When you look at your cell phone do you ever ask yourself, how did they come up with this idea? There are companies that have systems specifically targeting innovation development; it allows employees to be in an environment that will help stimulate ideas for that will help enhance the company’s product(s). This type of system is called innovation architecture. According to ‘textbook’, “It’s a blueprint for strategic and industry transformation—an explicit and widely shared point of view about how the company will strive to differentiate itself now, and five to ten years into the future” (Dryer & Gregersen, 2009). This system is extremely beneficial to organizations because it increases their ability to enhance their product, that will fit …show more content…
How a company creates an innovation architecture is by taking a range of ideas, putting them into groups, and lastly sculpting the innovation architecture (Dryer & Gregersen, 2009). An innovation architecture should show organizations where they will be going and how are they going to get their (Dryer & Gregersen, 2009). Organization such as Nokia, Apple, and Nike have developed their own innovation architecture process that works for their organizations. Nokia is a well-known company in the technology industry, their goal like most companies is to find new opportunities of growth. In the 1990s, Nokia changed the process of the company to a new direction. They wanted to involve the entire company by creating an inclusive system that focuses on strategy innovation (Dryer & Gregersen, 2009) According to ‘textbook’, “As Chris Jackson, former head of strategy development at Nokia, put it, “By engaging more people, the ability to implement strategy becomes more viable.”” (Dryer & Gregersen, 2009, pg 155). It took team work, time, and strategy for Nokia to decide what type of company they wanted to become. Nokia created an …show more content…
Apple and Nokia, both value teamwork and having the company involved. Based of research, I have learned that innovation architecture can be very beneficial to companies and that not every company with have the same type of strategy. They all create one that they feel works best for the company. Innovation architecture, allows companies to take a lot idea, and narrow them down to what seems best for their targeted goals are for the future of the company. What process and system might actually stifle innovation and intrapreneurship are ones that are view as permanent, which does not allow the organization those companies to be open for change. They need to be opened for change within the innovation architecture because a new idea or direction may develop, that could benefit the companies’ enhancement and success. I also learned that innovation architecture takes time to create because it has to be a clear dialogue, that both the company can understand and has reachable goals. (Dryer & Gregersen, 2009). The type of structures or process I would use are the one similar to Nokia; which are created three themes that represent the foundation of the structure, to help narrow down ideas that are focus on the goals of the product(s). I would also want the culture to be diversified based off specialization, the environment
Innovation has rapidly assumed a position of prominence in world competition on a global scale. To compete in this environment, organizations need a level of innovation. As competition becomes more global and time-based, organizations must develop and deliver new and superior products or services in less time. The challenge for modern organizations is to revitalize them so they can successfully and continuously develop newer products and enhance business development.
Innovation, what is innovation? Innovation is the creation and implementation of new ideas, methods, or strategies that facilitate a process, add value, or improve quality (Tidd & Bessant, 2013). In fact, innovation is the reason for all the new amenities of today’s 21st century. Moreover, innovation has brought forth new perspectives and ideas that have inspired numerous of businesses to expand and improve their daily operations, increase productivity, resolve dilemmas, and attain a level of success. However, such success cannot be attained without properly examining, planning, embracing, and managing innovation. In other words, organizations must carefully map the process of innovation in order to succeed.
Employees are companies’ wealth of ideas when it comes to innovation. Several companies have recognized the importance of including innovation within their business model. In fact Google allows employees to spend about 20% of their time to create, design and innovate. Hoarty, Gurram & Laurence, E. (2013) recognize that employees play an integral role in innovation. This is because innovation goes beyond new product or service creation; it is the ‘generation, acceptance and implementation of new ideas, processes, products or services Hoarty, Gurram & Laurence, E. (2013).’ Therefore, companies must strive to introduce innovation as part of their culture.
Two recent articles I have read pointed out that “innovation is not a solo act. It’s a unique social phenomenon that requires the contributions of multiple collaborators
Defining ”innovation”could be rather a difficult task as it is a “multi-faceted phenomenon”, and a widely u...
This work begins by firmly anchoring business innovation within our company structure as well as defining innovation focal points that are relevant to our customers and hold growth potential. The key is cultivating a structured network with internal and external experts. This approach forms the foundation of our innovation
In to the article “The Innovation Value Chain”, Hansen and Birkinshaw discussed how the innovation challenges, in reality, are different from one company to another, and they indicated that “ there is no universal solution for organizations wanting to improve their ability to generate, develop, and disseminate new ideas.” In fact, I think this is the truth because organizations are different in the size, capacities, management systems, culture, and to what extend employees’ skills. Therefore, good solutions for one company’s challenges not necessary work for another one even if they are at the same level, and, sometimes in this same company, a successful solution that works for one situation might be wasteful or even harmful. In the article,
Basically transformation strategies are quite complicated because the process of innovation in any business environments will depends on it. We knows that in order to develop a business environment that supports the activities of innovation, most of the organizations will require an extensive changes in terms of the culture and systems of the organizational itself. The process can be difficult to achieve and also can caused disruptive, cost overflowing and time consuming. The innovation can give the potential of long term benefits but most of organizations more interested in short terms gains and cost reductions. The...
An innovative organizational structure is characterized by being flexible, adaptable, and open to experimenting with new ideas. Every aspect of their company can fit up under this organizational structure. Their lax in use of a formal hierarchy structure and excessive titles contribute to this reasoning. The emphasis they put on developing new ideas and using updated technologies also support this organizational structure.
You can help your firm innovate by creating a culture in which all employees are actively encouraged to put ideas forward. But how do you get the best from people and encourage them to be at their most creative Allocate time for new ideas to emerge. For example each team would have set aside time for brainstorming as well as held regular group workshops and arrange team days out. Each team involved in a brainstorming session is likely to be more effective than the sum of its parts. Individuals within the team can feed off each other exploring, testing and refining ideas. You should also give individuals the space to reflect privately on their work if you think they need it. The teams as well as the company probably took
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This report is mainly based on the case study Emerging Nokia, using the frameworks and concepts we have learned to analyze the case. This report is divided into 5 parts, first is the summary of the case, the second part is about the competition Nokia faced, the third part is the factors that contributed to the success of Nokia, then the challenges Nokia may face in China and the recommendations to them and the last part is the conclusion of the report.
According to the author, Plessis (2007), the complexity of innovation has increased by growth in the amount of knowledge available to organizations as basis for innovation. This statement is agreed by other researchers, Adams and Lamont (2003); Cardinal et al., (2001); Darroch and McNaughton (2002); Pyka (2002) and Shani et al., (2003) who state that innovation is really dependent on the availability of knowledge and therefore the complexity created by the blast of richness and reach of knowledge has to be identified and managed to ensure successful innovation. Besides that, in a previous study that has been conducted by Ruggles, R. & Little R. (1997), they also have the positive opinion about knowledge management and innovation when they assert that innovation as one end to which knowledge management can be applied. Additionally, innovation has been demonstrated to be a key value creator for organizations, in both times of cost cutting and in times of growth. As such, it stands out as one excellent objectiv...
1).Innovation Management:Innovation Management is the form of looking into future, of being creative, imaginative .It is used in the growth of product and also organizational innovation. It also includes tools which allows higher management & engineers to communicate with basic understanding of goals and its processes .Its main focus is to allow the organization to react quickly occurring within an organization, using its efforts to implement new ideas or its products. It also involves persons in contributing to the development of the companies manufacturing and also its marketing. Through development also innovation process can be done. There are two types of process involved in innovation management one is pulled and the other is pushed. Pushed process is the one in which the organization uses its technology to discover profitable applications. Pulled process is the one in which the focus is mainly in developing the efforts to find the solutions. There are two phases in innovation management .First phase includes design of the innovation and second phase includes the implementation. Internal bench marking can be established to measure the innovation. Managers should focus on ones attention on innovation cause to be necessary to infer something from information received on the complexity.