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Title: Strategic Management - The Innovation Process
Description: Notes on the strategic process of innovation used by managers/leaders. Used in second year of accounting & finance degree.

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Innovation Process
Search – How can we find opportunities for innovation?
Select – What are we going to do and why?
Implement – How are we going to make it happen?
Capture – How are we going to get the benefits from it?
Fluid Phase – Exploration, uncertainty (high product innovation)
Transitional Phase – Dominant design (high process innovation)
Mature Phase – Standardisation, integration
Technology push vs
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Product vs
...

Technological vs
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Open – Rely on organisation’s internal resources or import/export
organisational knowledge?
First Mover or Late Mover?
First mover advantages:


Greater expertise through experience



Volumes for mass producing and bulk purchasing



Access to raw materials, skilled labour or components



Good reputation and dominant brand name



Buyer switching costs means customers are locked in

Late mover advantages:


Imitate at a lower cost



Experience and knowledge through observation (spend less on R&D)

Innovation Benefits and Risks
Benefits:


Substantial future growth



Competitive advantage



Ability to leapfrog major competitors

Risks:


Costs of development



Time scales for success



Unpredictability of take-up



Lack of competence



Organisational disruption

The Innovative Organisation



Top management commitment



Mechanisms for recognising and developing new ideas



Resources: funding, expertise, organisational slack



Reward systems



Control systems and culture to allow mavericks experimentation and
failure

Entrepreneurial Strategy
Drivers:


Imagination



Ideas



Invention



Innovation

Methods:


Technology



Innovation



New product and service development


Title: Strategic Management - The Innovation Process
Description: Notes on the strategic process of innovation used by managers/leaders. Used in second year of accounting & finance degree.