culture of innovation, especially during strategic planning, is always a critical topic for any leader. One often overlooked path to innovation is deep partnerships and healthy relationships with your internal and external business and functional partners.
True innovation comes from more than just a cup of coffee, but it's a good place to start.
Via Marc Wachtfogel, Ph.D.
Every big company was a lean and mean startup at one time. Now, confronted with digital disruption all around us, we’re all rushing to rekindle the..
Business strategies – especially in the tradition sense – are rather pushy. If you have a product, your strategy is to explain why a customer should use it. Design thinking as a strategy flips this. Instead of forcing a product on customers, instead, it sees things from the customer’s perspective. A design mindset is not problem-focused, it is solution focused and action-oriented towards creating a preferred future. Design Thinking draws upon logic, imagination, intuition, and systemic reasoning – exploring the possibilities of what could be. This train of thought creates desired outcomes benefiting the end user. When design principles are applied to strategy and innovation the success rate for innovation dramatically improves.
Via John Evans
Skimming through a discussion about what constitutes creativity in the field of instructional design, I noticed a comment a person made. They were claiming
Via Kevin Watson
When it comes to launching an innovation initiative, the people on your team can make or break it.
Via Fernanda Grimaldi
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Why culture is so important to the success of your company.
Via Anne Leong
Strategic and organizational factors are what separate successful big-company innovators from the rest of the field.
Via Paco Corma Canós
Wargaming is a competitive scenario exercise that allows teams to delve deeper into identified opportunities, threats, and potential market outcomes. Wargames provide a means to gain a better understanding of market shifts and how they will impact competitor actions. Some examples of questions in the innovation process that can be answered with wargaming include:
I was recently asked the following question: How do you respond to educators who say “the idea of being called upon to develop an innovator’s mindset and to innovative scares me . . . I have the op…
Via Aggeliki Nikolaou, Mark E. Deschaine, PhD
I often speak of my own experience with FrontlineSMS, which took about three years to really get going, and – if I’d taken funding and committed to deadlines and deliverables early on – how it would likely have not made it that long. As a product, maybe it just needed three years to bed in, to take hold in the imagination of its users, for news to filter down. If that’s the case, then speeding up the process through an accelerator of some kind would have been counterproductive, and perhaps also have led to an early demise. Sometimes things just take time. It begs the question: How many potentially great products have died prematurely because they weren’t given the time? Or because they were rushed? What proportion of projects do accelerators kill compared to those they genuinely accelerate?
Via David Hain
The most innovative companies embed experimentation in their strategy and extract maximum learning from their mistakes. How can you be more like them?
Interpersonal skills are a prerequisite for harnessing outside-the-box thinking on behalf of others, and they’re just as important as math, science and technology training.
While the importance of innovation is crystal clear for many organizations, daily execution usually remains challenging. When renewing products, services or business processes, companies often encounter the same obstacles. But what if companies could learn from each other? Can innovation be streamlined by sharing successes and failures? That’s precisely what the first CREAX innovation roundtable was determined to find out. In collaboration with Oracle, we gathered a diverse group of innovation professionals for a lively debate on how to move from theorizing to getting things done. This is what we learned.
Via Mark E. Deschaine, PhD
As a researcher who studies technology use by companies, I wanted to understand what happened. Who kept up? Who fell behind? And why? I considered the fact that while leaders do enjoy economies of scale in the adoption of new technologies, they may also find that adjustment costs — tasks like tweaking processes to match the flow of new software (or vice versa), hiring employees with new skill sets, or coordinating new points of contact across the organization — may increase with scale. Getting value-chain partners on board is essential for innovation and e-business success.
When it comes to innovation management, I see a growing number of companies in emerging countries like Turkey, Mexico and Brazil doing a better job than their counterparts in developed (primarily Western) countries. There are many reasons for this and here you get some of my observations.
“ Innovation ” may be a buzzword today, but for a long time, the concept was decidedly unpopular. Believe it or not, the mere notion
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