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Agile Innovation Management, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Nov 2011

Agile Innovation Management, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The volume and velocity of innovations are on the increase resulting in increased pressures on every company for attaining, retaining and increasing its market leadership. Many companies need to retool their innovation management processes to address two agility related objectives in order to survive and grow in such a rapidly changing innovation environment. The first objective would be the ability to assemble an innovation team within the shortest possible time. This can only be satisfied by companies that are capable of forming innovation teams rather quickly. The related second objective would be to reduce the I2M (Idea to Market) cycle …


Management Of Technology Deployed In Service Innovations, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

Management Of Technology Deployed In Service Innovations, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

Services form a major portion of the GDP of several nations, especially that of the first world nations. These nations also experience high cost of providing services of different kinds. This has resulted in the displacement of non-customer facing services to countries that can offer them at lower prices. Nations have to be concerned about sustaining their economies even as such off-shoring of services continue to grow. It is therefore important to understand how countries can create those service innovations that will help them retain the growth trajectory of their economies. We believe that the different types of service innovations …


Innovation Engine, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

Innovation Engine, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

This paper describes a meta-model for innovation using an automobile engine as a metaphor. This innovation meta-model is used to manage a collection of innovation models. We develop an algorithm to identify innovations with potential for success using this meta-model. This meta-model can be used by corporations and individuals to identify plausible innovations at any given point in time.


A Maturity Model For Innovation Management, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

A Maturity Model For Innovation Management, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

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Designing The Value Curve For Your Next Innovation, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

Designing The Value Curve For Your Next Innovation, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

This paper introduces an additional feature to the Strategy Canvas and Value Curve that will make innovation designers more effective. The new feature is to let the innovators carry out the designs of their new innovations taking into account both the cost of improving the quality of a parameter that the users value highly and the savings accrued from the drop in provisioning for parameters that users place less emphasis in an innovation.