Innovation Models Flashcards
What are the 8 factors used to compare innovation models?
Consumer needs Industry stance Source of innovation Drivers of innovation Nature of investment Risk of failure Key concepts Related terms
What is the consumer need for a firm driven innovation?
Unproven
What is the consumer need for a user-led innovation?
Proven in the existence of lead-user innovation
What is the consumer need for a cultural innovation?
Proven, even if cultural
What is the industry stance of a firm-driven innovation?
Proactive
What is the industry stance for a user-led innovation?
Reactive
What is the industry stance for a cultural innovation?
Reactive
What is the source of innovation for firm-driven innovations?
Centralised within firms
eg: Apple iPod
What is the source of innovation for user-led innovations?
Distributed across lead-users
eg: GoPro
eg: Levi commuter jeans
What is the source of innovation for cultural innovations?
Distributed across culture, reassembled by innovators
eg: The Phluid Project
What is the driver of innovation in a firm-driven innovation?
Extrinsic motivation
Profit
Radical social change
What is the driver of innovation in a user-led innovation?
Intrinsic motivation
Fun
Initially non-commercial
What is the driver of innovation in a cultural innovation?
Extrinsic motivation
What is the nature of investment for a firm-driven innovation?
High
Borne solely by firms
What is the nature of investment for a user-led innovation?
Distributed
Exploitative
What is the nature of investment for a cultural innovation?
Minimal
What is the risk of failure for a firm-driven innovation?
High
What is the risk of failure for a user-led innovation?
Low
What is the risk of failure for a cultural innovation?
Low
What are the key concepts involved in firm-driven innovation?
Research and Development
Applied Science
Testing
Commercialisation
What are the key concepts involved in user-led innovation?
Innovation by users
Collaborative evaluation
What are the key concepts involved in cultural innovation?
Cultural orthodoxy Social disruption Ideological opportunity Ideology Myth Cultural codes Source material - media myths, brand assets and subcultures
What terms can be related to firm-driven innovations?
Disruptive innovation
Radical technologies
Linear model
What terms can be related to user-led innovations?
User-led innovation
Bottom up innovation
At what point does innovation from the firm start for a user-led innovation?
Collaborative improvement
For a firm-driven innovation, this would usually be at the start in market research stage, but the lead users have done this already for them.
What are the 3 stages involved in a firm-driven innovation? (Von de Ven, 1995)
Idea invention
- Needs/problems
- Research
Development
- Design
- Commercialise
Adoption/Diffusion
- Marketing
- Distribution
- Promotion
What are the 3 stages involved in a user-led innovation?
Innovation by users
Free revealing followed by collaborative improvement
Peer-to-peer diffusion
What are the advantages of user-led innovation?
Consumer needs are clear and concrete
Users take on costs of testing and development
Risk free
What are the disadvantages of user-led innovation?
Hard to prevent competition doing similar
Reactive models cannot build a big picture like disruptive innovations
Hard to predict
What are the advantages of firm-driven innovation?
First mover advantage (Lieberman and Montgomery, 1988)
Blue ocean strategy (Chan, Kim and mauborgne, 2005)
Organisational memory can mean a failure could used to innovate later down the line
Create and capture a new demand in an uncontested market space
What are the disadvantages of firm-driven innovation?
Costly
No evidence of consumer needs - can be over stated, biased within the industry
Commercialisation treated as a fourth stage which comes too late
Assumes organisations are the sole source of innovation
Lack of identity value of new products and services eg: Harley Davidson
What are the sources of innovative opportunity for firm-driven innovations?
1) PROCESS NEEDS (Peter Drucker)
- Perfect a process that already exists
eg: 1909 Bell Telephone projected the trend for the growth in the American population and number of operators required to handle calls - lead to switchboards requiring automation
2) DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES
- Baby boomers
- What values, ideals and struggles do these groups face?
eg: Monzo - 20-35s struggling to budget when wages are decreasing and rent prices are increasing
3) NEW SPECIALISED KNOWLEDGE
New forms of scientific or technical knowledge making new forms of living possible
Innovator has to create a want for users to be receptive as the ideals are so radical
eg: iPhone
What are the generic steps for FDM?
Firms look to discover needs to develop new products and services
Conduct research to see if it is feasible through technical and market assessments
Developing prototypes and testing
Commercialise
Why was FDM so popular in post-war 1950s America?
Post war consumer culture saw rise of cultural engineering
Marketers sold people the life they should lead
Marketing used shared interests to bind people together (Baritz, 1989)
People trusted organisations to care for them therefore corporations had the power to shape consumers desires, ideals and preferences
Why is FDM now a by-product of its era?
FDM denied people the freedom to choose - contradiction of having freedom which was picked up by critics and consumers alike (White, 1956, Mills 1953).
Death of cultural engineering and emergence of a branding steeped in postmodernism
People wanted to consumer brands that had identity value in search of their own sovereignty
eg: VW Beetle
Given that FDM is a by-product of its era, why is firm-driven innovation still utilised today and under which circumstances?
1) Where there are ASYMMETRIES in key resources, knowledge, expertise and capital between the industry and consumers
Firms stockpile knowledge through patents, draw on expertise and maintain market power
eg: Automotive industry
eg: Pharmaceutical industry
eg: Tech industry
2) Where organisations EXPLOIT consumer dependencies and lack of substitutes
Unable to use others without substantial switching costs - they are locked in (Schumpeter, 1934)
eg: Apple having iMessage, iCloud, Mac etc
eg: Google
Costs endured include search costs, loyalty cost and dependence on complementary products and services (Harrison et al, 2012)
At what point of the product life cycle does user-led innovation occur?
Gap between need recognition and organisations taking advantage
Firms are involved after lead-users product prototypes to meet their own needs and wants
When should firms jump in to improve and commercialise products?
After the lead user has created a prototype, collaborated with others to improve the overall product.