By permission of the Doblin Group For many years, executives equated innovation with the development of new products. But creating new products is only one way to innovate, and on its own, it provides the lowest return on investment and the least competitive...
Short programme Innovation Planning & Management Developing a clear and coherent innovation plan and accessing the key tools to implement it. Programme Overview Innovative businesses thrive. They create and capture superior value over sustained timeframes, and in...
Short programme Building an Innovation Culture Irish firms need to develop an innovation skillset and culture that is embedded throughout the entire organisation to safeguard against potential threats to business performance and compete on a global scale with newly...
by Barry O’Reilly Businesses have always come and gone, but these days it seems that companies can fall from market dominance to bankruptcy in the blink of an eye. Kodak, Blockbuster and HMV are just a few recent victims of the rapid market disruption that...
by Barry O’Reilly Again and again, we hear company founders complain in utter frustration that the larger they grow, the less they accomplish. “We built our first product in three weeks; now we can’t ship a new feature in three months,” they might say....
by Chuck Swoboda When you work at a startup that’s developing fundamentally new technology, you’re fueled by a passion for innovation and a belief that anything is possible. In the early days at Cree, we had very big goals but with very limited resources, so the...
