I was reading an article recently that suggested there are basically 4 types of innovation that a company might seek to undertake:
- Product innovation, whereby a new product or service is brought to market or a current one improved;
- Process innovation, whereby processes and procedures are modified to make them more efficient
- Positioning innovation, whereby a product or service stays fundamentally the same but is sold to a different market or as a different proposition
- Paradigm innovation, whereby an innovation is effectively disruptive and facilitates some form of fundamental change
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Posted by admin on 02/03/2010 at 13:37 under Development.
Tags: change, focus, green wash, industry, innovation, it, management, paradigm, position, procedure, process, product, Strategy
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Gartner is trying to help us all out with our strategy again, or maybe this is an early “next year prediction” article. Either way Gartner’s top 10 strategic technologies have been published: here. To be honest, my biggest surprise is that there isn’t something newer in here. They seem to have selected only technologies that are relatively mature, and some of them are what I would consider to be positively mainstream. I suppose that in recommending strategy to major corporate customers they are not going to select technology on the bleeding edge. This selection is more “look what you should have been doing this year” than “get on this band wagon now”.
Posted by admin on 27/10/2009 at 21:16 under Development.
Tags: bleeding-edge, leading edge, Strategy, technology
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I have recently read with interest various Gartner hype-cycle reports. There is an example here, and here is wikkipedia’s comment on it. The idea is fairly simple, and based on the adjustment trend that new technology tends to go through towards gaining mainstream adoption. Once a technology is started it tends to gain an undeserved (according to its current capability) reputation to be the best thing that will save the world. As this continues people realise it actually has some limitations, and so it loses credibility rapidly. The story then continues as people realise that it is useful, even with its limitations, and so the reputationbuild again. To anyone that has been around a bit none of this is news. Continue reading ‘The Hype Cycle’ »
Posted by admin on 21/09/2009 at 12:50 under Development.
Tags: analysis, development, future, gartner, hype, method, opinion, process, reputation, Strategy, summary, technology
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