This post was first published as opening post to my new blog, titled Integrative Innovation. Some people I’ve been collaborating with have recently encouraged me to open up an own blog. After having given it some thought, I decided to do so. I’m launching a new site and platform titled “Integrative Innovation” to share ideas [...]
About Ralph-Christian
Experienced innovation, technology and product management professional. Looking at the intersection of organizational and personal innovation capabilities. Integrative thinker. Boundary spanner. Author of the Integrative Innovation blog. You can follow him on Twitter @ralph_ohr.Author Archive | Ralph-Christian
Four Key Issues in Innovation Management
Ralph Ohr & I met up at the end of last year and talked a lot about the state of innovation. These are the four issues that we identified as the ones that we think are the most important/interesting in the field right now.
Why the Future of Innovation is Open
As outlined in my previous post, sustainable innovation requires evolution and revolution. Over the long term, organizations need to be capable of both moving along existing growth trajectories and creating new ones when the old business matures or stalls. This can be depicted as recurring movement along innovation s-curves. In the case of a new [...]
Evolutionary and Revolutionary Innovation
Guest Post: by Ralph-Christian Ohr Triggered by a couple of recent discussions, I’ve been pondering for a while now over the question how evolution relates to revolution when it comes to innovation. In the following, I’ll try to develop my view on this. Let’s define evolution as continuous and incremental innovations of a firm’s existing [...]
Hold Strong Visions Weakly
Guest Post: by Ralph-Christian Ohr Remark : Coincidentally and amazingly, Tim and I were obviously thinking and writing about business model experimentation and pivots at the same time. Hopefully, I can add some complementary thoughts to Tim’s post from yesterday with mine today. In one of my previous posts I discussed the crucial distinction between need [...]
The Intersection of Human and Organizational Innovation Capabilities
Guest post by Ralph Ohr One of my main interests is looking at the intersection of organizational and human capabilities. Business is accomplished through people, thus individual mindset, behavior and capabilities determine organizational performance. When it comes to innovation, a recently published research paper, titled ‘The Bias Against Creativity’ serves as a good example. The findings [...]
What is the Customer’s Role in Breakthrough Innovation?
Guest post by Ralph Ohr There has been quite a lot of discussion recently about a post by Jens Martin Skibsted and Rasmus Bech Hansen, titled “User-Led Innovation Can’t Create Breakthroughs; Just Ask Apple and Ikea”. Their major claim is: “Great brands lead users, not the other way around.” As expected, this lead to controversial [...]
Innovation – A New Match Between Need and Solution
Guest Post: by Ralph-Christian Ohr While revisiting some collected innovation readings, I recognized that it might be important to briefly emphasize again one “fundamental”: the distinction between needs and solutions. According to Christian Terwiesch, co-author of “Innovation Tournaments”, innovation is defined as “… a new match between a need and a solution so that value [...]
Innovation and Ambidexterity
Guest Post: by Ralph-Christian Ohr Tim wrote a post on “Staying Innovative While Growing”. I fully concur with his conclusion: “But it’s another innovation paradox – the small firms that might be most innovative often don’t have the market clout to get their ideas to diffuse. The firms that are big enough to get ideas [...]
Innovation and Human Capabilities
Guest Post: by Ralph-Christian Ohr John Steen wrote a series of posts on why experts and crowds usually miss disruptive innovation and how to use networks to tap expertise and knowledge. I’d like to expand these thoughts a bit more towards the question: what’s the role of human capabilities in innovation? For elaboration, I’m going [...]
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Innovation Lessons from the Rise of Tesla Motors
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Five More Thinkers That I Admire
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Food, Connection & Innovation
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Here is Why You Need Business Model Innovation
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Talk is the Technology of Leadership
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Reframing Failure
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Five Thinkers That I Admire
- Weekly bits of interest – 20 May 2013 | Public Sector Innovation Toolkit: [...] Tim Kastelle takes a look at the interesting...
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Ramon Rivera: I have two new ideas for toyoya cars or for any ot...
- European Design Innovation Platform: Call for proposals | Vizuarna: [...] Here is Why You Need Business Model Innovati...
- Why We Shouldn’t Be Surprised That Managers Don’t Embrace Complexity | Technology: [...] and upend even the most dominant of firms. ...
- Eight Models of Business Models, & Why They’re Important | Blog de Maria Zaghi: [...] http://timkastelle.org/blog/2012/01/eight-mo...
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Xiameter: Thanks for sharing Tim. We are distributors of Do...
- Westrope Leadership Inc. - Reframing Failure - Innovation for Growth - Westrope Leadership Inc.: [...] Click here to view original web page at Refr...
Books
Free eBook! Using the Innovation Matrix
Collects all of my recent posts on the Innovation Matrix.
Tim's book Handbook on the Knowledge Economy, Volume 2, co-edited with David Rooney and Greg Hearn, is out now everywhere in the world. Ask your library for it!
Metrics
Tim was named #5 in the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers in 2011 at Innovation Excellence.
Tim and John were both named in the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers in 2010 at Innovation Excellence.
