Management of innovation | Types of innovation

Beyond which the innovation can come from different scopes (concepts of business, forms of organization, etc.) and not only of products and services, or the technology and the I+D, we can classify the enterprise innovations in two blocks totally differentiated: the incrementales and the radicals

Incremental Innovation

The incrementales innovations have to do with the improvement and optimization of products, services, processes of production, etc., that take to products or more advanced services, but with the same concept that those that precedes them. A paradigmático example is the one of máquinillas to shave, that first takes control of a leaf, later with two, later with two and batteries... and what it will come in the future. This process is the result of technological advances and product innovations, but that do not change to the basic concept of the product or original service.

Disruptive innovation

The radical or disruptive innovation comes, more than to optimize what already we have, to imagine what it has not been never. "to rethink" reality DES of a perspective different from that we are customary in our previous experiences. to face the things without apriorities nor prejudices. For that reason it is reason why, contrary to which it thinks, the greater innovations in concept, the great transformations of sectors, are produced normally by external people to the sector, by which, to say it somehow, "they are not contaminated" by the traditional forms to do. The radical innovations are those that produce the great transformations, but require a type different from thought, of which we will speak in the next article.