The economies all over the world are driven by knowledge and innovation, and both these go hand in hand. Since the knowledge is responsible for producing endeavor’s to take the advantage of ideas, data and the technologies, to make the organization’s improve their working and gain the competitive advantage that everybody longs for. Knowledge management is a developing body of management, that comprises of the collaboration and analysis of tools, methods, techniques and the values that the organization’s can make use of, for creating, developing and applying the knowledge. They also make use of it for getting a return on the intellectual assets of the organization. For this, the organization’s need to continuously adapt to the ever changing and evolving business environment, and minimize the time that is taken for the development of a product till it reaches the hands of the customers. This requires the ability of problem solving Continue reading
Modern Management Concepts
Critical Constraints that Act to Impede Adaptive Innovation in Organizations
Innovation in organization’s is done to ensure that the products and services provided by a company are unique from its competitors. The uniqueness of the products and services can help an organization gain a competitive advantage in the market. Organizational innovation has certain advantages that can be used for increasing revenue and reputation. One such advantage is the fact that the employees working in the organization can be skillful and develop creative knowledge about the manner in which they can approach the activities of an organization. The employees that can help the organization’s to increase its productivity and efficiency can gain more than one skill and competence. However, some experts countered the process of innovation stating that the weakness of innovation includes the fact that changes in organization’s need to be made for the implementation of innovation. These changes can be negative for the employees in a way that disruption Continue reading
The Jugaad Approach to Innovation
The term ‘jugaad’ signifies the importance of implying the innovation process in the workplaces. This helps the organizations to be innovative in their working zones and inspires them to bring in the changes that will be elemental for their success. The concept of ‘jugaad’ is a very important one in the Indian managerial practices. This certainly means the approaches to innovation. This is a Hindi word and this reflects how the innovation practices could lead to the success of the organizations. In India, the workplaces are totally constrained with the diverse workforces. The harsh problematic situations should be overcome by the innovative approaches within the organization and effective solutions should be addressed despite having very limited resources. There have been all kinds of lacks in India regarding the resources, proper workforce, training of the employees and many other things. However, the services cannot be stopped in spite of these problems. Continue reading
Relational Leadership Paradigm – Five Practices of Exemplary Leaders
Effective leadership is about creating reciprocal relationships between the leader and followers, subordinates, or constituents that in turn creates the foundation for organizational and group success. The Kouzes and Posner’s Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership Model has been noted for its contributions to the Relational Leadership paradigm. Kouzes and Posner (1987) conducted research in the area of “personal best” leadership experiences. They developed a “Personal-Best Leadership Experience” questionnaire, asked thousands of managers to complete the questionnaire, and conducted many follow-up interviews to gather additional information. The personal-best questionnaire asked managers to pick a project, program, or event that they characterized as their “personal-best” leadership experience. After analyzing the data collected from questionnaires and interviews, Kouzes and Posner found that despite the variety in situations and types of leadership experiences, similar patterns were identified related to actions taken by the leaders during the experience. Through the analysis process they identified “Five Continue reading
Managing the Innovation Process
Innovation in nowadays is the most important competitive advantage for a company. The future of many businesses depends on their ability to innovate, to be ahead of their competitors. Organisations have to go through a process of practice, mistakes and to bring together different knowledge, skills and ideas to manage innovation process to success. The word innovation comes from the Latin word “innovare”, which means “to make something new”. Innovation is a deceptive thing. People usually relate it to a development of a new or better product or process, but it is only one part of process called innovation. Innovation is a process, which has to be established in the company for continued enhancement. In reality, a view of innovation as a single action can never make the company to succeed in the long run. There are two different types of innovation; radical and incremental. Incremental innovation consists of small Continue reading
Sustaining and Disruptive Technologies
In 1997, the best-selling book, “The Innovator’s Dilemma” Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen came up with two basic categories of technologies: sustaining and disruptive. Christensen in his sequel, “The Innovators Solution” has changed the term disruptive technology to “disruptive innovation” to accentuate that it is not exactly the technology that is disruptive but the strategy of the innovation that leads to disruption. Read More: The Innovator’s Dilemma Sustaining Technologies Sustaining Technologies is an incremental increase in the features or performance for an established product. Some sustaining technologies can be discontinuous or radical in nature, while others are of incremental nature. They basically rely on improvements along with the dimensions of performance in an already established technology. We can see some significant percentages of the innovations we come across are sustaining innovations. We can consider an example of desktop computers. The significant natures of computers have not changed since Continue reading