Servitization This deep dive explores the growing shift towards a service economy with even large scale manufacturers changing their approach.
patterns of innovation
The changing face of the imaging industry
This is a case study highlighting changes over time across the sector. Imaging case You might also be interested to read the responses of players like Fuji, Polaroid and Kodak.
Activity – Forces for innovation
Forces for innovation This activity explores some of the forces shaping innovation and how they play out over time.
Classifying innovation activity
This is an activity designed to help think about classifying innovation
Sector Innovation Patterns
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Activity – Competence enhancing and competence destroying innovation
Competence enhancing and destroying innovation. This is an activity designed to explore patterns of innovation over time and across industries.
Architectural and component innovation
Innovations can be ‘architectural’ – changes in the ways different things are put together into a whole system. Examples might be a motor car, a mobile phone business, a hospital. And innovations can also be at the ‘component’ level – the parts which go into those systems – for example, the engine, brakes, fuel tank,
Patterns of Discontinuous Innovation
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Strategic advantage through innovation
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Evolution of the Bicycle
This resource looks at the idea of innovation life cycles and patterns of change, using the example of the evolution of the bicycle from many experiments through to the emergence of a dominant design Click to view case study: The evolution of the bicycle