Six Types of Innovation

By Jennifer Goddard | October 2, 2008

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Suzi Dafnis is Community Director of the Australian Businesswomen's Network.
Yvonne Adele helps organisations build a culture of ideas by teaching people at all levels to access their untapped creative thinking skills.

Innovation is not just about brand new products. There are many places where you can be innovative and often the context helps define innovation.

The six focus areas for innovation are:

  • Product — what we produce and sell
  • Service — exceeding customer expectations
  • Process — continuous improvement of how we do things
  • Management — business strategies, systems and structures
  • Open — working beyond boundaries and collaborating globally
  • Value —  creating unique value that eliminates the cost to compete

Looking through this list, consider where you need to focus your innovative efforts right now and write down a couple of project ideas/potential focus areas. Is there anything you would add to the list?

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RE: Six Types of Innovation
A little more details:

offering,platform,solutions,customes,customer experience,value capture,processes,organization,supply chain,presence,networking and brand.
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jorgebarba
10/02/2008 10:14 PM

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