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Project Management: 2 Approaches

 

Uncertainty Levels

 

Incremental

Radical   >>>

Technical

Low

High

Market

Low

High

Organizational

Low

High

Resources

Low

High

 

 

Incremental versus Radical Innovation1

 

Incremental

Radical

Business Case

Detailed plan can be developed at the beginning of the process

Business model and plan evolves through discovery-based market learning

Key Players

Formal cross-functional teams

Cross-functional individuals, informal networks

Process

Formal, phase-gate model

Informal, flexible model at early stages due to high uncertainties  formal at later stages after uncertainties have been reduced

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Incremental Innovation Projects

Incremental innovation projects, due to low levels of uncertainties, are usually follow the orderly process:

  • A potential marketable improvement to an existing product/service/process is quickly placed within a clearly defined, time-tested process designed to prove or disprove its value to the company

  • The process has organizational sponsorship, funding, and the assignment of a development team

  • Development and commercialization are directed along a formal phase-gate process

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Radical Innovation Projects

Radical innovation projects, due to high levels of uncertainties, cannot be described by this orderly process. "Even though the radical innovation life cycle includes many of the same sets of activities and decision points, the reality of managing the process is strikingly different for radical versus incremental innovation."1  >>>

General characteristics of the radical innovation life cycle:

  • long-term, highly uncertain and unpredictable

  • sporadic – starts and stops, dead ends and revivals  >>>

  • nonlinear – detours, recycling back through activities in response to discontinuities and setbacks

  • stochastic – waxing and waning of interest and funding, key players come and go, priorities change

  • context dependent – corporate culture, history, personalities, informal relations, and experience all create a mix of accelerating and retarding factors.1  >>>

Synergize Incremental and Radical Innovations

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Business e-Coach Kore 10 Innovative Thinking Tools

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Case Studies Silicon Valley

To decide if their innovation portfolio has enough stretch, Silicon Valley firms assess the overall balance between revolutionary and evolutionary initiatives. Corporate leaders continually ask, how much does the portfolio push the industry frontiers, and where the company will be positioned a year or two from now if it executes its innovation portfolio properly... More

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Case Studies General Electric (GE)

"Shun the incremental, and look for the quantum leap," urged Jack Welch, the former legendary CEO of GE, other leaders at the company. Live productivity and quality, but also make surprise moves ‒ shock your rivals. Shake things up while other look on from the sidelines, sitting idly by while you knock your competitors for a loop. The three critical ingredients of the quantum leap are surprise, boldness, and shock... More

 

 

  

 

References:

1. Radical Innovation, Harvard Business School