{"id":2789,"date":"2023-10-06T09:59:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T07:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucianoattolico.it\/blog\/the-two-engines-of-innovation-kaizen-vs-kaikaku\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T11:52:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T10:52:13","slug":"the-two-engines-of-innovation-kaizen-vs-kaikaku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucianoattolico.it\/en\/blog\/the-two-engines-of-innovation-kaizen-vs-kaikaku\/","title":{"rendered":"The two engines of innovation: kaizen vs kaikaku"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is a lot of talk about <strong>innovation<\/strong> as a key driver of growth, but never before has it been so easy to get its approach and implementation wrong.<br\/><br\/>Making available <strong>new<\/strong> <strong>products<\/strong> and <strong>services<\/strong>, hastily deemed innovative, or having digitized and automated pieces of the business, does not automatically mean having originated a real <strong>high-impact<\/strong> <strong>innovation<\/strong> that leaves a tangible and relevant mark on the market and on the company&#8217;s value growth.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s have clarity. Companies must always have two &#8220;engines&#8221; accessed to stay in the air and travel safely.<br\/><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The two engines of innovation in the enterprise<\/h2>\n\n<p>The first engine is that of the <strong>current business.<\/strong><br\/>It is the one that must ensure the management and <strong>continuous<\/strong> <strong>improvement<\/strong> of current products and services, unceasingly adapting them to the new needs of the market and the company, making the design, development, production and sales systems increasingly\u0300 efficient. <br\/>The watchword for this first business engine is the Japanese term <em><strong>kaizen<\/strong><\/em>, incremental change.<\/p>\n\n<p>The second engine is that of<strong>high-impact innovation.<\/strong><br\/>It is the one that has to think about the future of the company in discontinuous terms from what has been done so far. Products, services, business models, technologies, organizational arrangements that succeed in significantly growing the company, not necessarily on the same path traveled so far. <br\/>The buzzword here is the Japanese term <strong><em>kaikaku<\/em><\/strong>, radical change.<br\/><br\/>Keeping both engines accessible and well functioning is not easy because they have different forms of organization and governance, metrics, processes, and mindsets.<br\/><br\/>I would add a <strong>caveat<\/strong>: <strong>High-impact innovation is not something to be relegated to a specific function, while the vast majority of other people stay to &#8220;do the serious stuff.&#8221;<\/strong><br\/><br\/>High-impact innovation must always be a <strong>multidisciplinary<\/strong> business game to be extended to all possible internal and external resources that can make a relevant contribution, and with a high energy level. Never a talk for an intimate few.<\/p>\n\n<p><br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In-company training must therefore be designed as a continuous &#8220;training&#8221; process, with cycles of study, field experimentation, feedback and insights, until a change in individual behavior is achieved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[80,74,69,71,78,72,76],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-management-en","tag-development-of-potential","tag-improvement","tag-lean-en","tag-management-en","tag-personal-development","tag-personal-growth","tag-training"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The two 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