Author: Jan Spruijt

Ten Types of Innovation Infographic

Ten Types of Innovation Infographic

Jan Spruijt

By far one of the most interesting books on innovation of the last few years is “Ten Types of Innovation: the discipline of building breakthroughs” by Keeley. At the time of publishing he was director of the firm Doblin, however the firm has recently been acquired by Deloite. The Ten Types of Innovation explain different forms of innovation, bundles in three categories. Because I believe this book should be present on everyone’s desk, I have created an infographic that is inspired by the framework of the Ten Types.

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Agile Methods in a New Area of Innovation Management and Business Modeling.

Jan Spruijt

This article by Link and Lewrick (2014), presented at the Science-to-Business Marketing Conference, provides an interesting overview of the possibilities of Agile Methods in Innovation Management. The authors propose that Agile Methods should not be used in R&D only, but also in fields like organizational culture, management style, structures, effective working and cunstomer relationships.

Preliminary results indicate that using their methodology for Agile Business Models creates more than 100% growth in new business results year-to-year, 100 times cost reduction, innovative solutions, brand image growth and reduction of process life cycles.

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6 Lessons that Innovation Managers could learn from Louis van Gaal

Jan Spruijt

This article was written before the powerful match against Spain last Friday and states that there are 6 reasons why Louis van Gaal can beat Spain: the lessons from Louis van Gaal. These lessons also translate perfectly to Innovation Managers. These are the 6 management lessons from Louis van Gaal to Innovation Managers:

1. An Innovation Manager is nodest
2. An Innovation Manager puts the individual in the middle
3. An Innovation Manager understands the power of the media
4. An Innovation Manager puts proces before outcome
5. An Innovation Manager embraces life-long-learning
6. An Innovation Manager changes tactics

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10 Years of Open Innovation Research

Jan Spruijt

This scientific publication by Bogers and Chesbrough provides an interesting and pragmatic overview of 10 years of scientific research towards Open Innovation. It uses trends graphs, wordclouds and most cited articles to clarify the development of the expertise.

Topics include:
– Intra-organizational Individual : Group/Team , Project , Functional area , Business unit
– Organizational Firm : Other (non-firm) organization, Strategy , Business model
– Extra-organizational: External stakeholders, individual, community, organization
– Inter-organizational: Alliance , Network , Ecosystem
– Industry: Industry development , Inter-industry differences
– Regional innovation systems: Local region, Nation , Supra-national institution
– Society: Citizens, Public policy

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Source: Bogers & Chesbrough, 2014
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Source: Bogers & Chesbrough, 2014

Where does ‘The Innovation Funnel’ come from? A short history.

Jan Spruijt

This great article from 2011 by Gerry Katz provides us with an overview of the different models that have been developed around innovation processes and New Product Development. In short:
— 1980: New Product and Development Service Process (Hauser)
– 1986: Stage Gate (Cooper)
– 1992: Innovation Funnel (Wheelwright & Clark)
– 1992: New Product Development Funnel (McGrath)
– 2005: Innovation Funnel (MIT)

And he proposes a new design in the end. The article, however, misses the evolution of Open Innovation.

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University R&D doesn’t create economic growth

Jan Spruijt

“It is not clear, then, that university-based research necessarily leads to the economic payoffs that governments expect,” the report concludes. “But it does point out that investment in research can lead to higher-quality university education and so improve a country’s “human capital”.”

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The Innovator Dating Service

Jan Spruijt

This is an interesting article about the role of big data in HR departments and the effect it could have on innovation processes. “In this way, these HR divisions have essentially become dating services. They believe that they will discover their next generation of innovators by using algorithms that evaluate how well potential recruits align with a pre-determined set of qualities that they’re looking for in a match.”

Have you seen HR using big data in this way?

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Immediacy, Accuracy, Innovation – It’s Required

Jan Spruijt

An interesting post by Scott MacFarland in the Huffington Post explains why immediacy and accuracy are important factors in the innovation process: “As innovation becomes a necessity for survival, so will immediacy and accuracy characteristics that make up the innovative process and the product. Innovation is not just something that can be bought and sold like nearly everything in our consumer-driven culture; it requires immediacy and accuracy to be injected into every aspect of the entire company.”

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Business Model Innovation: Ten Lessons from Nonprofits

Jan Spruijt

What keeps business leaders up at night? If it’s not their company’s ability to streamline operations and lower costs, it’s whether their teams have the vision to see future opportunities and the flexibility to pursue those opportunities faster and more profitably than competitors.

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