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What is Innovation?

By Tim Kastelle on 5 September 2012 in innovation strategy

People often think it’s weird when they hear that I study innovation – even people in very innovative jobs. The biggest reason for this is mistaking invention for innovation. If you do this, then studying innovation makes no sense at all – what can you learn about the flash of insight, the stroke of genius, [...]

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Procter & Gamble – Using Open Innovation to Become a World Class Innovator

By Tim Kastelle on 30 May 2012 in evolving economic entities, The Innovation Matrix

Note: This is part of a series of posts discussing The Innovation Matrix. See this post for a description of the full model and what can be done with it. We can use The Innovation Matrix to help us understand how the innovation capability of firms evolves over time. A great case study in this [...]

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Innovation is the Process of Idea Management

By Tim Kastelle on 14 May 2010 in innovation

Here are a number of actual quotes from this week. On Monday, Mark and I had a research meeting with a colleague in the business school who does business process research. When Mark asked if she has ever looked at innovation, she said: I haven’t, because innovation isn’t a process, is it? After a bit [...]

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