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Pathways to Innovative Performance for SMEs

During the first few industrial revolutions, the standard business practice for achieving innovative performance was a reliance on internal capabilities and resources. Today, Industry 4.0 has emerged due to the evolution of technology. New technologies mean that organisational resources extend beyond the bounds of the business. Being more open to utilising external resources can be […]

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Does failure really lead to learning and innovation?

Innovation and failure There is a saying in business about failure. You are going to fail. Many times. So fail fast and learn fast. The standard rhetoric around failure and organisations encountering problems and disruptions are that it invariably leads to innovative problem-solving and innovation. The question is whether this idea that failure leads to […]

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Is Laissez-faire leadership really the leadership style to avoid? – New study

New research about Laissez-faire leadership may challenge your previous thoughts and ideas about this style of leadership and whether it really is as bad as it is held out to be. Nature of Leadership The nature or style of leadership in organisations has been shown in many, many studies to have a significant impact on […]

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in The Oxford Review Encyclopaedia of Terms by David Wilkinson

Frugal Innovation: Definition and Explanation

What is frugal innovation? Frugal innovation refers to low-cost new products, methods and designs that have been created for or come out of what is known as the bottom of the pyramid or the unserved lower end of the mass-market. The bottom of the pyramid The idea of the bottom of the pyramid or unserved […]

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Podcast: developing innovative work behaviours across an organisation

Ep 6 of the Oxford Review Podcast looking at a new study about How to develop innovative work behaviours across an organisation

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in Blog , Organisational Development , Research by David Wilkinson
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How to Develop Innovative Work Behaviours through Self-Leadership

Developing innovative work behaviours using self-leadership As the pace of change picks up, organisations across the globe are looking not only to deal with change in a positive and productive manner, but also improve performance, build competitive advantage, be innovative, profitable and sustainable. As a result, organisations and companies are constantly reaching out for methods […]

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in Blog , Organisational Development by David Wilkinson
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Innovation capacity: how to develop it in your organisation

Innovation capacity is an important concept for any organisation or company, no matter how small or large. The question is what helps to develop greater levels of innovation capacity? Organisations are complex amalgamations of many factors all of which have to come together to produce the outcomes the organisation desires. Research into connections between multiple […]

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in Blog , Research by David Wilkinson
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This weeks Briefings: Why introverts rarely emerge as leaders and The conditions for open innovation

This Week’s Research Briefings This week we sent out the following research briefings to our members: What creates the conditions for open innovation in an organisation Keywords: open innovation, innovation, external knowledge, knowledge management, collaboration, openness, learning, organisational flexibility, entrepreneurial orientation, technology, reward system, incentives One of the hot topics at the moment is […]

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HR Devolvement and Developing innovative work behaviours through self-leadership

Last week members received the following research briefings: HR Devolvement Keywords: Human resources, HRM, HR devolvement, line management, training, devolvement, decentralisation One of the trends that is occurring in organisations around the world is the devolvement and decentralisation of HR. Coupled with trends in automation and artificial intelligence (AI), this trend strongly suggests that there […]

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in The Oxford Review Encyclopaedia of Terms by David Wilkinson

Open Innovation: definition and explanation

Open Innovation What is open innovation? The term open innovation means a situation where an organisation doesn’t just rely on their own internal knowledge, sources and resources (such as their own staff or R&D for example) for innovation (of products, services, business models, processes etc.) but also uses multiple external sources (such as customer feedback, […]

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