Innovation occurs along a continuum from maintaining and improving the already existing (incremental innovation) to entering novel regime in terms of technology, meaning or business model (radical innovation). Both ends of the continuum require particular capabilities and human characteristics in order to get accomplished properly. As innovation activities are often embedded in a portfolio approach across this continuum, innovation management depends on integrating and balancing opposite requirements.
Sari Stenfors on 31 May 12visionary thoughts from Steve Jobs already in 1985. Steve Jobs describes how humans are slow in adapting new technologie. He describes how users do things from old paradigms with the new technologies without taking advantage of their full capacity.
