Overcoming the Valley of Death in a Service Organisation: Designing Innovation Implementation

Large and mature organisations, with their access to knowledge, capital and customers, are perfectly positioned to walk the road from invention to innovation; to turn promising breakthrough technologies and creative concepts into profitable and scalable business opportunities. However, these organisations rarely generate winds of creative...

Exploring the Fourth Order: Designing Organisational Infrastructure. In Research Perspectives in the Era of Transformations

Companies are organised to fulfil two distinctive functions: efficient and resilient exploitation of current business and parallel exploration of new possibilities. For the latter,<br/>companies require strong organisational infrastructure such as team compositions and functional structures to ensure exploration remains effective. This paper...

Overcoming the Valley of Death: A Design Innovation Perspective

In large organisations, innovation activities are often located in separate departments, centres or studios. These departments aim to produce prototypes of solutions to the problems of operational business owners. However, too often these concepts remain in the prototype stage: they never cross the valley of death to become implemented.<br/>A...

Overcoming the Valley of Death: A Design Innovation Perspective

In large organisations, innovation activities are often located in separate departments, centres or studios. These departments aim to produce prototypes of solutions to the problems of operational business owners. However, too often these concepts remain in the prototype stage: they never cross the valley of death to become implemented.<br/>A...

Using Dynamic Capabilities in an actionable tool as a vehicle to initiate design-driven innovation

In order to become more innovative, corporations are increasingly turning to design-driven innovation capabilities. These capabilities are dynamic: they influence the way companies run their business and how companies create, capture and deliver value. Building design capabilities has proven difficult, given the tacit nature of design practice...